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Why More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish?

We chose the slogan for this project as communities were inspired by its empowering and unifying message, with one participant saying, “It says it all”. We want to thank Richy and Taurayne for coining the now iconic slogan and supporting our project.

Taken from a Metro article from 2016.

An Irish-Jamaican couple living in South London have the best response for all the post-Brexit race hate. The pair, from Camberwell, took to the streets of Brixton with their three dogs wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘More blacks, more dogs, more Irish’.

Richard O’Gorman, 36 – who’s originally from Ireland – printed the tongue-in-cheek slogan as the perfect antidote to the ‘No black, no dogs, no Irish’ signs seen around pubs in London, many decades ago. With his girlfriend of Jamaican descent, Taurayne McKen, 28, the two were pictured donning the tops on Instagram and the image has since been shared all around the world.

Taurayne told Metro online that they started out with with just 25 t-shirts to sell, but are now ordering in hundreds to meet demand.

‘She said: ‘My grandfather spoke to me about the history behind the ‘no blacks, no dogs, no Irish’ signs in the Brixton area, so we thought we should put the message out there after Brexit.

Some people don’t understand where the message originally came from, so it’s about educating people.’

Richard first printed the T-shirts six years ago and was pictured wearing it with DJ Swiss from So Solid Crew. But since these new pictures have emerged, T-shirts have been sold in Ireland, the UK, South Africa, Tokyo, New Zealand and Australia. The couple said they will donate a percentage of the sales to the Camden Irish community centre and the Black Cultural Archive in Brixton.

To order a T-shirt visit www.eyerishandjamaican.co.uk