Publications - Culture

The Raineys CD.

A rare recording of Irish Traveller music The Raineys is available to purchase from Pavee Point. The Rainey family were well known Galway musicians whose music was renowned throughout the country. The CD is a recording by Professor Tony Knowland of rare tracks performed by the Raineys in Freeneys Pub in Letterfrack Connemara in 1956. This collection is the only known recording of the Raineys and it is the first time their music has been recorded on a C.D.

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Travellers and fellow Travellers Keepers of the Flame.

CD Featuring: Bohinta Kitty Cassidy John Doherty Felix Doran Christy Dunne Mickey Dunne Pecker Dunne Finbar Furey Christy Moore and Declan Sinnot Mary Francis Keenan Paddy Keenan Sean Tyrrell The Raineys John Rooney

Music and song have always been important to Traveller life and culture. This collection, which includes some of the best examples of recorded music and song by Travellers, is being released as part of Pavee Point's twentieth anniversary celebrations.

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Pavee Culture: Our Ways - Our Voices

This video documentary explores the richness of Traveller culture both past and present. It examines such areas as Traveller language, nomadism, the oral and music traditions, the Traveller economy and extended family networks.

NOTE:  This publication is discontinued in its original VHS format.  Editions on DVD are available; this may be useful for small groups, but please be aware that the mastering quality of the publication is not of a uniformly excellent standard.

2002 25.00 Statutory 20.00 Voluntary
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Traveller Ways, Traveller Words

Seventeen Travellers, young and old, carve a multi-dimensional image for us of many aspects of Traveller life

ISBN 1 897598 00 Price €6.35
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Whisht Booklet: Irish Traveller Folktales and Songs, The Cassidys 1967

People have always told stories and sung songs, and always will. The sung and spoken narratives in this collection are international, all of them travellers in their own way, as Johnny Cassidy and his family were. Their tales and songs represent a vibrant oral tradition stretching back hundreds, and possibly thousands, of years. Near relations to this type of material can be found in the earliest literary collections of antiquity, throughout the classical period, right up into the Middle Ages and beyond. The stories and motifs found here span a vast distance in space as well as time, reaching across continents and oceans with apparent ease, from Ireland to India to the New World. As times change , so too do the stories, assuming new attire and a different guise

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