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Library
Research Library.
The evidence, scholarship and knowledge that sits underneath TraVision’s work.
Many stories.One shared thread.
A transparent research base
One place to follow the evidence.
The TraVision Research Library brings together the historical, legal, scientific, cultural and community sources that inform our work.
Our research crosses disciplines because the questions we examine cannot be understood through a single field. The Library is designed to hold historical scholarship, primary documents, legislation, government reports, Irish Traveller voices, Indigenous and decolonial scholarship, population research, microbiome research and TraVision’s own research.
The purpose is transparency: to make visible the evidence, scholarship and knowledge from which our work has developed.
Available now
Current TraVision research entries.
The book below combines the twelve research fields with every approved TraVision reading, project and media archive currently on this website. Use the index, turn the pages, or search by title and subject.
Searches the approved TraVision entries already indexed in this book. Open a result to go directly to its full page.
16 current entries in the book
- Irish Traveller history: a fuller picture
- Identity is a health issue
- What does decolonisation mean?
- Our account of Leinster House
- From Sligo to Geneva
- The Last Clans Standing
- What the genetics can tell us
- Culture, environment and the microbiome
- Colonisation, identity and suicide
- Impact & Partnership Report 2026
- Outside the Colony
- How we approach research
- The evidence base
- Outside The Colony video library
- Ongoing Colonisation, Settlement and Suicide among Irish Travellers
- Oireachtas Joint Committee · 7 May 2026
Research · evidence · knowledge
TraVision Library
A living research library from TraVision Foundation.
Book index
G–L
Ireland & Colonialism
Conquest, Tudor Ireland, the English Pale, plantations, Cromwellian settlement, land dispossession, Anglicisation and the development of British colonial structures.
Current entries
Gaelic Ireland & Historical Continuity
Gaelic society, land, kinship, law, language, mobility, culture and historical continuity.
Current entries
Irish Traveller History
Irish Traveller history, ethnography, cultural studies, autobiographies, oral history and Irish Traveller-authored material.
Current entries
Law & State Control
Historical and modern legislation concerning vagrancy, movement, land, housing, public order, animals, trading and Irish Traveller accommodation.
Current entries
Assimilation & Education
The Commission on Itinerancy, education policy, settlement policy, institutional language and assimilation.
Current entries
Postcolonial Ireland
Scholarship examining Ireland after independence, colonial inheritance, nationalism, identity and the possibility of internal colonial structures.
Current entries
Indigenous & Decolonial Research
International Indigenous scholarship concerning colonial continuity, cultural continuity, self-determination, identity, wellbeing and decolonisation.
Current entries
Genetics & Origins
Population genetics, archaeology and historical research relevant to Irish Traveller origins and continuity.
Current entries
Microbiome, Health & Environment
Microbiome research, environmental exposure, animal contact, health, stress, industrialisation and the biological consequences of changes in lifeways.
Current entries
Primary Sources & Government Documents
Historical reports, legislation, commissions, parliamentary documents, official reports and archival sources.
Current entries
Irish Traveller Voices
Irish Traveller testimony, literature, interviews, oral history, cultural material and community knowledge.
Current entries
TraVision Research
TraVision papers, reports, evidence submissions, policy work, research projects and related publications once supplied and verified for the catalogue.
Current entries
Index · 1 of 7
The book turns gently on its own. Hover, focus, search or start a reading to hold the current pages in place.
Current entries only.
The book contains the approved TraVision website entries available now. The wider master bibliography has not yet been supplied and will be added from verified source metadata rather than invented here.
Featured research
Curation concepts for the expanding Library.
These are proposed ways of grouping approved material later. They are intentionally not displayed as current books, papers or source records.
The Making of Ireland’s Colonial State
A future curated route through approved sources on colonial structures, land, law and state formation.
Irish Traveller History
A future route through approved Irish Traveller-authored, historical, ethnographic and oral-history material.
The 1963 Commission on Itinerancy
A future focus connecting approved primary material with research on assimilation, education, housing and settlement policy.
Colonial Legal Continuity
A future research focus for approved legal, historical and postcolonial sources that speak to continuity and change.
Irish Traveller Microbiome Research
A future focus connecting approved microbiome, environmental, health and lifeways research.
Indigenous & Decolonial Scholarship
A future route through approved international scholarship on cultural continuity, self-determination, wellbeing and decolonisation.
Research collections
Curated pathways, ready for verified sources.
Collections will help visitors follow a question across disciplines without flattening every source into the same kind of evidence.
Planned collection concept
Colonial Ireland Collection
English Pale · Tudor conquest · plantations · Cromwellian settlement · land · law · Anglicisation
Planned collection concept
Irish Traveller State Policy Collection
Commission material · education · housing · vagrancy law · accommodation policy
Planned collection concept
Irish Traveller Origins & Continuity Collection
Historical sources · population genetics · cultural research · oral history · Irish Traveller-authored material
Planned collection concept
Microbiome & Lifeways Collection
Microbiome research · environmental exposure · animal contact · health · industrialisation · gut-brain research
Source-card architecture
Enough context to judge a source for yourself.
Every future source record is designed to show what it is, why it is here, how it relates to other work and what visitors are actually permitted to read or download.
Metadata a verified source can carry
- Title
- Author(s)
- Editor(s)
- Publication date
- Publisher
- ISBN
- Source type
- Category
- Subcategory
- Short description
- Why the source is relevant
- Key themes
- Historical period
- Geographic focus
- Keywords / tags
- Related TraVision research
- Related sources
- External source / publisher link
- Read / download permission
- Citation information
Read online
Shown only when TraVision is able to provide or reproduce the full text appropriately.
Download PDF
Offered source by source only where permission allows it. Uploaded books are never made public automatically.
Publisher or archive
Where TraVision cannot host a document, the verified record can point to an external publisher, archive or official source instead.
Copy citation
Once verified citation metadata exists, a clean citation can be copied without changing the underlying bibliographic record.
A knowledge network
Show the relationship.
Do not overstate the claim.
The Library is designed to connect sources while preserving the difference between evidence, context, interpretation and TraVision’s own conclusions.
Verified source→Why this matters→Related sources→Used in TraVision research
Why this matters
A source is not treated as proof of TraVision’s position merely because it appears in the Library. A verified record can state the role it actually plays:
- Direct evidence
- Historical context
- Competing interpretation
- Challenges an assumption
- Methodological support
- Primary evidence
- Chronology
TraVision connections
Where an approved source has been used directly in TraVision work, the record can link to that publication, policy submission, public evidence or research page. Connections are shown only when that use has been verified.
Related sources
Cross-links can help a reader follow chronology, disagreement, corroboration or different disciplinary perspectives without pretending that connected sources all say the same thing.
The next stage
Build the catalogue from TraVision’s bibliography.
This static phase establishes the public Library architecture only. No CMS, database or Laravel system is being added now. TraVision can supply the master bibliography next, with approved metadata, links and permissions for each source.
The same architecture leaves room for later timelines, maps, photographs, scanned documents, oral histories, audio, video, datasets and other archival material without presenting any of those as already available.
