Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Summer of 2012 and I’m travelling in Ireland. One night in a bar, and I’ve now come to learn that many of the best tales start one night in an Irish bar, I’m nursing a pint of Guinness […]
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“Mag O’Leary got a selfie with the Pope”
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Barney & Nancy foster five Traveller children from heroin addicted parents and have been active in Traveller community development for over 20 years. Barney: Before we got this house we saw a house up in Beechmont and the agent […]
“I face discrimination every day, because I’m a woman and a Travelling woman”
Reminiscences: The real lives of Irish Travellers Missie Collins and her daughter-in-law Tessa Collins both work at the Pavee Point Traveller & Roma center in Dublin, as primary healthcare workers and in the violence against women programme. Missie: No less than last week I […]
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