This event is a celebration of a workshops undertaken by Traveller men who created copper pieces of art. The work will be on exhibit and through the exhibition and personal stories the Travellers who took part in the workshops will share their experience with their families and the wider population who will attend the event. This will facilitate discussions around reducing stigma and shame in talking about one’s own mental health, seeking help and offering support. The project was run between Traveller organisations and Mental Health Services in the area

Balbriggan Development Group

Ballyfermot Traveller Action Group will be promoting two of the oldest residents in Labre Park, itself Dublin’s oldest halting site. The voices of older Travellers are hidden and yet they hold so much history. Some of this history is traumatic but also important. Recordings of these voices will be made so these histories can become a tool and resource for the future. These residents were in the Cherry Orchard encampment as children and were moved to Labre Park when it was first opened. The Celebration of the Oldest residents of Labre Park will take place in the Mansion House and is hosted by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Councillor Daithí de Róiste. The event starts at 11.30 am. Numbers are limited and registration is necessary. Please contact shaybtap@gmail.com to register your interest in attending

St. Catherine’s Community Services has linked in with Meath Traveller Workshop to present the Traveller Living History Project with barrel top wagon, tinsmithing and other traditional crafts. Carlow Traveller Forum is also undertaking a multi-disciplinary art project to explore particular Traveller histories and stories in the area and also present some of these through poetry. Event from 10am to 1pm.

Location - St Catherine’s Community Services Centre, Carlow.

Workshops will be held to redecorate a restored Traveller wagon on 27th May at Avila Park, Finglas. On the 28th the wagon will be drawn by horse to Finglas Civic Centre where there will be a chance to interact with the wagonmakers and hear about Traveller traditions.

Location - Finglas Civic Centre, Finglas, Dublin 11

This is a national and local event bringing young Travellers together to explore culture and identity. This event provides a safe space for 60-80 young Travellers to discuss and reflect on issues hindering their voices being heard, looking at ways of instilling self-pride and increasing self-esteem and a vision for reaching their dreams as young Travellers. Music and the arts will be used as a medium to celebrate, and as a platform to encourage, young Travellers to using their talents and skills. Irish Traveller Movement National Youth Advisory Committee are leading out on this event.

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Kildare Traveller Action Group are running a number of events for Traveller Pride.

On the 21st there will be a Living History Project display in Newbridge where a Traveller youth group will perform ukulele and also photographic exhibition 11am to 4pm.

A similar event will be run in Athy on 23rd May 11am to 4pm.

Location - 21 May Royston Sports and Social Club Greatconnell, Newbridge, County , Kildare W12XT65

23 May - old Athy Travellers centre, beside St Michael’s Church, Monasterevin Road.

Louth Local Development in conjunction with Meath Traveller Workshops will bring their Traveller Living history exhibition to Dundalk from 12 - 3pm. This will consist of a full-size traditional Traveller camp including the barrel top wagon, a campfire, traditional tent, tin smith and a flat cart, complete with music and storytelling.

Louth Traveller women's group will have a display of traditional button aprons and paper flowers, as well as a paper flower workshop and face painting for the children.

Location -Redeemer Family Resource Centre, Árd Easmuinn, Demesne, Dundalk, Co. Louth

The National Traveller Women’s Forum will support Traveller women in the Dóchas centre at Mountjoy Prison by organising an event celebrating culture, promoting pride, awareness and understanding of Traveller heritage, and also focusing on care and well-being within in the Dóchas Centre.

This event aims to include staff and invited guests as well as Traveller women in the Dóchas Centre.

Along with Meath Traveller Workshop, Scurlogstown Olympiad CLG is hosting a Traveller Living History experience where people can experience Traveller traditions such as tinsmithing, cooking at the camp and storytelling. Event taking place 10am to 4pm.

Location - Scurlogstown Heritage Park

St. Joseph’s CBS is teaming up with Meath Traveller Workshop to bring the Traveller Living History Project to the school and the wider community. This will feature a traditional Traveller camp and showcase traditional skills such as tinsmithing and breadmaking. The event will be accompanied by flower-making workshops.

Location - St. Joseph’s CBS, Sunday Gate, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Wicklow Traveller will showcase aspects of the Traveller culture with two exhibitions of a range of art work, stories, photographs, artefacts, clothes and crafts in both Arklow library (17 May) and the community centre in Rathnew, Wicklow.(20 May). These exhibitions follow a 6 week art programme that 8 young Traveller girls completed with a young Traveller artist from the community and the Education worker from Wicklow Travellers Group.

There will also be a display from Shuttleknit (a

Traveller social enterprise based in Wicklow Traveller Group) along with information from the services provided by the Traveller organisation.

Location - Arklow Library and Rathnew Community Centre

St. Margaret’s Traveller Community Association will bring a group of residents together to celebrate Traveller Pride week in Ballymun in conjunction with Meath Traveller Workshop Living History Project. The event showcase Traveller traditions and will also include a health check day and refreshments.

Location - St Margaret’s Park, St. Margaret’s Road, Ballymun, Dublin 11

Screening of the film the Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan will launch Traveller Pride for Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group. The screening is at 11am and features a film of the theatre show ceated by 11 Traveller women, Traveller activist Catherine Joyce and theatre director Dylan Tighe and is a new version of the Lorca’s classic play ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’.

Location - Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Dublin 2.

Southside Traveller Action group will be showcasing their traditional barrel top wagon along with other traditional Traveller skills and crafts such as outdoor cooking and flower-making.

Location -St Kieran’s Enterprise Park, Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18, D18 C627

At 11 am on 21st May at the Blanchardstown library, Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group is hosting a conversation between Travellers and invited candidates in local and european elections.

Location - Blanchardstown Library, the Civic Centre, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15.

Tallaght Travellers are organising a video celebration of Traveller stories for Traveller Pride Week. The videos feature men, women and young people talking about their memories, their struggles and their aspirations.

Information - patricknevin@tallaghttravellerscdp.com

‘Unveiling Traveller Heritage" is a community-driven initiative aimed at showcasing and celebrating the rich cultural heritage of the Traveller community. Through a traditional camp display, the art of flower making, the vibrant colours and designs of traditional dress, and the mouthwatering aroma of freshly prepared griddle bread, we aim to offer a glimpse into the unique traditions and customs of Traveller culture. Additionally, a captivating photo exhibition will capture the essence of Traveller life, highlighting the beauty and resilience of a community whose voices are often unheard.

Location - Offaly Traveller Movement, Harbour Street, Tullamore, Co. Offaly

This is an exhibition compiled from images, stories & memories from the different Traveller generations. A book of the exhibition will also be available to take away. This project documents stories from older generations as well as documenting and recognising the movements and developments within Traveller culture in the last number of decades.

Further information Involve Youth Project Meath - youthprojectmeath@involve.ie

This event for Traveller women living in Northern Ireland is being hosted by STEP, on behalf of An Tearmann Traveller Women's Group, and will be delivered in partnership with PHA, Southern Trust and ECNI with support from Toybox.

Our aim is to create a space for Traveller women from across the North to have their voices heard by actively contributing to conversations on health, education and equality.

Participants will hear from other Traveller women who are making their voices heard on these important issues and will also have their own say on what needs to change.

Date & Time: 29th May 2024, 9.30am- 2.00pm

Pre-registration is essential. For further information, please contact frances.marshall@stepni.org

Clare Traveller CDP will host an outdoor event this year, working in collaboration with Meath

Travellers Workshop, the event will showcase a living history experience which will recreate a real

life picture of Traveller lives in the 1950s. The scene includes a fully restored barrel top wagon, a

traditional tent, campfire, a flat cart, tin-smith exhibition, storytelling and bread making. This is a family event, Clare Traveller CDP will provide refreshments for all attendees. Children’s entertainment including face-painting, magician, balloon making will be offered at the event. Other activities for children are planned using the running track/ sports facilities on site. Musical entertainment celebrating Clare Travellers traditional Irish music will be provided by the Keenan family.

Location – John O’Sullivan Sports Park, Lee’s Road, Ennis,Co. Clare. V95W560

East Limerick Traveller Pride 2024 will be a day of celebration, taking the form of inclusive activities and a vibrant showcase of Traveller culture to the wider East Limerick community. Collaborating with Meath Travellers Workshops, Traveller culture with be front and centre stage, with offerings of traditional barrel top wagon and fireside scene an art and sculpture exhibition and Traditional song and dance 11am to 3pm.

The event is being jointly organised by our East Limerick Traveller Primary Health Team and the Kilmallock Traveller Group.

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This 11am event will showcase and celebrate Traveller heritage and stories of the Spring Lane area. There will be food and singing by rising Traveller star singer Rosie McCarthy whose father is from the Spring Lane. There will be a display of old photos of the site and traditional Traveller camps in the area from the 1960s onwards. We will also showcase our Spring Lane Heritage Project ana our Black Ash oral history projects on our website. Part of this event is to paint two electrical boxes in a collaboration between an artist and Young Traveller Women’s Group. Organised by Cork Traveller Women’s Network.

Location: Glen Resource Centre, Glen Avenue, The Glen, Cork T23 DH95

At 10.30am there will be the launch of permanent Traveller space at Kerry Museum, . This space will feature a model campsite showing how Travellers lived. This model campsite will be built specifically for the exhibition. Other features will highlight the importance of Puck Fair to Travellers. This launch will also feature a workshop on CANT - the Traveller language.

Location - Kerry Museum, Ashe Memorial Hall, Denny St, Tralee, Co. Kerry, V92 CXE3

Minceiri Port Lairge are organising this event at Ballybeg which will feature life in a barrel top wagon and life in a wattle tent including traditional cooking outside. Travellers will talk about their experiences of life on the road and there will be entertainment for children for this family day out.

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Tipperary Rural Traveller Project will celebrate the richness of Traveller traditions in conjunction with Meath Traveller Living History Project. This will display a traditional wagon and recreation of a fireside scene. It will be accompanied by a photograph exhibition and traditional storytelling as well as display of Traveller tinsmithing, flowermaking and brown bread making - 10am to 5pm

Location - Spafield Family Resource Centre, Old Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, E25 CX31

This year’s Family Fun Day will have a strong emphasis on young, local, up and coming Traveller musicians with Helen Connors, who is active in the local YMCA, Helena McCarthy, Kane Dunne and Paddy Quilligan.

There will also be creative pursuits and activities for children including Bags of Hope paper flowermaking, pets corner and as a special - hairbraiding for Traveller girls and

sharing Traveller traditions relating to haircare. There will also be 5 a side football.

Location: Fitzgerald’s Park, Mardyke, Cork

Along alongside our partners at LGBT+ Ireland, Travellers of North Cork and Oein de Bharduin we aim to celebrate and reveal the unheard voices of LGBT+ community members and Traveller culture through spoken word performances.

Location - Nano Nagle Place, South Presentation Centre Ltd. Douglas StreetCork City T12 X70A

At this event Travellers will showcase their specific talents and skills to the wider community in West Cork such as flower making, tea leaf readings in the barrel top wagon, beady pocket making, storytelling, singing, and bread making.

Stalls with the various skills and products will be situated outdoors for the general public to participate.

Location - Kennedy Park, Clonakilty

This event will pay tribute to Travellers who have passed by placing ribbons on a memorial tree at Rossa Park where Travellers can write wishes/prayers. There will also e a puppet show, face painting and balloon making for the children with a picnic in the park.

Location -O’Donovan Rossa Memorial Park, 1 Marsh Rd, Marsh, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, P81 RR59

A screening of ‘Wheel of Dreams’ a recent short film created and produced by nine young Traveller girls from West Cork.

Travellers of North Cork are bringing together Traveller groups, schools and community groups from different towns in North Cork to celebrate Traveller culture and heritage and via stories, demonstrations of Traveller crafts such as tent building and flowermaking.

There will also be 3 films, produced by young Travellers screened, and giving their views on Traveller culture today. There will also be a film made by Charleville Traveller Women’s Group voicing the experiences of Travellers in homelessness

.There will also be a reading of a book written by the McDonagh family from Fermoy (supported by TNC, Lecheile FRC, UCC and CCC Library service) for younger children, depicting a young Traveller girls wishes for the future “Maggie May’s Dreams and Hopes”

Location - Le Chéile Family Resource Centre Mallow Community Campus Fair Street Mallow Co. Cork.