Gypsy Empire by Eamon Dillon

Gypsy Empire by Eamon Dillon

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Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. Gypsy Empire delves into the heart of Traveller life, focusing on three aspects that have coloured perceptions of Travellers among the wider community: family feuds, bare-knuckle fights and trading.

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Gypsy Empire by Eamon Dillon

Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. Gypsy Empire delves into the heart of Traveller life, focusing on three aspects that have coloured perceptions of Travellers among the wider community: family feuds, bare-knuckle fights and trading.
Eamon Dillon is a prize-winning journalist with the Sunday World newspaper in Dublin where he is Assistant Editor (Crime and Security). His first book The Outsiders: Exposing the Secretive World of Ireland’s Travellers was a best-seller in Ireland and established him as an authority on Traveller-related issues. His second book was The Fraudsters: How Con Artists Steal Your Money. He has been a guest speaker at the Toronto Fraud Police annual conference as well as at Google HQ in Dublin on the topic of fraud and social engineering. In 2009 he received the Ruhama Award in Journalism for his investigative piece into the organised sex-trade in Ireland. Follow him on Twitter: @EamoD
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ISBN 13 9781848271692
ISBN 10 1848271697
Title Gypsy Empire
Author Eamon Dillon
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published 2013-09-26
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.