Travellers

Travellers

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Details

Location

Coalisland, Newry

Year

1979

Date

29 July 1993 (repeat transmission)

Length

28min 36sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm, film

colour

Source

BBC NI

Courtesy

BBC NI

Rights Holder

BBC NI

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Description

A documentary looking at the changing life of a travelling family caught between social antagonism, a strong sense of traveller identity and having to adjust to a changing world.

Shot List

General view of travellers camp site with caravans, sheds, horses. Men with gun dogs. This is the Ward family's camp at a disused quay in Newry. Reliance on scrap collecting rather than tin smithing. 04:48 Filling milk cans with water for the McDonagh family camp at Coalisland. Tom McDonagh and his extended family have lived there for nine years. His twenty-six grandchildren go to school. Interview with girl who doesn’t like school and has stopped. 08:17 Children playing hopscotch. 09:04 Woman bathing child in small tub inside caravan. Two children, outside, playing with model old style caravan. Children coming home from school. 10:25 Interview with woman inside caravan. 11:03 View of Tom McDonagh making a tin cup. Introduction of plastic and aluminium changed the travellers livelihood. 14:00 Interior classroom. 14:46 Children playing at camp. Close up of feet and muddy ground. 17:37 Family gathered around outside fire. Three women talking about needing to beg in the past. 19:42 Start of a cock fight. 20:20 Making repairs to a shed. 20:55 Coalisland. Interview with woman who would like toilets and water put in and they could continue to live there. 21:46 Storing scrap at site increases antagonism felt towards travellers. 22:50 Mary McDonagh washing clothes. Worried that tinker traditions are being lost. 25:30 Men throwing horse shoes. 27:20 Tin drum placed over fire, pot put on top, people eating.

Credits

Narrator – Bill Hunter; Photography – Rex Maidment; Sound –Peter Lindsay; Film Editor – Don O'Donovan; Producer – Bill Miskelly

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