• Thomas McCarthy Traveller Pride Concert at Triskel Christchurch (2019) with support by Kathleen and Davey Keenan

• Thomas McCarthy Storytelling at Triskel Christchurch (2019) for Cork World Book Festival.

In May 2019, a group of talented teenagers from Meelagh Young Girls Group, Mahon visited the Glucksman to take part in a creative workshop exploring Traveller ethnicity. The girls worked together to create bags, posters and a large-scale painting that depicts the Traveller Ethnicity Pin.

Partner with UCC's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit to promote and embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion across all areas of our work. https://www.ucc.ie/en/edi/

Steo Wall's first album 11 debut songs was released in 2018.  It's a mix of spoken word and folk inspired melodies all woven to an acoustic groove and features other folk singers Damien Dempsey, Luka Bloom and Davy Spillane.

Reading performed at the Traveller Ethnicity Celebration 2018

Book Project

This map is a celebration of a proud nomadic past and rich culture. It was developed by Mags O’Sullivan of Cork Traveller Women’s Network, after she interviewed older Travellers who lived on the campsites around the city. Also a 5 minute film.

Pavee Point’s Primary Health Care workers spent this week at the Abbey Theatre developing the inspiring story of their work through drama, story and song with facilitator Kathleen Warner Yeates.

A series of workshops on beady pocket with Traveller and settled women working together and facilitated by Roisin de Buitlear artist in residence at Collins Barracks, National Museum of Ireland.   

• Cork Traveller Pride Film screening double bill (2018) Time Traveller and Unsettled from Tinker to Traveller followed by post show discussion on Traveller Representation on the Big Screen by Noelle Mann, Traveller Voice writer

“Travellers on Film” at the Triskel Christchurch (2018) Special screening of Traveller-related films from the 1940s onwards co-curated by IFI and Minceirs Whiden, followed by panel discussion on Traveller representation in the Media.

Concerts featuring Traveller musicians and singers

A 3-part art project in 2018 that aimed to show a way of integrating Traveller culture into mainstream museums and galleries

Pavee Point collaborated on this project with Seamus Nolan, Hugh Lane and Create.

The new exhibition Accommodate vs. Assimilate by Leanne McDonagh investigates the devastating housing crises and human rights violations endured by the Irish Travelling Community in contemporary Ireland. Commissioned especially for Triskel.

A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.  Written by John Connors and Mark O'Connor. Directed by Mark O'Connor.

Made with with Cornish gypsy Viv Legg

10 weeks of tinsmithing classes for Traveller men at Collins Barracks.

We share a history, we share a memory and they both share my heart. Written by ROSALEEN McDONAGH Directed by JIM CULLETON Set Design by NIAMH LUNNY Lighting Design by SARAH JANE SHIELS Sound Design by DENIS CLOHESSY Video Design by NEIL O’DRISCOLL Cast  - John Connors, Neili Conroy, Gráinne Hallahan, Donal Toolan

A two-hander play, performed by Michael Collins and his 10-year-old son, Johnny. The pair use songs and poetry to tell the story of a family who fear eviction in the wake of the Carrickmines fire.

13 Traveller women, aged from their early 20s to 60s and based in halting sites across the city, who took part in the museum’s outreach programme. Their medium was glass, and they learned to work with it over eight weeks with an artist.

An experiential art installation creating new knowledge and understanding on suicide among Travellers.

‘Lived Lives’ features a series of artworks created by artist Dr Seamus McGuinness of Galway Mayo Institute of Technology in collaboration with Professor Kevin Malone of UCD Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health. The artist uses textile to invoke the sense of loss and pain caused by suicide in the Traveller community and leaves one with a haunting sense of absence.

5 Gigs and open mic at Cobblestone Pub Smithfield 2gigs in Kerry

In 2014 the Hunt Museum, through the Communities of Culture initiative began working with community groups from the North-side and South-side of Limerick. Exploring their unique cultural experiences and heritages through a series of targeted community and museum-based projects.

People across Limerick were invited to join the online launch of The One Million Stars to End Violence Limerick Project on 8 March 2021 (International Women’s Day.)

Traveller Women Awareness Worker in Carlow was involved in this.

After his son’s death, Jim has become isolated from other family members and is misusing alcohol. The audience accompanies Jim on an emotional roller-coaster ride as he articulates loving memories of his son, his fears for the well-being of his other three children, the turmoil that has developed in his relationship with his wife, his anger at God, and his agonising questions about whether there was something he could have done to prevent his son’s death.

She's Not Mine By Rosaleen McDonagh

The story of a mother and the daughter she entrusted to an institution.  This is a play for radio that was broadcast on RTE Radio One. 

‘Rings’ a play by Rosaleen McDonagh focusing on the experiences of a deaf Traveller woman was presented originally as a staged reading as part of Turning Point: A Reading of Four Short Plays by Writers With Disabilities by Fishamble; The New Play Company and Arts & Disability Ireland on 31 March 2010.  Corrib Theatre Company in Portland Oregon, USA, produced ‘Rings’ in November, 2020

This book was created by Traveller and settled children in Mohill, Co Leitrim. It is a heartfelt journey into the past and present of Traveller culture, full of humour, unromantic about poverty, yet celebrates the interdependence of settled and nomadic life. It was created as part of a programme of positive and crucial intervention in the protection and preservation of the Cant language and Traveller culture.

A re-release of of cassette and book by the European Ethnic Oral Traditions (1983) and collected by Tom Munnelly.

An intimate portrait of Winnie, a resilient and spirited young girl, and her family who are Irish Travellers, living on the side of the road in an industrialised area of Dublin. It follows Winnie through several weeks of her life, as she struggles with her identity as a young Traveller girl in contemporary Ireland.  At the 2005 IFTA Awards, Director Perry Ogden won Breakthrough Talent and Winnie Maughan was nominated for Best Actress in a Feature Film.  The film was also nominated and a winner at a variety of film festivals.

In ‘It's a cultural thing ... or is it?, Writer and actor Michael Collins brings the audience on a cross-generational journey, exploring Traveller culture from various perspectives.

15 recordings from 1950s to 2005 - 20th anniversary of PP

This collection of stories, poems and illustrations was written and illustrated by Traveller children in Belfast. They worked with storytellers, artists, their teachers and families to discover mover about the art and fun of storytelling and the important part it played in their history and cultural identity. This book sheds a light on Traveller culture from the child’s point of view and is intended to make Traveller culture visible in schools whilst providing fun reading material for any child.

Full size Barreltop wagon as part of Cork European Capital of Culture

Traveller culture exhibit in Cork Public Museum

Nearly twenty years after it’s first edition, Clotty Malotty and Her Friends returns to print. This book focuses on rhymes from the settled and Traveller community of North Dublin but it opens the doorway to explore rhymes from different cultures around the world. Rhymes, ditties, lullabies and jingles are universal and are part of the heritage of every culture. This book supports a developmental education approach through discussion around the roots of rhymes and what they tell us about living conditions in ‘the old days’ and can act as a prompt for a wider discussion about poverty, justice and fairness in the world today.

A diva with a disability. Fluff, flare and attitude, the Baby Doll Project is a comical piece with a dark and pointed history.

Stories and songs from Johnny Cassidy and Kitty Cassidy Andy Cassidy recorded by Alen MacWeeney 1967 at Labre Park, Ballyfermot, Dubln