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Voice of the Traveller - May 2009 - Issue 70
Selected articles of the May 2009 issue of Voice of the Traveller. Click on the images to either see the front page of our selected edition or read an article:
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In this issue: Shades of Blue - Looking beyond the uniform The Big Debate - Should Travellers Still Travel? Glam Gran scoops award Written off - Looking at literacy Shayne Ward - Everyone's cousin? |
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Shades of Blue The relationship between the Traveller community and An Garda Síochána is changing for the better with special training initiatives giving Gardaí better insight into Traveller Culture. Voice of the Traveller spoke to one trainee Garda about his fortnight spent in Our Lady’s Centre of Education in Mallow. |
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A foot in both camps Travellers involved in relationships with settled partners have a unique insight into both communities. To find out more David Lynch interviews Voice of the Travellers' Julieanne Doorley about family, discrimination, identity and her own position in both communities. |
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Should Travellers still travel? It's in the very name, Traveller. But the nomadic way of life is no longer central for many Travellers. If you don't live "on the road", does this make you less of a Traveller? Can you still be a Traveller and live your whole life in a housing estate? This issue Voice of the Traveller debates Travellers and travelling. |
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Wedding profile This month's featured wedding is Melissa Stokes and Michael McDonnell who wed in Longford in April. |
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Memory Lane Voice of the Traveller features photographs from the unique collection of photographs of people from the Traveller Community housed by Clare County Library. |
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