Book Descriptions:

2009 is the centenary of the death of major early twentieth-century Irish playwright J.M. Synge, whose work constitutes some of the most influential but misunderstood representations of Travellers ('tinkers'), members of a minority that has existed on Ireland's margins for centuries. This volume is the first examination of the cultural history of the Traveller to trace that figure back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forwardto contemporary US screen depictions of the allied Irish-American Traveler. It constitutes both an accessible and landmark study of a critically-neglected community and an important reassessment ofthe legacy of Synge and a number of other twentieth-century Irish and British writers, both major and less well-known, who also depicted the tinker.




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