Mincéir tashler, ly-fein, writer/ author/ maker of inyox & notions! Inclusive Histories Curator for Traveller Culture with @NMIreland. Tori'er, Personal Acc.
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2021: The Emigrant’s Teapot by tinsmith Mike Maughan from Tuam.
2023: The wonderful Chloe McDonagh’s powerful Pisogue Project stamp works tracing Traveller journeys, identity & resilience.
2026: The Minceir-Pavee stamps.
Our stories continue to travel x
Today, the President, in her welcome to the Aras, for afternoon tea celebrating Traveller culture, opened with "Mo Geels, Gralta" - "My people, Welcome" - in Gammon-Cant our language 🥰
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I know many Mincéirí / Travellers have been frustrated by the most recent census - as while many, though no where enough of us, have a sense of space and lore of location, many are just not recorded.
Delighted to find this ancestor and kin:
"No Fixed Residence" x
Tues, May 5th @ 6pm @ Books Upstairs Dublin ✨
PLEASE JOIN US for a glass of wine, a celebratory reading & panel discussion on 'State, in Relation'
w/ @NiChurr @SonyaGildea @STomaselli @sonyagildea @nithykasa @ClareBell_
Event is free, reg required:
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Elder words meeting modern lights - Travellers moving amongst the ages :)
#MinceirAswuirt #TravellersRising #GammonCant #Shelta
Whether you make the Brat Bride, mind the Brídeóg, walk Brigid’s Way, or arrive led only by sheer nosiness and curiosity, you are welcomed to the celebrations :)
Finding Bridget ✨
St Brigid’s Day 2026 screening by Cork Traveller Visibility Group.
A new short film exploring the significance of the name Brigid in Traveller culture & the connections to Brigid in her many ways:
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Little Christmas, Old Christmas, Nollaig na mBan - names shift & the meaning grows. Image by Ellen (Cork), celebrating Gypsy, Traveller & Roma women, and the countless unseen labours of women too often without space or acknowledgement x
'Waiting For Snow' drifts out and off onto the airwaves this Christmas: a gathering of radio essays by a glistening array of fierce writers, with a wee small piece of my own speckled among the delightful graupel - airing on 29th & 30th December at 1.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1 x
This is a call to be a witness.
Among others ‘The Quiet Between Two Texts’, a glimpse between the Irish Constitution & the 1963 Report of the Commission on Itinerancy - a text largely unknown outside of those that have felt it's serrated teeth.
Temple Bar Gallery 4pm tomorrow x
ALT mages are from ‘State, in Relation’ and ‘Omitted Provisions’, two creative outpourings from a collective literature project currently @Dublinartbookfair @Templebargalleryandstudios. It has been utterly thrilling to work with @sonya.gildea @annemarienichurreain @nathanhughodonnell @clare__bell @susan_tomaselli and @nithykasa. Installation is in place until tomorrow - panel and presentation tomorrow at 4. The @artscouncilireland have been pretty tome too with supporting it all!
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📌 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 launches at Dublin Art Book Fair, Sunday 14 December | 4pm. 🔥 𝘖𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 is on view in the atrium of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin🌎These two interconnected projects respond to the Irish Constitution💪Bígí linn
Got to spend yesterday with the Balbriggan Travellers Project working on the Tinsmith Apprenticeship Programme - a wonderful experience forging tools that will be used in the next phase of the Tinsmith course with master Tinsmith James Collins
A hammer for the collection too!
State in Relation launches 14 Dec 4pm at Temple Bar Gallery+Studios
An evening exploring the Irish Constitution as a living, shifting thing, with offerings from seven creatives.
Also showing: Omitted Provisions (5–14 Dec).
Mine, a mirror to the commission on Itinerancy 1963 x
ALT The commission on Itinerancy 1963
I grew up with ‘Old Edward’, even in his late 70s he loved learning new Traveller words:
“Three days after, I’d think of each word… it’s wonderful.”
Every story, recording, text is a sacred gift xxx
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On the train to Galway - as one of the visiting guests as part of the 'If Hazel could talk' programme for this years Misleór - recording and documenting traditional ways of surviving and thriving - delighted with life so I am!
My grīs! Why The Moon Travels in Farsi, translated and gorgeously illustrated by @@Roxymanouchehri and published by Nazarart publication! Words fail where acts succeed x What a joy! Travel far xxx
