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| Titre : | The Itinerant problem : the attitude of Dublin and Stormont governments to Irish Travellers, 1922-60 (2006) |
| Auteurs : | Aoife BHREATNACH, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 35 n 137 2006) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 81-98 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The importance to Irish Travellers of the border with Norhern Ireland, historically, is difficult to ascertain. Families with limited travel circuits in the southern counties may have considered it irrelevant, while Travellers living in border counties probably traversed it with ease. How the political boundary hindered nomadic life depended to a large extent on the Stormont and Dublin administrations and on how each jurisdiction treated caravan and tent dwellers. A comparison of north and south in the period from partition to 1960 illustrates how Travellers were regarded in each jurisdiction, demonstrating the contrast between the administration of two distinct polities with a common legal and administrative tradition. Each administration faced the same quandary: how could complaints about a despised but tiny minority be addressed without exceeding the limits of the state's coercive power? Could measures designed to target Travellers have serious implications for all citizens? |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Aoife Bhreatnach |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
