Irish travellers : the unsettled life / Sharon Bohn Gmelch and George Gmelch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gmelch, Sharon, author.

Gmelch, George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Travellers (Nomadic people).

Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)--Pictorial works.

Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)--Social conditions.

Ireland--Ethnic relations.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Anthrogologists George and Sharon Gmelch have lived among the itinerant people known as Travelers since their first fieldwork in the early 1970s. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had knows decades before--shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs that they shared with Traveller friends and acquaintances. Many of those black-and-white photos are included in this book, alongside more recent photos and personal narratives that reveal how Travelers lives have changed and what it means to be a Traveler today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Irish Travellers

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

1 From Tinkers to Travellers

2 First Fieldwork

3 Return to a Changing Ireland

4 Cork

5 Kathleen Mongan Keenan Pushed from Pillar to Post

6 The Road to Ennis

7 Galway

8 Paddy Houlahan Living on the Edge of Your Town

9 Tuam

10 Mary Warde Moriarty Not All Travellers Wanted the Same Thing

11 Martin Ward We've Come a Long Way

12 Full Circle

13 Martin Collins Traveller Politics Have Been My Life

14 Unsettled Identity, Unsettled Life

Acknowledgments

Notes

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780253014610

0253014611

OCLC:

1051675699