Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More - Tapa dura

Photographs and text describe the life of the nomadic people, the Irish Travellers.

ALEN MACWEENEY was born in Dublin and came to the United States at age 21 to become assistant to renowned photographer Richard Avedon. He soon established himself as a contributor to such journals as the New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine. He has produced seven books, including Bloomsbury Reflections, Irish Stone Walls and Fabled Landscapes, and Spaces for Silences (2002). The feature length documentary film Traveller, inspired by MacWeeney's photographs, and which he co-directed, was broadcast on RTE in Ireland in 2002 and by the BBC in 2003.

BAIRBRE NI FHLOINN of the Department of Irish Folklore at University College Dublin contributes an introduction to Irish Travellers and transcribes from MacWeeney's tapes five remarkable stories told by Traveller Johnny Cassidy, providing notes to the stories, as well as to the songs on the CD included with the book.