Cork Traveller Women’s Network is a Traveller-led community development project, working for Traveller rights in Cork and this includes promoting Traveller culture and heritage and challenging negative stereotypes of the community.

They have a base at Triskel and have worked strategically together since 2017, as a joint response to the national recognition of Travellers as an indigenous ethnic group. This includes programming Cork Traveller Pride events and bringing Traveller musicians, cinema, visual arts and storytelling to the artistic programming of Triskel.

The partnership supports increasing access to the arts for the Traveller community on multiple levels and also gives a platform to Traveller voices through the arts. CTWN believe that collaboration on this level between an arts organisation and a Traveller community development organisation is unique in Ireland.

For Culture Night, they present a series of short films on Traveller culture.

A Short History of Irish Travellers

Cork Traveller Women’s Network with animator Hazel Hurley / 2020 / 5 minsAn animation written and narrated by Traveller women tells the story of Irish Travellers, as an ethnic group, the recent history, dispelling some of the myths about Traveller origins.

Missling on the Tobar

Cork Traveller Women’s Network with Wombat Media / 2021 / 3 mins

Short film celebrating the network of 24 traditional Traveller nomadic camp sites around Cork city.

Travellers Speak out about Discrimination

Cork Traveller Women’s Network with Hazel Hurley / 2021 / 4 mins

Animation created from interviews with Traveller women living in Cork about the impact of discrimination.

Freedom

Produced by Galway Traveller Movement with Alice McDowell / 2023 / 3 mins

A short film from the series ‘The Heart of the Traveller People’.

Tales of the Road

Directed and produced by Noel Twomey (Go Productions) for Cork Community Television with the assistance of the Traveller Visibility Group and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland/ 2014 / 26 mins

A unique look into a rarely seen, and slowly vanishing, part of contemporary Traveller life – the racing and husbandry of horses by the boys and men of the Spring Lane halting site.