The Tinker Menace: The Diary of a Irish Traveller

by Laura Angela Collins

Laura, Craig and Anthony's mum held many secrets and pain within London that as they grew up would all come seeping out the covered wound. This is a page turning book which shows the heart-breaking journey that Mary Collins and her daughter Laura Angela took. It shows their close bond, while in Marys childhood she was being beaten in the Magdalene laundry and industrial school to hate her ethnicity and her mother to never have the bond they both share. Mary's sister Margaret aged fourteen was locked away in Sunday wells good shepherds cork Magdalene laundry. Her mother Angelina was locked away in St. Vincent Magdalene laundry for twenty seven years after being deemed a good mum in reports, once she entered the doors of the laundry, she would never see freedom again. When Mary was on the edge after so much betrayal, corruption, cover ups & injustice, Laura sets out to expose the extensive cover ups created by the Irish government and Catholic Church around the child abuse inquiry & the genocide on her small community to the public. She promises to help her mum remove her loved one from a neglected mass grave after the State and Church was both responsible in taking their life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1091090769
• ISBN13: 9781091090767
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"