title: American Outsider: Stories from the Irish Traveller Diaspora
author:  T. Foy Vernon 
description: T. Foy Vernon is an Irish-American Traveller of mixed Irish and Scottish descent. He has worked as a Tradesmen, Auto Mechanic, School Teacher and Advertising Executive. He lives in the Midwest with his wife and children in a proud Gammon/Cant speaking household. <br />Dr. Michael O'hAodha lectures in the Department of History and Comparative Literature at the University of Limerick. He has published widely on the history and culture of Irish migrants and the Irish Diaspora. Amongst his recent books is: Irish Travellers: Representations and Realities; Dublin: Liffey Press (2006).
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   **Contents**
  
  [Cover](kindle:embed:0001?mime=image/jpg)
  
  About the Book
  
  About the Author
  
  Title Page
  
  Dedication
  
  Prologue
  
  Traveller Life
  
  Country Life
  
  Round One
  
  Becoming a Doherty
  
  Daddy’s Boy
  
  All’s Fair in Love and War
  
  My Gypsy Wedding
  
  My Woman
  
  My Patrick
  
  Up in Smoke
  
  Family Fortunes
  
  Life and Death
  
  Fists of Fury
  
  Winning and Losing
  
  Work, Fight and Play
  
  19 July 1996
  
  Sins of the Father
  
  Digging Deep
  
  Marathon Man
  
  Home Sweet Home
  
  My Margaret
  
  The Fair Play Man
  
  The Day I Died
  
  Britain’s Deadliest Man
  
  Acceptance
  
  One Last Fight
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  Copyright
  
  About the Book
  
   _‘I am proud of who I am and what I am. I teach my children to be proud too.
  Because being a traveller means everything to me. It’s not just a label, it
  goes much deeper. It’s an identity that is burned into my heart.’_
  
  Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt
  like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare oc