Rosemary Adaser

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‘I lived in a state of pure terror’: Rosemary Adaser, co-founder of the group Mixed Race Irish. Photograph: Joanne O’Brien
Mixed Race Irish: ‘We were the dust to be swept away’

In October 1958, when Rosemary Adaser was admitted, as an 18-month-old, to a mother-and-baby home in Dublin, her admission notes described her as “ill(...)

Carole Brennan, Evon Brennan and Rosemary Adaser, of Mixed Race Irish, who appeared before the justice committee, outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Mixed race Irish in State care subjected to colour specific abuse, Oireachtas told

The Irish State “singularly and spectacularly failed mixed race children” in its care, the Oireachtas justice committee was told yesterday.Carole Bren(...)

Evon Brennan and Rosemary Adaser, two of the founders of Mixed Race Irish, a campaign for the recognition of mixed race Irish people who suffered racist abuse in institutional care.
Mixed race children and their mothers seek to add to inquiry

Last month, during a discussion on the forthcoming commission of investigation into mother-and-baby homes, Anne Ferris put on the Dáil record the expe(...)

Evon Brennan (left) and Rosemary Adaser of Call to Action Mixed Race Irish: want to reach out to other mixed-race ex-institution Irish.
Campaign highlights abuse of mixed-race Irish in institutional care

A campaign has been launched for recognition of mixed-race survivors of institutional abuse who believe they suffered racism while in State care.Rosem(...)