In the 1960s Alen MacWeeney photographed indigenous Irish nomads called the Travellers. Fifty years later his raw and gritty photos are a... Throughout my life I have regularly traveled to my mother's ...
Freud once griped that the Irish are a “race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.” Encountering Alen MacWeeney’s collection of photographs, songs, and stories about the nomads of ...
Syndicalist Workers Federation report from 1964 on the Irish Traveller community in Cherry Orchard, Dublin, taking matters into their own hands to provide a school for their children. Tinker is an ...
From 1965 to 1970, the Travellers of Ireland, a people thought to be “descendents of a mixture of nomadic craftsmen and those who had literally taken to the roads... for a variety of reasons,†...
Cherry Orchard, 1965: "She was playful with the camera," the photographer says. Alen MacWeeney In the summer of 1965, an Irish photographer named Alen MacWeeney came to a field on the outskirts of ...
At the heart of their Irish community, The Tinker's Cart is holding two live shopping events this December to prepare all your Christmas shoppers for the holiday season. The Tinker’s Cart Irish & ...