Introduction; 'Gipsies' and 'tinkers': identifying nomadic groups in Ireland; Intimate strangers: the people of the roads; Travellers in urban areas: landscape and community; Welfare and entitlement: assessing 'impatient and promiscuous charity'; Some practical suggestions: the government response, 1949-63; Assimilation and absorption: the settlement programme, 1963-70. Conclusion; Epilogue: Resettlement and resistance since 1970; Appendix: Legal glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Aoife Bhreatnach is a graduate of University College Cork and De Montfort University. She has held the Irish Government Senior Scholarship at Hertford College, Oxford and an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
"a thorough-going academic study" Books Ireland Oct 2006 "I would recommend Bhreatnach's Becoming Conspicuous without reservation to any Irish Studies class, for it is an excellent analysis of both the societal changes in the Republic since Independence and the situation of Travellers in this new climate." Journal of British Studies 2007 "Serious historical study of Traveller/non-Traveller relations in Ireland is long overdue and this book is a welcome pioneer ... offers much to the close reader and will be a key resource and guide for future researchers." Irish Studies Review 15 (4) 2007 "will be the indispensable starting point for any future historical work on Irish Ttravellers in the twentieth century." Thomas Acton - University of Greenwich Irish Economic and Social History 2008
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