An Irish travellers family, mother and children, amongst their own litter and clothes hanging up to dry. They are pitched at the side of the road. L-R. Mary Faulkner (née McCarthy) her daughter, Christina Faulkner, and cousin Jamesie Faulkner. Bunratty, County Clare, Eire circa 1979.
Names thanks to Frank McCarthy not pictured not born at this time.
The McCarthy family depicted here are still, "travellers although these days we do not have the...
more »An Irish travellers family, mother and children, amongst their own litter and clothes hanging up to dry. They are pitched at the side of the road. L-R. Mary Faulkner (née McCarthy) her daughter, Christina Faulkner, and cousin Jamesie Faulkner. Bunratty, County Clare, Eire circa 1979.
Names thanks to Frank McCarthy not pictured not born at this time.
The McCarthy family depicted here are still, "travellers although these days we do not have the freedom that we would hope to have due to government policies preventing us from practicing our nomadic way of life, they have set constitutional laws since 1963 to restrict our movements and forced us to assimilate into a sedentary way of living. We we're based in Limerick initially but moved to Kerry sometime in the 80s as my late father was from there." Frank McCarthy.
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