“You Don’t Look Irish”: A Reading at USF

A Reading And Conversation with Multiracial Writers of Irish Heritage at USF. “You don’t look Irish!” is a comment some of the featured authors have heard about their Irish heritage, if they are bi-racial or multi-racial. Words like these, from a schoolteacher, prompted Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu to write about the experience of growing up as an Irish-Japanese American. A similar comment to Leslie Ryan’s first grader son from a Mom at school, prompted her to write her children’s book “I am Flippish” (Filipino-Irish). During our reading you’ll hear from writers of various multi-racial backgrounds, all of whom claim Irish heritage. Sometimes the authors’ writing deals head on with heritage, at other times the theme of heritage is just part of who the writer is. Come and listen to: Dylan Amaro-McIntyre, Caroline Mar, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, and Clare Ramsaran, four very different writers and join in the conversation about what Irish heritage “looks like” in the 21st Century.

“You Don’t Look Irish”: A Reading And Conversation with Multiracial Writers of Irish Heritage

University of San Francisco, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, 2130 Fulton Street @ Parker Street, San Francisco (right next to St. Ignatius Church)
Free – donations welcome to Irish-American Crossroads Festival