A 3-part art project in 2018 that aimed to show a way of integrating Traveller culture into mainstream museums and galleries

Pavee Point collaborated on this project with Seamus Nolan, Hugh Lane and Create.

The new exhibition Accommodate vs. Assimilate by Leanne McDonagh investigates the devastating housing crises and human rights violations endured by the Irish Travelling Community in contemporary Ireland. Commissioned especially for Triskel.

A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.  Written by John Connors and Mark O'Connor. Directed by Mark O'Connor.

Made with with Cornish gypsy Viv Legg

10 weeks of tinsmithing classes for Traveller men at Collins Barracks.

We share a history, we share a memory and they both share my heart. Written by ROSALEEN McDONAGH Directed by JIM CULLETON Set Design by NIAMH LUNNY Lighting Design by SARAH JANE SHIELS Sound Design by DENIS CLOHESSY Video Design by NEIL O’DRISCOLL Cast  - John Connors, Neili Conroy, Gráinne Hallahan, Donal Toolan

A two-hander play, performed by Michael Collins and his 10-year-old son, Johnny. The pair use songs and poetry to tell the story of a family who fear eviction in the wake of the Carrickmines fire.

13 Traveller women, aged from their early 20s to 60s and based in halting sites across the city, who took part in the museum’s outreach programme. Their medium was glass, and they learned to work with it over eight weeks with an artist.

An experiential art installation creating new knowledge and understanding on suicide among Travellers.

‘Lived Lives’ features a series of artworks created by artist Dr Seamus McGuinness of Galway Mayo Institute of Technology in collaboration with Professor Kevin Malone of UCD Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health. The artist uses textile to invoke the sense of loss and pain caused by suicide in the Traveller community and leaves one with a haunting sense of absence.

5 Gigs and open mic at Cobblestone Pub Smithfield 2gigs in Kerry

In 2014 the Hunt Museum, through the Communities of Culture initiative began working with community groups from the North-side and South-side of Limerick. Exploring their unique cultural experiences and heritages through a series of targeted community and museum-based projects.

People across Limerick were invited to join the online launch of The One Million Stars to End Violence Limerick Project on 8 March 2021 (International Women’s Day.)

Traveller Women Awareness Worker in Carlow was involved in this.

After his son’s death, Jim has become isolated from other family members and is misusing alcohol. The audience accompanies Jim on an emotional roller-coaster ride as he articulates loving memories of his son, his fears for the well-being of his other three children, the turmoil that has developed in his relationship with his wife, his anger at God, and his agonising questions about whether there was something he could have done to prevent his son’s death.

She's Not Mine By Rosaleen McDonagh

The story of a mother and the daughter she entrusted to an institution.  This is a play for radio that was broadcast on RTE Radio One. 

‘Rings’ a play by Rosaleen McDonagh focusing on the experiences of a deaf Traveller woman was presented originally as a staged reading as part of Turning Point: A Reading of Four Short Plays by Writers With Disabilities by Fishamble; The New Play Company and Arts & Disability Ireland on 31 March 2010.  Corrib Theatre Company in Portland Oregon, USA, produced ‘Rings’ in November, 2020

A re-release of of cassette and book by the European Ethnic Oral Traditions (1983) and collected by Tom Munnelly.

An intimate portrait of Winnie, a resilient and spirited young girl, and her family who are Irish Travellers, living on the side of the road in an industrialised area of Dublin. It follows Winnie through several weeks of her life, as she struggles with her identity as a young Traveller girl in contemporary Ireland.  At the 2005 IFTA Awards, Director Perry Ogden won Breakthrough Talent and Winnie Maughan was nominated for Best Actress in a Feature Film.  The film was also nominated and a winner at a variety of film festivals.

In ‘It's a cultural thing ... or is it?, Writer and actor Michael Collins brings the audience on a cross-generational journey, exploring Traveller culture from various perspectives.

15 recordings from 1950s to 2005 - 20th anniversary of PP

Full size Barreltop wagon as part of Cork European Capital of Culture

Traveller culture exhibit in Cork Public Museum

A diva with a disability. Fluff, flare and attitude, the Baby Doll Project is a comical piece with a dark and pointed history.

Stories and songs from Johnny Cassidy and Kitty Cassidy Andy Cassidy recorded by Alen MacWeeney 1967 at Labre Park, Ballyfermot, Dubln