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Young Irish Traveller woman in Southern Ireland 1970s

In the fascinating pictures a group of boys play on a barge on a Dublin canal, a group of men enjoy pints of stout at a pub, and a fishing trawler returns to the shore of Fingal with fresh supplies.

A selection from: IRISH TINKERS, A Portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970s. The book was originally published in 1976 and the hard copy is now out of print.Through photographs by Janine Wiedel and transcripts by Martina OFearadhaigh, the book documents this resilient nomadic subculture and its battle in the 1970s

A selection from: IRISH TINKERS, A Portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970s. The book was originally published in 1976 and the hard copy is now out of print.Through photographs by Janine Wiedel and transcripts by Martina OFearadhaigh, the book documents this resilient nomadic subculture and its battle in the 1970s