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[A] spare but lovely book, a stirring cultural miscellany from a community that remains invisible to many-in both the general public and the historic record ( like so many marginalised people ). As MacWeeney notes, Theirs was a bigger life than mine, with its daily struggle for survival ; in page after page of beautiful black and white photos, that struggle is captured in the Travellers' faces, by turns despairing, hopeful, joyous and solemn, but also belied in scenes of celebration, laughter and music-making. If there's a fault to find, it's in the volume's brevity; like the Travellers themselves, it's gone before you're ready to stop looking and learning. --Publishers' Weekly (Starred Review)

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Alen MacWeeney was born in Dublin and came to the United States at age 21 to become assistant to renowned photographer Richard Avedon. He soon established himself as a contributor to such journals as the New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine. He has produced seven books, including Bloomsbury Reflections, Irish Stone Walls and Fabled Landscapes, and Spaces for Silences (2002). The feature length documentary film Traveller, inspired by MacWeeney's photographs, and which he co-directed, was broadcast on RTE in Ireland in 2002 and by the BBC in 2003. Bairbre Ni Fhloinn of the Department of Irish Folklore at University College Dublin contributes an introduction to Irish Travellers and transcribes from MacWeeney's tapes five remarkable stories told by Traveller Johnny Cassidy, providing notes to the stories, as well as to the songs on the CD included with the book.

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