Oein DeBhairduin ✨

Mincéir tashler, ly-fein, writer/ author/ maker of inyox & notions! Inclusive Histories Curator for Traveller Culture with @NMIreland. Tori'er, Personal Acc.

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

I'm coping well.

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

2021: The Emigrant’s Teapot by tinsmith Mike Maughan from Tuam.

2023: The wonderful Chloe McDonagh’s powerful Pisogue Project stamp works tracing Traveller journeys, identity & resilience.

2026: The Minceir-Pavee stamps.

Our stories continue to travel x

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Today, the President, in her welcome to the Aras, for afternoon tea celebrating Traveller culture, opened with "Mo Geels, Gralta" - "My people, Welcome" - in Gammon-Cant our language 🥰

https://t.co/0TEzdpC3Bl

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

I know many Mincéirí / Travellers have been frustrated by the most recent census - as while many, though no where enough of us, have a sense of space and lore of location, many are just not recorded.

Delighted to find this ancestor and kin:

"No Fixed Residence" x

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Tues, May 5th @ 6pm @ Books Upstairs Dublin ✨

PLEASE JOIN US for a glass of wine, a celebratory reading & panel discussion on 'State, in Relation'
w/ @NiChurr @SonyaGildea @STomaselli @sonyagildea @nithykasa @ClareBell_

Event is free, reg required:
https://t.co/IXpWbEXfL9

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Elder words meeting modern lights - Travellers moving amongst the ages :)

#MinceirAswuirt #TravellersRising #GammonCant #Shelta

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Whether you make the Brat Bride, mind the Brídeóg, walk Brigid’s Way, or arrive led only by sheer nosiness and curiosity, you are welcomed to the celebrations :)

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Finding Bridget ✨
St Brigid’s Day 2026 screening by Cork Traveller Visibility Group.
A new short film exploring the significance of the name Brigid in Traveller culture & the connections to Brigid in her many ways:

https://t.co/WEgQPKRYDR

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Little Christmas, Old Christmas, Nollaig na mBan - names shift & the meaning grows. Image by Ellen (Cork), celebrating Gypsy, Traveller & Roma women, and the countless unseen labours of women too often without space or acknowledgement x

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

'Waiting For Snow' drifts out and off onto the airwaves this Christmas: a gathering of radio essays by a glistening array of fierce writers, with a wee small piece of my own speckled among the delightful graupel - airing on 29th & 30th December at 1.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1 x

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Burri Galyon Talosk xxx

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

This is a call to be a witness.

Among others ‘The Quiet Between Two Texts’, a glimpse between the Irish Constitution & the 1963 Report of the Commission on Itinerancy - a text largely unknown outside of those that have felt it's serrated teeth.

Temple Bar Gallery 4pm tomorrow x

[Annemarie Ní Churreáin @NiChurr]

📌 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 launches at Dublin Art Book Fair, Sunday 14 December | 4pm. 🔥 𝘖𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 is on view in the atrium of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin🌎These two interconnected projects respond to the Irish Constitution💪Bígí linn

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Got to spend yesterday with the Balbriggan Travellers Project working on the Tinsmith Apprenticeship Programme  - a wonderful experience forging tools that will be used in the next phase of the Tinsmith course with master Tinsmith James Collins

A hammer for the collection too!

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

State in Relation launches 14 Dec 4pm at Temple Bar Gallery+Studios

An evening exploring the Irish Constitution as a living, shifting thing, with offerings from seven creatives.

Also showing: Omitted Provisions (5–14 Dec).

Mine, a mirror to the commission on Itinerancy 1963 x

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

Tonight I was blessed to launch an exhibition in Trinity’s Long Room.

Its shelves are empty for restoration, but now filled with books made by Traveller children.

For now, one of the world’s great libraries holds only their voices x

#PATH #Bookmark #BTAP

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

I grew up with ‘Old Edward’, even in his late 70s he loved learning new Traveller words:

“Three days after, I’d think of each word… it’s wonderful.”

Every story, recording, text is a sacred gift xxx

🔗 https://t.co/a9yVwYvaGB

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

@liznangel3 @misleor @gtmtrav Just Galway at the moment Liz but will be presented at @Misleor (which your more then welcomed to!)

https://t.co/byVxqpdyDN

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

On the train to Galway - as one of the visiting guests as part of the 'If Hazel could talk' programme for this years Misleór - recording and documenting traditional ways of surviving and thriving - delighted with life so I am!

[Oein DeBhairduin ✨ @Oeiny]

My grīs! Why The Moon Travels in Farsi, translated and gorgeously illustrated by @@Roxymanouchehri and published by Nazarart publication! Words fail where acts succeed x What a joy! Travel far xxx