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Travellers

MacWeeney’s Travellers at Ireland House

By Daphne Wolf, Contributor
April / May 2012

March 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

In 1965, looking for an image to illustrate the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Dublin-born photographer Alen MacWeeney stumbled into what he calls “a deep pool of hidden Irish culture” – the world of the people known as Travellers – and found himself “lost in their lives and stories” for almost six years. MacWeeney, collaborating with actress Aedin Moloney, brought that … [Read more...] about MacWeeney’s Travellers at Ireland House

Bare-Faced and Bare-Knuckled: Fighting Traveller Families

By Daphne Wolf, Contributor
October / November 2011

October 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Filmed carefully over a period of twelve years, the documentary Knuckle sheds light on the inner workings and on-going feuds of three Irish Traveller clans. Up next for the film: a New York premiere and an HBO spin-off series. Don’t let the bandaged fist in the photo fool you. Knuckle, Ian Palmer’s documentary about the bare-fisted boxing tradition of the Irish Travellers, … [Read more...] about Bare-Faced and Bare-Knuckled: Fighting Traveller Families

The Travelling People

By Emer Mullins, Contributor
By Derek Speirs, Phoyos
February / March 2002

February 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

In a small village in County Galway, a group of parents decided to keep their children home from school. Their school has just 12 pupils between four and 12 years old, but parents closed it down for a week last September, because they wanted to keep other children out. The children they wanted to keep out were also Irish. Their parents had grown up in the area, Ballinruane … [Read more...] about The Travelling People

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Today in History

July 3, 1878

Famous for claiming to be born on the 4th of July, George M. Cohan was actually born on July 3, 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island. A theater legend, Cohan was born to parents of Irish Catholic descent who were travelling vaudevillians. From a young age, he and his sister appeared in several of his parents’s shows and sketches and they eventually became known as “The Four Cohans.” The group became extremely popular and Cohan was writing all their material. His most famous songs were “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Give My Regards to Broadway.”

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