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Hebron Road. Co.Kilkenny. Republic of Ireland. 03/08/2011
A young boy from the Traveller community near his home off the Hebron Road in Kilkenny. Travellers, as individuals and as a group, experience a high level of prejudice and exclusion in Irish society.
From the book The Republic (Allen Lane, 2016) Seamus Murphy's personal and immediate look at his native Ireland on the eve of the 100th anniversary of its revolutionary Easter Rising, which paved the way for independence for the south of the island, the Republic of Ireland.