Irish travellers

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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.

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.

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Young Irish Traveller woman in Southern Ireland 1970s

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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.

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...

Paddy and Liam Doran, aged 16 and 15, from Kildare in Ireland, were discovered by the award-winning British photographer Perry Ogden when they were just nine and 10.