Mincéirs Archive - University of Galway

Mincéirs Archive is an archive of a growing collection of all types, complemented by historical documents and scholarly texts.

This collection focuses on Irish Travellers from the 1960s when Ireland transformed socially, economically and culturally; its impacts on the nomadic indigenous community and the dawn of the Traveller rights movement in Ireland and Europe. 

The collection contains items related to Traveller human rights, education, employment, accommodation, music, folklore and photographs of the community. In addition, it also includes material from current resources located within existing catalogues and collections including the Ritchie-Pickow and the Joe Burke Collections.