Tinkers : Synge and the cultural history of the Irish traveller /

The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinke...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Burke, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Summary:The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 329 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.
ISBN:9780191570612
0191570613
9780191721670
0191721670
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