Travellers And Ireland

Author : Sharon Bohn Gmelch,George Gmelch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253014610

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Irish Travellers by Sharon Bohn Gmelch,George Gmelch Pdf

Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had known decades before—shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs showing the Travellers' former way of life. Many of these images are included in this book, alongside more recent photos and compelling personal narratives that reveal how Traveller lives have changed now that they have left nomadism behind.

Author : Jim Mac Laughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000056856077

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Travellers and Ireland by Jim Mac Laughlin Pdf

Author : Jane Leslie Helleiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802086284

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Irish Travellers by Jane Leslie Helleiner Pdf

Helleiner's study documents anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life as well as the production and reproduction of contemporary Traveller collective identity and culture.

Author : May McCann,Séamas Ó Síocháin,Joseph Ruane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032307277

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Irish Travellers by May McCann,Séamas Ó Síocháin,Joseph Ruane Pdf

This book addresses the culture, history, ethnicity, language and nomadism of the Irish Travellers, who may be compared to the Gypsies of other nations.

Author : Sharon Gmelch
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773592902

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Tinkers and Travellers by Sharon Gmelch Pdf

Author : Mícheál Ó hAodha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066817373

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Irish Travellers by Mícheál Ó hAodha Pdf

The "Traveler question" has been a major source of debate in Irish society for decades, centuries even, and appears no closer to being answered today. For as long as Travelers have roamed the roads of Ireland, they have been subjected to, at best, a sort of mythic, romanticized patronization, and at worst, vilification and outright hostility - but always as the "other" of Irish ethnic identity. Michael Hayes closely examines how images of Travelers have been created and distorted over the centuries, from the nineteenth-century "gipsilorists" to late-twentieth-century anthropological studies.

Author : Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478608820

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Nan by Sharon Bohn Gmelch Pdf

Margaret Mead Award finalist! Nan Donohoe was an Irish Travelling woman, one of Ireland’s indigenous gypsies or “tinkers.” Traditionally, they traveled the countryside making and repairing tinware, sweeping chimneys, selling small household wares, and doing odd-job work. Over time, they came to live on the roadside in trailers and in government-built camps. Told largely in her own voice, Nan’s saga begins in 1919 with her birth in a tent in the Irish Midlands; it follows her life in Ireland and England, in countryside and city slums, through adversity and adventure. Gmelch brings to her task not only the resources of anthropology, but the skill of a sensitive writer and a warmth that allows her to see Nan as a person, not a subject. What emerges is a human story, filled with cruelty and compassion, sorrow and humor, bad luck and good.

Author : Mike Carroll
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721882545

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Irish Travellers by Mike Carroll Pdf

This book contains historical accounts of the Irish American Travellers as seen through their eyes and the eyes of their ancestors. It is a glimpse into a people that have isolated themselves from conventional America. It uses facts and reality to discredit lies and propaganda. If you are ready for the truth, open your mind, and turn the page.

Author : Katharine Quarmby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780741062

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No Place to Call Home by Katharine Quarmby Pdf

The shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a home They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to settle down – but then, as Occupy was taking over Wall Street and London, the vocal Dale Farm community in Essex was evicted from their land. Many did not leave quietly; they put up a legal and at times physical fight. Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby takes us into the heat of the battle, following the Sheridan, McCarthy, Burton and Townsley families before and after the eviction, from Dale Farm to Meriden and other trouble spots. Based on exclusive access over the course of seven years and rich historical research, No Place to Call Home is a stunning narrative of long-sought justice.

Author : Mícheál Ó hAodha
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719083044

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Insubordinate Irish by Mícheál Ó hAodha Pdf

This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travelers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveler as "Other," an "Other" who is perceived as both inside and outside Ireland's collective ideation. Frequently constructed as a group whose cultural tenets are in a dichotomous opposition to that of the "settled" community, this book demonstrates the ambivalence and complexity of the Irish Traveler "Other" in the context of a European postcolonial country. Not only has the construction and representation of Travelers always been less stable and "fixed" than previously supposed, these images have been acted upon and changed by both the Traveler and non-Traveler communities as the situation has demanded. Drawing primarily on little-explored Irish language sources, this volume demonstrates the fluidity of what is often assumed as reified or "fixed." As evidenced in Irish-language cultural sources the image of the Traveler is inextricably linked with the very concept of Irish identity itself. They are simultaneously the same and "Other" and frequently function as exemplars of the hegemony of native Irish culture as set against colonial traditions. This book is an important addition to the Irish Studies canon, in particular as relating to those exciting and unexplored terrains hitherto deemed "marginal" - Traveler Studies, Romani Studies, and Diaspora/Migration Studies to name but a few.

Author : Peter Neville
Publisher : Cassell
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 0304362433

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A Traveller's History of Ireland by Peter Neville Pdf

'This book will be appreciated by visitors who want more historical background than ordinary series guidebooks supply...Highly recommended...' LIBRARY JOURNAL 'For independent, inquisitive travellers traversing the green roads of Ireland, there is no better guide than A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND.' SMALL PRESS Constantly in the news, there are few countries where the background history is so vital to an understanding of its people and culture. A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation's development right up to the present day but also provides an invaluable introduction to this land of poets, saints, eloquent politicians, illustrious soldiers and inspiring rebels. Political, social and industrial history and economics are also well covered. The book includes a comprehensive description of modern Ireland, both North and South, and of its two separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. There is a Historical Gazetteer cross referenced to the main text and particular attention is paid to the classic historical sites, which feature on any visitor's itinerary.

Author : John Ingamells
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300071658

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A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 by John Ingamells Pdf

Compiled from the celebrated archive accumulated by Sir Brinsley Ford, this dictionary identifies over six thousand British and Irish travellers who toured in Italy in the 18th century.

Author : Christopher J. Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1846821312

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Travellers' Accounts as Source-material for Irish Historians by Christopher J. Woods Pdf

"This book is intended as an aid to Irish historians on the use of traveller's accounts as source-material. It consists of a discursive introduction, annotations of over 200 accounts from the years 1635-1948, a select bibliography and indexes of travellers and places. The annotations consist of the usual bibliographical details, identification of the traveller, the purpose and period of his or her travel, the exact itinerary followed, his or her mode of transport, the traveller's observations, and persons encountered. Whereas those who have published on Irish travel writing in recent years have generally seen it as another literary genre suitable for development of concepts of literary scholarship (image, identity, influences, etc.). C. J. Woods sees travel narratives as an important primary source of information - on transport, landscape, the economy, society, religion etc. This guide is invaluable to Irish local historians as a means of identifying those accounts that refer to the dark places in which they are interested." --Book Jacket.

Author : Mathias Oppersdorff
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0815604769

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People of the Road by Mathias Oppersdorff Pdf

Living along country lanes in tents and barrel-top wagons, Travellers have for centuries been a people apart from Irish society. Photographer Mathias Oppersdorff first encountered them twenty-eight years ago in County Kerry at Puck Fair. His photographs—often stark and disturbing, yet always humane—offer a profound look at people at the crossroads of their existence. Although the Travellers themselves now concede that education and settling down are important factors for a good future, the pull of tradition is strong; many Travellers miss the open road and are ill at ease leaving a life that, for centuries, has been uniquely theirs. Oppersdorff's photographs take us through some of the most turbulent times for the Travellers. Although in years past they were defined by their nomadism, more recently many have chosen to live in housing projects and trailer parks, partially due to government-sponsored subsidies. As a result, traditional roadside tent-camps are a thing of the past. The photographer states that the themes revolving around the human condition are his forte. When some of his earlier photographs of the Travellers first appeared in a one-man show in New York City, A. D. Coleman wrote in The New York Times, "[Oppersdorff] is an honest and gutty photographer with much to say."

Author : John M. Kirk,Dónall Ó Baoill
Publisher : Queen's University of Belfast
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124091013

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Travellers and Their Language by John M. Kirk,Dónall Ó Baoill Pdf