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Irish Traveller Women. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, May 2009, Pages: 116
The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of
the life experience and culture of female Irish
Travellers in Ireland, with special consideration to
their experience in Northern Ireland. The Irish
Travelling community are an indigenous minority
group. Traditionally a nomadic community Travellers
have been marginalised and discriminated against with
new pluralistic initiatives at interculturalism
failing to moderate Irish society’s perception of the
community. The author has made special note of the
traditional female Traveller economy, their
door-step-exchanges which have displayed an agency
and skill historically invalidated. Other aspects
considered include recent changes to Traveller
nomadism, anti-Traveller racism, health, education,
marriage and Traveller faith. Frequently the
Travelling community has been used in literature and
art as symbolic vehicles, this volume considers the
Irish and Colonial Constructs of Traveller Culture
focusing on fine artists such Northern painter Basil
Blackshaw and recent depictions of Travellers in
films.
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