Shelley Corcoran The Most Irish Person

€12.99

Code 9781782189343

Description

Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 30 Apr 2023

Delightful and relatable....a perfect story about the beauty of multicultural Ireland. Una Healy (TV Presenter, Singer and Mom).

A beautiful narrative of how we embrace our diverse ethnicities as well as our shared indentity in Ireland. Uruemu Adejinmi (First African Female Mayor in the Republic of Ireland and Mom).

About the Author

Shelley Corcoran is also a photographer and the idea of writing ‘The Most Irish Person’ came about when photographing the junior infants in Longford, for the Longford Leader newspaper. She said “I noticed the wonderful cultural diversity that exists within each school and thought how lucky it was for all these little 4 to 5-year-olds to be able to experience growing up with Irish heritage and at the same time embracing all these different cultures in their classroom.

The age range of the book is for 3 to 8 years olds. She believes that all children growing up in Ireland can relate to her book, as they are living it every single day. “They know children that may have moved to Ireland from Italy or a friend that has a French father, or maybe a classmate that was born in Ireland to Polish parents or perhaps a school friend with a Nigerian mother and so on”. She goes onto say that all the nationalities that are mentioned in her book sit beside each other and play in the playground together daily. 

Angelika Sowul illustrated the book. Angelika is originally from Poland and moved to Longford when she was young, Shelley believes she is a perfect example of what the book is about. The children’s photographs that appear on the Instagram page @the_most_irish_person_book are all local children living in Longford. Former mayor of Longford, Uruemu Adejinmi (the first African female mayor in the Republic of Ireland) has strongly endorsed the book.

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