WHEN gypsies and travellers get ready for their weddings, christenings and holy communions, there’s only one make-up artist they turn to.Farida Khal Jump directly to the content Irish Sun ...

All of this means that Travellers tend to see the rest of Irish society as alien. It means that they do not have a bond with or loyalty to the rest of society, and that means some of them see ...

Jamie Johnson has released a new book, entitled 'Growing Up Travelling: The Inside World of Irish Traveller Children', which shows girls no older than eight smoking cigarettes.

In the 1960s Alen MacWeeney photographed indigenous Irish nomads called the Travellers. Fifty years later his raw and gritty photos are a historical look at a culture that is slowly fading into ...

Life With the Irish Travellers Reveals a Bygone World. One photographer spent four years gaining unprecedented access to this close-knit community. By Alexa Keefe. Photographs by Birte Kaufmann.

In his book, Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More — which also comes with a CD of Traveller music recordings — MacWeeny shows us a gritty, intimate portrait of the people he eventually came to ...