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Defying the exclusionary homogeneity of Irish whiteness: mixed-race children in Irish industrial schools in the twentieth century

Pages 1456-1477 | Received 28 Feb 2022, Accepted 04 Oct 2022, Published online: 26 Oct 2022

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