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Nan: The Life Of An Irish Travelling Woman: Sharon Gmelch
Nan: The Life Of An Irish Travelling Woman: Sharon Gmelch
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Nan Donohoe was an Irish Travelling woman, one of Ireland's indigenous gypsies or "tinkers." Traditionally, they traveled the countryside making and repairing tinware, sweeping chimneys, selling small household wares and doing odd-job work. Today, they live on the roadside in trailers and in government-built camps. Told largely in her own voice, Nan's saga begins in 1919 with her birth in a tent in the Irish Midlands; it follows her life in Ireland and England, in countryside and city slums, through adversity and adventure. Nan herself is seen as a person, not a subject. What emerges is a human story, filled with cruelty and compassion, sorrow and humor, bad luck and good. With black and white photographs.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, Large paperback; 1st printing by Pavanne 1987; very faint spine crease; very faint shelfwear; tightly bound and clean withinShare
