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Travellers

Kenneth O’Halloran’s project “Fair Trade” captures the flavor of a group of Gaelic nomads with a tradition of gathering on special occasions to trade horses, ponies and other goods. He says women regard the trading fairs “as occasions worth dressing...

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.

Young Irish Traveller woman in Southern Ireland 1970s

Last night we were yet again graced with another fantastic episode of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings on Channel 4. This documentary series enters the secretive world of Britain’s Gypsy travellers and…

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

McCalls Highlandwear

A glimpse at some of the traditional shawls worn in Inis Meáin, demonstrate how truly important colour was in the lives of rural Irish communities.