Author Archives: dougdevaney

“Bridging the gap to Ireland and England? Yeah. That’s a huge part of who I am.”

“Nobody has a monopoly on suffering. The world breaks everybody.”

“Everything’s on your doorstep. The strangeness of Ireland is on your doorstep.”

“We’ve been very valuable and very creative and knowledgeable and intelligent and beautiful.”

“Deliberate amnesia, that’s what that was about.”

“I think there are a thousand ways to be a Traveller…but, you know, I’d ride or die for my family. That’s it.”

“Where I’m from is not just a geography. It’s taken a long time to realise that.”

“It’s never people. It’s always governments.”

“It’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s who we are as people.”

“We don’t get big for our boots here. That’s boasting.”