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Book The Travelling Man and Other Stories

Download or read book The Travelling Man and Other Stories written by National Gypsy Education Council and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travelling Man and Other Stories

Download or read book The Travelling Man and Other Stories written by National Gypsy Education Council and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travelling Man

Download or read book The Travelling Man written by Lady Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yarrow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles de Lint
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780312863937
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Yarrow written by Charles de Lint and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern classic of urban myth and magic.

Book Mulengro

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  • Author : Charles de Lint
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2007-04-01
  • ISBN : 1429911298
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Mulengro written by Charles de Lint and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of magic and murder The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police—but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book  Tinkers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Burke
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2009-07-16
  • ISBN : 0191570613
  • Pages : 344 pages

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.

Book The Travelling Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lady Gregory
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 21 pages

Download or read book The Travelling Man written by Lady Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Song and the Story

Download or read book The Song and the Story written by Isla St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travelling Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lady Gregory
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 15 pages

Download or read book The Travelling Man written by Lady Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travelling Man

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  • Author : Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Travelling Man written by Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Travellers

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  • Author : Jane Leslie Helleiner
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802086280
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Irish Travellers written by Jane Leslie Helleiner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Peggy Seeger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean R. Freedman
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2017-02-03
  • ISBN : 0252099214
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book Peggy Seeger written by Jean R. Freedman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's multifaceted career, from her youth to her pivotal role in the American and British folk revivals, from her instrumental virtuosity to her tireless work on behalf of environmental and feminist causes, from wry reflections on the U.K. folk scene to decades as a songwriter. Freedman also delves into Seeger's fruitful partnership with Ewan MacColl and a multitude of contributions which include creating the renowned Festivals of Fools, founding Blackthorne Records, masterminding the legendary Radio Ballads documentaries, and mentoring performers in the often-fraught atmosphere of The Critics Group. Bracingly candid and as passionate as its subject, Peggy Seeger is the first book-length biography of a life set to music.

Book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tinker in Blue Anchor

Download or read book A Tinker in Blue Anchor written by James Haydock and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a checkered career at sea and on land Leo Mack settles down in Blue Anchor shortly before the Civil War. A solitary man living in Ida Crabtree's boarding house, he earns his living as a tinker but finds his worth and mission when the war begins. As a traveling tinker he carries news of military events to isolated farmhouses and becomes in effect a broadcaster of war news. In time just about every person in the county knows Leo by name but nothing of his background. Isaac Brandimore takes it upon himself to tell Mack's story but dies before the work is finished. Emily Kingston comes forward to salvage the story and finish it, but not before Leo dies. Concluding the project, she observes that Leo Mack in tattered work clothes was "animated in good times and bad by blood and brain and spirit." His death, she tells us, diminished Blue Anchor.

Book The  tinkers  in Irish Literature

Download or read book The tinkers in Irish Literature written by José Lanters and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish travellers or 'tinkers' have appeared as characters in Irish literature since the early nineteenth century. Representations of this semi-nomadic cultural and ethnic minority in works by non-traveller authors almost invariably function in some way within the context of Irish identity politics, whereby the 'tinker' often serves as a 'primitive' Other to a modern, civilized Irish Self. This study considers the 'tinker' character in a large body of serious and popular literary texts, some well known, others rarely if ever discussed, and traces how the literary construct of the 'tinker' figure as domestic or foreign Other evolves over time. Three chapters concentrate on specific historical contexts, as the 'tinker' shifts from being a relatively straightforward scapegoat in the literature of the early nineteenth century, to being a more complex and ambiguous embodiment of both the aspirations and anxieties of the Anglo-Irish writers of the Revival, to being a barometer of aspects of modernity and regression in the mid-twentieth-century Irish Republic. Three further chapters focus on thematic contexts that have particular relevance for the development of the 'tinker' figure: children's literature from and about Ireland; fabulist narratives, particularly those with plot configurations derived from Celtic mythology; and crime and detective fiction set in Ireland. Finally the way in which individual travellers represent themselves in autobiographical narratives of the late twentieth century is considered, often in response to the fictional 'tinker' stereotype that has persisted in sedentary society and its cultural expressions for centuries.

Book The Kingdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colin Teevan
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2012-11-02
  • ISBN : 184943591X
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book The Kingdom written by Colin Teevan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I was never part of any gang that killed a man” Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. But as they dig down, long buried secrets begin to emerge and the story they tell is as dark as the earth itself. It’s a tale full of rich and striking characters which vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century - a world of immigration, violence, sex, triumph and, ultimately, tragedy. Rooted in the dramas of ancient Greece, The Kingdom, the latest play by acclaimed playwright Colin Teevan is both haunting and lyrical.