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'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller

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Author:: Mary Burke
Publisher:: OUP Oxford
Publication Date:: Sep 28, 2009
Number of pages:: 344 pages
Binding:: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10:: 0199566461
ISBN-13:: 9780199566464

Overview

Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions.