Interview relating to female travellers, skill and numeracy

Subject: Teaching numeracy and literacy to girls and boys

Interviewer: Catherine Fray

Interviewee: Breda O'Driscoll, Saint Finbarrs Training Centre, Brocklesby Street, Blackpool, Cork.

For example:

Catherine Fray: 'You see that would be your culture, I mean, you don't want to lose your culture do ye, really I mean ye don't want to lose the mm. old type things like, I said Tin Smiths there, and what your mother useta do and your grandmother make 'swag' and you have another name for it there now, what is it called, 'hawking' yeh, and that sort of mm. trading but [there is] a skill in that as well Breda is there?'

Breda O'Driscoll: 'There is, you'd have my, my grandmother is great with her hands at sewing and making blankets, we say crocheting and things like that, and they crochet so many blankets and they make pillas out of them and cushions. They sell them door to door and then in exchange for that. Its, its, its [ ] instead of begging they would get, its like profit, [ ] they kinda trade their things for clothes maybe for the children or maybe for money or food so on and so forth, so like, that still goes strongly today. I still got aunts, I do it myself'.

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