'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller

by Mary Burke

The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199566461
• ISBN13: 9780199566464
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"