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Dated term for Irish Travellers
"In the final analysis whatever the hypocritical mouthings of our "pillars of society" about aid to people overseas, it is on their treatment of the poor, the [Travellers] and the working class at home that they must be judged."
A 1976 article from The Bottom Dog, "working class paper of North Munster", by Jim MacNamara on an example of open hostility to Irish Travellers from a local Urban Councillor.
Since this article has been shared a bit recently, readers might notice we have very little material from Traveller activism on our website.
If anyone has documents from Travellers organisations or campaigns that they'd be willing to send us (either digital or physical copies for us to scan) we'd be delighted to hear from you!
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Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
An article on Traveller activism in response to anti-Traveller protests and state mistreatment. The Committee ran the first Traveller candidate for the Dáil, Nan Joyce, in 1982.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
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Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
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From 1998, an article from the Workers' Solidarity Movement paper, Anarchist News, on anti-Traveller racism.
The issue is available on our website here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2988/
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Anarchist News, No. 17 (1998) — Workers' Solidarity Movement
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From the Committee for the Rights of Travellers in 1983:
Pavee, No. 3 -- a magazine produced by the Travellers' rights group during their campaign responding to anti-Traveller rallies and calling for better provision for Travellers and recognition of Traveller ethnicity.
Pavee, No. 3 (1983) — Committee for the Rights of Travellers
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