Articles tagged ‘travellers’
The Outsiders - Exposing the Secretive World of Ireland’s Travellers
By Seán | March 3rd, 2007 |
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This book concerning Irish travellers was recently published and, as I had recently blogged here about “the Hulk” I decided to alleviate some of my ignorance on the matter by reading this book.
This book spends almost the entire time discussing the criminality of the travelling community, focusing specifically on a few notorious personalities. At the [...]
King of the Travellers
By Seán | November 28th, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Duuuude, look at this guy.
This man is Joe “The Hulk” Joyce, who, sources tell me, is the king of all travellers.
I’m just going to pause to give credit for a fabulous photograph to my friend and local photographer, David Walsh. Fair play to ya, Dave.
Anyway, back to that king of all travellers thing - apparently, [...]
Traveller Funeral
By Seán | November 14th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The building I do a bit of work in is adjacent to the new town centre construction site. About 3 months ago in the process of building the new centre they severed the sewage pipes coming from our office.
Since that time we’ve had to visit neighbouring businesses to do ours.
In any case, I stepped [...]
Daily Dose - 14 Oct
By Seán | October 14th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
ooooo, Irish news in a DAILY DOSE!
Just about then I realised I was getting the auld DDs,
When the child of Prague began to dance around the mantlepiece . . .
Brains! Brains for my master! (Brain surgeons, actually): Read here.
Taoiseach pulls a Bill Clinton: Read here
Child abductions in Ireland up by 33%: Read here.
Czech more high [...]
Daily Dose - 13 Oct
By Seán | October 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
ooooo, Irish news in a DAILY DOSE!
Just about then I realised I was getting the auld DDs,
When the child of Prague began to dance around the mantlepiece . . .
Irish cider sales jump by 77%: Read here.
10,000 Irish gov workers told to move - 750 do: Read here
Irish troops head for Lebanon: Read here.
Irish gov [...]
Ballinasloe Horse Fair
By Seán | October 2nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Every year there is a huge horse fair in Ballinasloe. Midland balladeer Brendan Shine wrote a song about it about, oh, a million years ago. If you think that’s old, just think: this Irish festival is older.
As Brendan says, the king of the fair used to be chosen by fistfight. Now the king is
