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Irish Travellers in America: The Terrible Williamsons
A rogue’s gallery of Williamsons. It is impossible to study the history of American Travellers without realizing that their history runs parallel to, and is often conflated with, that of a collection...
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Irish Travellers in America: My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding
My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: Not the most respectful title. I recently watched the only episode of TLC’s “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” to address Irish Travellers in America, and did so...
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Irish Travellers in America: Travellers’ Rest
A photo of Travellers’ Rest author Richard J. Waters from his site. I don’t know when the website Travellers’ Rest disappeared off the web — it seems to have been recently, as I recall looking at it in...
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Irish Travellers in America: A Guide for Journalists Who Want to Write About...
Before you write about Irish Travellers, ask yourself a few questions. Hello, journalists! Spring is right around the corner, and there is a good chance your newspaper is going to try to tackle that...
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Irish Travellers in America: The Irish Pedlar
Old James, the Irish Pedlar. As you may have noticed, part of the difficulty in surveying news stories about Irish Travellers is that the press gave them so many names, and knew so little about the...
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Irish Travellers in America: Shelta
One woman’s experience 80 years ago; apparently still applicable. You don’t often find Irish-Americans referring to Irish Travellers, but I did find a February 14, 1908, article in the Washington DC...
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Irish Travellers in America: Scammed by Society
One of the only books about Travellers written by somebody who has regularly interacted with their community. I should take a moment to mention “Scammed by Society: A Moral Ethnographic Study” by John...
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Irish Travellers in America: The Three Wishes of Jamie McRuin
The Tree Wishes of Jamie McRuin I recently wrote about a film that Jimmy Cagney planned to make but didn’t. It wasn’t described well in the sources I found, just that it was about Irish Travellers and...
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