Irish travellers

A LITTLE girl smoking a candy cigarette and a child waving a machete are among the incredible pictures taken of travelling families by photographer Jamie Johnson. The snapper was given unique acces…

“‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. I love this photo.”

When Alen Macweeney returned to his native Ireland in the 1960s, after working as Richard Avedon’s assistant, he first intended to do a photo essay about W.B. Yeats. His research led him to cover another quintessentially Irish subject, one up to then neglected in photojournalism and Irish society in general. “In search of a … Continue reading "A Photo Series Documents the Lives of Irish Travellers Outside Dublin in the Late 1960s"

Belgian photographer Sebastiaan Franco took this collection of fascinating photographs while spending two years living with the Keenan and Collins traveller families on just outside Dublin.

Photographer Jamie Johnson was given unprecedented access to the notoriously private Irish traveller commuity at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival in October.

The annual Ballinasloe Horse Fair, one of the most important social and economic events in the Irish travelling community got underway in County Galway, Ireland today.

Many are not aware of the Irish Traveller community. They are also referred to as gypsies, itinerants, tinkers and knackers. They live following a strict code of behavior that dictates their moral beliefs and influences their behavior. I found them to be a beautiful group of people who put great importance

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 the past.

New research shows that Irish Travellers could be as genetically far removed from settled Irish as the Spanish.