Product Description: A visual history of the Traveling circuses and shows that traveled the roads of Ireland between the 1920s and the arrival of television in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Professor OhAodha (pron: Oh-Hay) estimates there were more than 140 of these shows including circus shows, magic shows, revues, fit-ups traveling theatres who traveled Ireland during the period and the 1940s was their zenith partly because many performers from other countries (especially via Britain) moved to Ireland to avoid persecution (this includes continental showmen as well as Jews and Roma trying to scratch a living as roaming entertainers and performers)...read more

Product Description: Travellers and the Settled Community is unique in its elucidation of the Irish Traveller voice, the Traveller perspective and the important light this sheds on Irish society as it developed from the rural to the urban. The contributors to this volume depict a new and revealing energy in Irish society; an impetus that jettisons the fixed and unchanging viewpoints of old and prefaces a multi-cultural future...read more

Product Description: Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role which oral history plays in the documentation, representation and subsequent empowerment of neglected and long-marginalised social groups, in this case: the cultural minorities that are the Irish Travellers and the Australian Aborigines...read more

Product Description: When artist Gerhardt Gallagher came across a series of etchings by his German grandmother Margarethe it launched a sequence of events, which led to an exhibition and then this book. Magarethe's artistic career had been severely disrupted by two wars and Gerhardt conceived a project, which would allow Margarethe's works to be exhibited in Ireland along with his own...read more

Product Description: This volume is a paean to the 'Revue', the 'Fit-Up' and the fifty or more travelling roadshows which traversed the roads of Ireland during the heyday of the 'fit-ups', the decades prior to the Second World War. This book is a personal memoir of one of the 'goddesses' of Irish repertory theatre - Vic (Victoria Loving) - the woman known as the 'Sequin Queen' - as recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last of these travelling artistes...read more

Product Description: Flash Parade was the name that the legendary Vic Loving gave to her touring company which travelled the length and breadth of Ireland and parts of England from the 1920 s to the early 1960's. She was also known as the 'Sequin Queen' for lavishly made costumes used by her dancers and actors in her productions...read more

Product Description: Long considered as 'outsiders' or 'strangers' in their own country, the Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction; they were the drivers for these cultural representations of their own community...read more

Product Description: This volume explores the discourses and representations that have circumvented the image that is the Traveller, the Roma (Gypsy) and migrant Other . It is generally acknowledged that the globalisation and mass-media dissemination which characterise the current era have overseen a range of complex socio-cultural forces, many of which have blurred the once-reified borders of the post-Enlightenment, modern , nation-state...read more

Product Description: The late-twentieth century has witnessed a particular prominence assigned to the discourses of difference and Otherness. An examination of this othering discourse as related to Travellers, Gypsies and Showpeople ennumerates the projective function of the Othering process, a form of rejection and marginalisation that is the institutionalization of ideas which are seldom challenged...read more

Product Description: This volume is, in part, an attempt to give a voice or a platform to communities who have frequently found themselves on the margins of the so-called mainstream community - the hidden Irish, the hidden European, the nomad and the migrant who reflects the changing face of the new and immigrant Europe...read more

Product Description: This volume hopes to act as a new marker in the areas of Irish Studies and Migration/Diaspora Studies. It is also, in part, an attempt to give a voice to communities who have frequently found themselves on the margins of the so-called mainstream community - the hidden Irish, the hidden European, the migrant, the nomad that reflects the changing face of the new and immigrant Europe...read more

Product Description: This volume is an exploration of the image that is the Traveller/Gypsy, the nomad, the migrant and the outsider/ Other within the frames of articulation that are the present-day flows of cultural diaspora and mass globalisation. Mass-media dissemination and the combination of a range of complex social and cultural forces and movements have all served to rupture and blurr the borders of the post-Enlightenment, modern nation-state...read more

Product Description: Ever since the Abbey Theatre opened in 1940 the collection of portraits on the walls of its foyer has steadily grown. In the beginning, as Yeats wrote, these were all by ""an Irish artist,"" actually his father, the painter J.B. Yeats, but the collection now includes portraits by several renowned Irish painters depicting the players, many of whom have achieved worldwide fame...read more