Download or read book Autobiography of an Irish traveller written by Irish traveller and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Travellers written by Sharon Bohn Gmelch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Nan written by Sharon Bohn Gmelch and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book Autobiography of an Irish Traveller written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autobiography of an Irish Traveller written by Irish Traveller and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... Whenever we became attached to the vanguard, then, indeed, I found myself in congenial society; because there was a volunteer corps of gentlemen in that part of the army, many of whom had been my intimate acquaintances at Philadelphia; and we now renewed our former friendship. They were a set of young bachelors; merry fellows, who were determined to be happy under all the vicissitudes of a soldier's life; and performed a campaign of about three hundred and forty English miles, and back again, on foot, with a cheerfulness and courage truly remarkable for men who had been educated in the lap of luxury. It has been previously stated, that we were employed to quell an insurrection which commenced in the most western parts of the province; the army, therefore, penetrated as far as Washington, and from thence to Fort Pitt, an inconsiderable town at the confluence of the rivers Alleghany and Monangahela, which by their union form the great stream of the Ohio, remarkable for its depth, rapidity, and the fertility of its banks. Our campaign began at the commencement of the autumn, but did not close until the winter was nearly finished. In passing to the westward, we crossed the Blue Mountains, called by the common people the "Blue Ridge." They extend from south-west to north-east (lessening towards the north), throughout the whole extent of the continent of America. On the northern side of these mountains, in the month of October, the snow lay several inches thick, and winter reigned in all its severity at their summits; but ere we had descended one diird on the southern and western side, spring regaled our senses with its accompanying verdure and flowers. Half way down the declivity we found English raspberries and strawberries in abundance; and...
Download or read book Tinkers written by Mary Burke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure's cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge's empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the 'tinker' fantasy that has shaped contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Traveler as lovable 'white trash' rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the 'tinker' is much more central to Irish, Northern Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognised.
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Download or read book Autobiography of an Irish Traveller written by Irish Traveller and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book My Life on the Road written by Nan Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the sorrows and joys of the life of an Irish Traveller.
Download or read book King of the Gypsies written by Bartley Gorman with Peter Walsh and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fatal Roots written by Sheila Connolly and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–bestselling author This exciting new installment in the County Cork Mystery series has “plenty for cozy lovers to enjoy” and drips with the charm—and menace—of its atmospheric Irish setting (New York Journal of Books) Some secrets are too big to stay buried... A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan’s. But now, her mother has returned—and she’s brought Maura’s half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura’s door asking about a mystical fairy fort that happens to be located on Maura’s piece of land. The lore indicates that messing with the fort can cause bad luck, and most everyone is telling Maura not to get too involved for fear of its powers, but Maura is curious about her own land, and she definitely doesn't buy into the superstition. Then one of the students disappears after a day of scoping out the fort on Maura’s property. Maura treads carefully, asking the folks around town who might have an idea, but no one wants anything to do with these forts. She has to take matters into her own hand—it’s her land, after all. But when she uncovers a decades-old corpse buried in the center of the fort, nothing is for certain.
Download or read book Unsettled written by Rosaleen McDonagh and published by Skein Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosaleen McDonagh writes fearlessly about a diverse experience of being Irish. 'Unsettled' explores racism, ableism, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community, family and friendship. As an Irish Traveller writing from a feminist perspective, McDonagh's essays are rich and complex, raw and honest, and, above all else, uncompromising.
Download or read book Growing Up Travelling written by Jamie Johnson and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between freedom and ostracism: The world of the Irish Traveller Children
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Download or read book Irish Travellers written by Mike Carroll and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
