Where are You Really From? Brannigan Tim
Where are You Really From? Brannigan Tim Born into a white, devoutly Catholic Belfast family, Peggy Brannigan was shattered when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a…
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Where are You Really From? Brannigan Tim
Born into a white, devoutly Catholic Belfast family, Peggy Brannigan was shattered when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a black medical student. When baby Tim was born hospital staff smuggled him into St Joseph s Baby Home and told the rest of the Brannigan family that the baby had been stillborn. Unwilling to have an abortion or to have the baby adopted, but aware that having a black baby would cause a scandal, Peggy came up with an audacious plan to keep her child.
It was 1966. One year later, Peggy adopted Tim and brought him to live with her husband and their three sons in the Falls Road Area of Belfast. Told here for the first time, Where Are You Really From?
is Tim s extrordinary story of growing up black in Belfast and as part of a republican family living at the centre of a vicious and prolonged bloody conflict. It s a story of racial prejudice,