Studies in Arts and Humanities (Dec 2017)

The Traveller Ethnicity Quilt: An Interview with Missie Collins

  • Collins, Missie,
  • Buggle, Jane,
  • O'Neill, Marie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18193/sah.v3i2.113
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 131 – 134

Abstract

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Missie Collins is an Irish Traveller. She is a Pavee Point Primary Healthcare for Travellers worker. Missie and a group of Traveller women designed and handmade the Traveller Ethnicity Quilt to mark the official recognition of the ethnicity of Travellers by the Irish Government in March 2017. This interview took place on Friday 19th November 2017.