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Item Details
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IRISH TRAVELLERS
REPRESENTATIONS AND REALITIES |
| By: |
Michael Hayes |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1904148794 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781904148791 |
| Publisher: |
THE LIFFEY PRESS |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Examines how images of Irish Travellers have been created and distorted over the centuries. Focusing on the 1952 "Tinker Questionnaire", which is an account of "settled" Irish people's attitudes to Travellers, this book reflects on the mixture of equality-driven calls for rights and respect with the media-driven stereotype that persists. |
| Synopsis: |
The "Traveller question" has been a major source of debate in Irish society for decades, centuries even, and appears no closer to being answered today. For as long as Travellers have roamed the roads of Ireland, they have been subjected to, at best, a sort of mythic, romanticised patronisation, and at worst, vilification and outright hostility - but always as the "other" of Irish ethnic identity. Micheal O hAodha closely examines how images of Travellers have been created and distorted over the centuries, from the nineteenth-century "gipsilorists" to late-twentieth-century anthropological studies. In particular, O hAodha focuses on the 1952 "Tinker Questionnaire", conducted by the Irish Folklore Commission, which remains the most comprehensive account to date of "settled" Irish people's attitudes to Travellers. The author concludes by reflecting on today's complex mixture of equality-driven calls for rights and respect with the largely media-driven stereotype that persists. Where, in all this, does the ever day reality of the Traveller community fit? |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
The Liffey Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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