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University of Galway has announced plans to celebrate Irish Traveller Ethnicity Week with a week-long series of events across campus.

The Misleór Festival of nomadic cultures will run in the city until October 1 with a vibrant programme featuring music, film, poetry, talks and visual art from Traveller, Roma, Sámi, Mongolian, Australian Aboriginal and Romany Gypsy communities.

The talent and perseverance of Galway's Traveller community were put on proud display at the 'Misleór Changemakers, Celebrating Galway Artists and Activists' organised by Galway Traveller Movement on Friday, July 14 at the Taibhdhearc Theatre.

The talent and perseverance of Galway's Traveller community were put on proud display at the 'Misleór Changemakers, Celebrating Galway Artists and Activists' organised by Galway Traveller Movement on Friday, July 14 at the Taibhdhearc Theatre.

Mainstream cinema often portrays Traveller and Roma communities through narrow stereotypes of violence, criminality or mysticism, while less widely seen cultural cinema has forged a small but significant tradition of more authentic and celebratory representations.

The festival programme includes eight feature length films from a variety of countries including Pavee Lackeen (2005), Irish made film Float Like a Butterfly (2018), Fellini classic La Strada (1954), French film Gagarine (2020) and the critically acclaimed An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013).

University of Galway has appointed its second ever full-time Traveller Education Officer to lead on the recruitment of and support students from the Irish Traveller community.

Ten Irish Travellers have been recognised after completing the Access Centre’s Educational Transition Project by University of Galway.

Have you ever sat with an elderly Irish Traveller and asked them what their life was like?