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Nanny, ma and me : an Irish story of family, race and home / Jade Jordan, Dominique Jordan, Kathleen Jordan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2021.Description: 304 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781529365009 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 JOR 23
LOC classification:
  • DA927
Summary: Jade 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. Here, in this honest, warm-hearted and often humorous multi-generational memoir, Kathleen, Dominique and her daughter Jade each tell their story.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Biography 920 JOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17183Y0499

Jade 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. Here, in this honest, warm-hearted and often humorous multi-generational memoir, Kathleen, Dominique and her daughter Jade each tell their story.

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