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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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