The life of Irish Travellers has changed hugely within a few generations.

Many older Travellers on different sites fear a loss of culture is occurring. They feel intimidated by the young Travellers as they cannot identify with their modern ways, slang, and education. This creates a gap between the generations.

Similarly younger Travellers feel that older Travellers are always giving out about them regardless of what they do and so they don’t make attempts to communicate with them.

To address these differences and narrow the gap between the generations, a group of Travellers of different ages came together at Pavee Point to work on a unique multigenerational project.

Travelling Through the Generations is the fruit of that work.

Young Travellers learned of the harsh realities of their grandparents’ lives and older Travellers learned that the young generation is still very proud of their culture and identity