dougdevaney

Nathan Mannion

“Migration’s never going to stop. It’s a universal part of our identity.”

“Connection. Human connection.”

“No, no, no, no, no. Where are you really from?”

“I’m a black British woman of Irish-Nigerian heritage, thank you very much.”

“This is an itch you can’t scratch.”

“I think we carry our history with us. It’s a burden. It’s a celebration.”

“It’s a broken history, isn’t it? And with that you get a lot of secrets.”

“Diaspora as a word is interesting. It’s interesting that the Irish adopted it.”

“For me it’s so much to do with family…”

“I definitely do have a kind of golden thread linking me to Ireland…”