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To police, the Irish Travellers are clannish, tight-lipped masters of scam. Give them the chance, and they'll resurface your driveway with motor oil. Lower your guard, and their $35 roof repair ...
Aside from confirming the distinctiveness of Irish Travellers, the microbiome findings also highlight important public health policy lessons ...
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 ...
Hailing history, heritage, and storytelling, we look forward to Irish Traveller, Manor Donohue's upcoming book.
Photographer Birte Kaufmann captured the lifestyle and culture of the Irish Travelling Community over four years in a rare look at the close-knit group.
The Irish Travellers, also known as Pavees or Mincéirs, are an ethnic group native to Ireland, with a centuries-long history of leading nomadic lives across their country.
For most of the last two centuries, Irish cuisine has been dominated by one terrible event: the dreadful famine of the mid-1840s. But thanks to a booming economy and a focus on classic Irish ...
That is one Traveller's take on what he sees as the omission of his community's culture in the Irish school curriculum. But that could soon change after research this week presented a possible ...
However, scientists behind the study expressed concern that Irish Travellers may be losing this unique microbiome because of enforced lifestyle changes.
Written into the DNA of modern Irish theatre is the notion of Travellers as the embodiment of freedom, wildness, and danger.