Am I Irish Yet?

Ballina Fringe Festival - our next festival runs 3-12 October 2025!Ballina Fringe Festival is an artistic exploration of life lived on the edge of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way served up in a festival of words, art and music  from 3-12 October in association with the Ice House Hotel & Spa. Join us as we dip and weave our way though exceptional art, musical entertainment, cultural  discoveries, tales well told and lyrical words that dance through poetry.

Ballina Fringe Festival

What happens when a second-generation Irish woman comes home & starts asking.....AM I IRISH YET?

Ballina Arts Centre

A one-woman show by author Kate Kerrigan. I always wanted to be ‘Irish’. Stone walls, green fields, miraculous medals, Tayto crisps, red lemonade - they all just felt like ‘me’. But being bought up in London as second generation Irish during the 70s/80s things just weren’t that simple.In England we were the ‘bombing Irish’ mistrusted and abused. In Ireland we were the English cousins - the subjects of hurtful, teasing antipathy.All through my childhood and teens, I longed for Irishness. But no matter how many of the songs I sang or poems I learned - I was only ever a plastic paddy, a fake. Ireland was the teenage crush who didn’t love me back and, like an infatuated teen, I clung on. In my twenties the craving was so strong I left behind a successful life in London to move here in search of the answer to who I was. 35 years later, two Irish children and Irish husband and a career as an ‘Irish writer’ I am still wondering ... Am I Irish Yet?

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