TY - BOOK AU - Burke,Mary TI - 'Tinkers': Synge and the cultural history of the Irish traveller SN - 9780191721670 (ebook) : AV - PR5534 U1 - 822.912 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Synge, J. M. KW - Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566464.001.0001 ER -