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The lives of young Irish Travellers


The lives of young Irish Travellers, through our own eyes

Martin Beanz Warde: Travellers from across Ireland are chasing dreams that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

The Irish Travellers who No Longer Travel - france leclerc

When being photographed, the young boys always show their tight fists and take a fighting position. The girls quickly take a provocative pose, ...

Stunning series documents the lives of Irish Traveller children

An American photographer spent four years on and off living amongst Irish Travellers before producing a stunning series of young Traveller ...

Grit and beauty: the lives of Irish Traveller children – in pictures

Jamie Johnson spent five years photographing the fun-loving, fashion conscious kids who are forced to spend their childhoods battling prejudice.

Getting to know the Irish Travellers - Michele Zousmer

Because of this I found myself taken by the role of the young girls in the Irish Traveller community. They are sexualized at young ages and ...

Youth - Irish Traveller Movement

The ITM Youth programme is all about bringing young Travellers together to an inclusive space where they can participate, develop and be empowered.

The Irish Travellers Uphold the Traditions of a Bygone World

An ethnic minority in Ireland, the Travellers have lived on the margins of mainstream Irish society for centuries. Efforts have been made to ...

Irish Travellers | People, Traditions, & Language - Britannica

Irish Travellers, a traditionally nomadic ethnic minority indigenous to Ireland. Irish Travellers live in Ireland and throughout Great ...

Hidden ireland - Irish Travellers | Michele Zousmer

They desire to marry young, have large familes and continue this life of hardship. Education is not valued. Statistics say there is 81% domestic violence ...

Jamie Johnson “Growing up Travelling” - Leica Gallery LA

The Traveller community are an Irish nomadic indigenous ethnic minority. There is no recorded date as to when Travellers first came to Ireland. This is lost to ...

*RE-UPLOAD* Irish Travellers I ARTE.tv Documentary - YouTube

Irish Travelers live on the fringes of society and their living conditions are on a downward spiral. A recent EU study revealed shocking ...

A Rare and Intimate Look at the Lives of Irish Traveller Children

The Irish Travellers are an ethnic minority, and they adhere to a nomadic lifestyle passed down between the generations. They travel in caravans ...

Irish Travellers - Susan Furlong

Descendants of nomadic Irish peoples who immigrated to the United States during the Great Famine, the Travellers settled throughout the country in extended ...

Irish Travellers 'mental health crisis' driven by discrimination ... - BBC

David said that young Irish Travellers are struggling to balance their sense of identity with the demands of belonging in Irish society. "It's ...

What is life like for a modern day traveler or gypsy in Ireland ... - Quora

Ireland is the original home of the travellers. All travellers can trace their roots to ireland. Every medium town has a halting site where the ...

Irish Travellers Work to Define the Road Ahead in Contemporary ...

Clare; Pat Broderick, East Galway; and Martin Nolan, Dublin, (pipes). Move along. Contemporary Irish Traveller music tends to focus on the hardships experienced ...

Irish Travellers - Wikipedia

Irish Traveller communities are located in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. ... As of 2016, there were 32,302 Travellers within Ireland.

The Irish Traveller community of Murphy Village, South Carolina, USA

As a young child, I was always surrounded by family and played with cousins who lived only a few steps away from my front door. A four-corner ...

Love and Death Among the Irish Travellers - Nashville Scene

One suggested that perhaps the young women were becoming more independent and less tied to the old ways of meeting their love match in Nashville ...

Irish Travellers - Declan Henry Author

They are also known as 'Na Lucht Siúil' ('The Walking People') for their nomadic lifestyle – moving from place to place and selling handmade ...