'Tinkers'
Title | 'Tinkers' PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Burke |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2009-07-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191570613 |
The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure's cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge's empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the 'tinker' fantasy that has shaped contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Traveler as lovable 'white trash' rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the 'tinker' is much more central to Irish, Northern Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognised.
Tinker's Sea
Title | Tinker's Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen B. Pearl |
Publisher | Brain Lag |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2016-07-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1928011152 |
Oil reserves depleted. Society collapsed. A few places cling to modern technology. For everywhere else, there are the Tinkers. In southern Ontario, Novo Gaia uses sustainable energy to support its citizens in comfort. From there, Novo Gaia sends Doctors of Applied General Technology, tinkers, into the Dark Lands to install everything from solar stills to televisions—and make a profit. After twenty years as an E.R. nurse, Tabitha “Tabby” Drivensky’s failing marriage sent her into the tinker program and the open waters of the Great Lakes. While fulfilling her Coast Guard service obligation, she rescues a boy named Andy Camble from a sinking ship. Andy turns out to have vital information on Packer, a pirate captain who has been plaguing the Great Lakes for generations in an ancient, nuclear-powered submarine. Using Andy’s intelligence, Tabby sets out ostensibly to scout out a new aquatic tinker route along Lake Huron but secretly assigned by Novo Gaia to find and put an end to Packer once and for all.
Tinker, Evers, and Chance
Title | Tinker, Evers, and Chance PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Bogen |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2003-11-13 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780786416813 |
Though they never led the league in double plays turned, and though at times they actively disliked one another, Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance of the Chicago Cubs have for decades been called one of the greatest, most colorful and most memorable double-play combinations of all time. But their places in the Hall of Fame have been disputed by some who believe their reputation rests with a piece of Franklin P. Adams doggerel. This triple biography of Tinker, Evers, and Chance covers each man's career and life before and after baseball, giving special attention to their relationship on and off the field. The author also considers the trio's induction into the Hall of Fame in 1946 and examines the arguments made on both sides of the debate.
Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More
Title | Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More PDF eBook |
Author | Alen MacWeeney |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The slow passing of an itinerant culture in Ireland
Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society
Title | Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society PDF eBook |
Author | Gypsy Lore Society |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Romanies |
ISBN |
Printers' Ink; the ... Magazine of Advertising, Management and Sales
Title | Printers' Ink; the ... Magazine of Advertising, Management and Sales PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1888 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Advertising |
ISBN |
The Shamrock
Title | The Shamrock PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 894 |
Release | 1870 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |