“Hey, look at the American over there….” “Go back to your own country, you don’t belong here” “Are you an immigrant of some sort?” “Stop lying about being Irish, you’re a yank, just own up to it” “You’ve made up so many excuses for yourself that you have actually started to believe them” From the age of three years old, I used to binge watch Friends most afternoons with my Nan when she was alive. They were moments that I would do anything to re-live again, but little did I know how great an impact those programmes would have on myself as a person in the years to come. As I grew a little older to the age of four and five, Nickelodeon became a huge part of my childhood. Shows like Drake and Josh, Neds declassified school survival guide and Zoey 101 were TV programmes that I watched for hours on end. It wasn’t until the first comment about my accent was passed at the age of 6 that I started to turn against myself. I was always degraded for sounding different; people made me ...