An Irish travellers family, grandmother, mother, and children. They are pitched at the side of the road.The wagon is a traditional wooden Bow or Barrel topped horse drawn wagon. L-R. Jamesie Faulkner wearing a baseball cap, the horse is called Ducksy. The blonde girl with curly hair is Kathleen "Kaka" Faulkner, her mother Mary Faulkner (née McCarthy) sits behind her. The girl with brown hair is Mary McCarthy and grandmother Maisy Faulkner (née O'Donoghue) and behind...
more »An Irish travellers family, grandmother, mother, and children. They are pitched at the side of the road.The wagon is a traditional wooden Bow or Barrel topped horse drawn wagon. L-R. Jamesie Faulkner wearing a baseball cap, the horse is called Ducksy. The blonde girl with curly hair is Kathleen "Kaka" Faulkner, her mother Mary Faulkner (née McCarthy) sits behind her. The girl with brown hair is Mary McCarthy and grandmother Maisy Faulkner (née O'Donoghue) and behind her sitting and peaking from behind is Christina 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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