{"product_id":"nanny-ma-and-me-an-irish-story-of-family-race-and-home","title":"Jade Jordan: Nanny, Ma and me: An Irish story of family, race and home [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the experiences of one family of colour in Ireland today. Most of all, I just want to start a conversation, because once people come together to talk, the possibilities are endless.'\u003c\/i\u003e Jade Jordan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJade Jordan's grandmother, Kathleen, left Ireland for England in the late 1950s to train as a nurse. While there, she fell in love and married a Jamaican man. They had two sons and a daughter, Dominique, and settled in London's diverse Walthamstow. But when Kathleen decided to return home to Dublin, she discovered that the colour of her children's skin set them apart - and that their new lives would be very different to the ones they had known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, in this honest, warm-hearted and often humorous multi-generational memoir, Kathleen, Dominique and her daughter Jade each tell their story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Kathleen's determination to raise her children with love and security in inner-city Dublin, to Dominique's struggle to figure out how she fit in as a young Black teenager, to Jade's own experiences as a Black woman growing up in twenty-first-century Ireland, \u003ci\u003eNanny, Ma \u0026amp; Me \u003c\/i\u003eis a story about race in a country of contradictions. At its heart lies a tale of the power of community, love and three women for whom family is everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jordan, Jade \u0026 Jordan, Dominique \u0026 Jordan, Kathleen","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47580114747731,"sku":"XG81529365009","price":1.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47417460687187,"sku":"XV81529365009","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":42057203941561,"sku":"9781529365009","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/jordan-jade-jordan-dominique-jordan-kathleen-jade-jordan-nanny-ma-and-me-an-irish-story-of-family-race-and-home-2021-paperback-57846013460819.jpg?v=1727214981","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/nanny-ma-and-me-an-irish-story-of-family-race-and-home","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}