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Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0881336025
ISBN-13:: 9780881336023
Pub. Date:: 05/01/1991
Publisher:: Waveland Press, Inc.

ISBN-10:: 0881336025
ISBN-13:: 9780881336023
Pub. Date:: 05/01/1991
Publisher:: Waveland Press, Inc.

Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman / Edition 1

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ISBN-13:	9780881336023
Publisher:	Waveland Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/1991
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

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Ireland's tinkers or ``Travellers,'' pariahs in their own land, are a sociological anomaly, fast disappearing in contemporary Ireland. In 1971 Gmelch, a New York professor of anthropology, took up residence in Holylands, an official campsite set up outside Dublin by the government to keep tinkers off the roads. She moved there to become better acquainted with Nan, a Traveller born in 1919 in a tent in the Irish midlands. Nan's oral history, her self-described ``awful mixup of a life,'' takes us into the Travellers' periods of pleasant, patched-together domesticity that are inevitably shattered by violence and marital crises, usually precipitated by drink. Nan's marriages, her 18 children, the shocking physical abuse perpetrated by one husband, did not break her, and even allowed her a little happiness. Nan's story provides a unique perspective on 20th century Irish history. Photographs not seen by PW. (May 27)

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Nan Donohoe's life story is told, most ly in her own words, as representative of the native Irish gypsies known as travellers, or tinkers. It is a story of the will to survive despite poverty, disease, illiteracy, abuse, and well-intentioned but ineffective bureaucratic interfer ence. For generations these itinerants peddled wares and services to the rural populace. After World War II, with mass produced goods and machinery readily available to farmers, their means of livelihood vanished and they began to camp nearer urban centers, causing great social problems. They are now mostly in government camps and receiving welfare because assimilation into the mainstream appears impossi ble. Similarities with the migrant farm worker in the United States abound. For specialist and lay reader alike. Sondra Brunhumer, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo

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