People of the Road: The Irish Travellers

by Mathias T. Oppersdorff

Living along country lanes in tents and barrel-top wagons, Travellers have for centuries been a people apart from Irish society. Photographer Mathias Oppersdorff first encountered them twenty-eight years ago in County Kerry at Puck Fair. His photographs--often stark and disturbing, yet always humane--offer a profound look at people at the crossroads of their existence.

Although the Travellers themselves now concede that education and settling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815604769
• ISBN13: 9780815604761
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.7" x 10.2"