By M Ó hAodha, M Warde-Moriarty and J Heneghan, 2012
Monday, 26 August 2013
Travellers and the Settled Community – a shared future
Friday, 23 August 2013
This is the Way
By Gavin Corbett, 2013
Corbett's
second novel tells the story of Anthony Sonaghan, a modern-day Traveller who is
in Dublin to lie low.
While
there, he comes to terms with his powerful, mythic inheritance and begins to
appreciate the strength of his heritage, but also its otherness.
The Killing of The Tinkers
By Ken Bruen, 2002
A Traveller
approaches Jack Taylor for help in solving the murders of a number of his clan.
The Guards aren't interested, since, after all, "it's only tinkers... and
everyone knows, they're always killing each other."
The
quintessential outsider himself, Jack sets about investigating the killings.
Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture
By Joan Helleiner, 2000
Documents anti-Traveller racism and explores the ongoing realities of
Traveller life.
Through analyses of Traveller origins, local government records, the
provincial press, and Irish parliamentary debates, a history of local and
national anti-Traveller discourse and practice is revealed and linked to other
social inequalities, including class, gender, and generation.
Beneath an Irish Sky
By Isabella Connor, 2013
A
gripping story of love and loss, where two worlds collide, bringing danger and
unearthing dark family secrets. The real pleasure of this novel lies in the
character of Luke, a young Irish traveller, who is thrust into an unknown world
following a tragic accident. Irish Traveller culture is beautifully woven into
the fabric of this novel. The atmosphere of suspicion between the Traveller
community and the settled community
is well conveyed.
Traveller Writer Series 2010
Published by the Irish Traveller Movement
A selection of stories, articles, and thoughts of
Irish Travellers on a wide range of topics. Collected to commemorate Traveller Pride Week and
demonstrate that Travellers have opinions and contributions to make on many
issues in Irish society.
Falling Glass
By Adrian McKinty, 2011
A
crime novel with a wonderful Irish Traveller character at its centre, full of
insight and sardonic humour. Killian has been thwarted in his attempts to go
straight by the demise of the Celtic Tiger and has returned to his previous
living as an enforcer. Tasked with finding a man’s drug-addicted ex-wife, he
soon realises that her disappearance is about a lot more than denying access.
He takes her to hide among the Travellers.
Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More
By Alen MacWeeney, 2011
For
over five years, MacWeeney photographed Irish Travellers, spending countless
evenings in their caravans and by their campfires. MacWeeney
has crafted a profoundly beautiful record of a slowly vanishing way of life
rarely seen by outsiders, let alone captured by a camera.
Stir Fry
By Emma Donoghue, 1994
A clever, poignant
and funny coming-of-age story by an award-winning writer.
A 17 year-old girl
from rural Ireland goes to university in Dublin and accidentally moves in with
a lesbian couple.
It explores how
someone might stumble into questioning their sexual identity in the midst of
friendship, and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and non-possessiveness.
Coming Out: Irish gay experiences
By Glen O’Brien, 2003
With
a foreword by Colm Tóibín, this book details the experiences of Irish gay men,
lesbians and bisexuals. Told by themselves, but also through the voices of parents,
siblings, wives and children, this is a story of gay rights against a backdrop
of oppression, suppression and repression.
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
By Jeanette Winterson, 1985
This award-winning, funny and tender novel tells
the story of a girl growing up in a fundamentalist Christian home whose
upbringing is marked by bible readings and the journey to find her true self.
The girl’s emerging lesbian identity is a theme beautifully explored.
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