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- Nan Joyce (1940 – 7 August 2018) was an Irish Travellers' rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish general election, in 1982.
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Sep 7, 2020 · Joyce trained as a Norland Nanny in London and worked as such for a number of years. On Sunday, she even had a visit from Miriam, who Joyce looked after as baby.
- Carly Roberts
Sep 9, 2021 · Joyce Wooding was born in Staverton, near Daventry, on September 6, 1911, to a farming family where she lived with her mum, dad, two brothers and sister, before she trained in London as a Norland...
- Carly Odell
Aug 8, 2018 · Nan Joyce, a trailblazer for Traveller rights who campaigned for equality for decades, has died in Belfast aged 78. Born in 1940 in Tipperary, Joyce (née O'Donoghue) was the second eldest in...
- Sorcha Pollak
Jul 7, 2023 · Prosecutor Carolie Rees said the attack on the victim, a grandmother of eight and who was known to her family as “Nanny Joyce”, occurred during a period when the defendant’s mental health had “seriously deteriorated”.
Aug 8, 2018 · Tipperary-born Nan Joyce (78) was the second eldest in a family of 11 and was raised travelling across Ireland with her family. In the early 1980s, she co-founded the Committee for the...
- Ian Begley
Aug 10, 2018 · Nan Joyce, the Traveller activist who died this week, was "a person who refused to be a victim," mourners at her funeral have been told. "Forced to live in the gutter, she always looked to...
Nan Joyce (1940-2018) was an Irish Travellers’ rights activist. Born in Tipperary, Joyce (née O’Donoghue) was the second eldest in a family of 11 children and was brought up travelling the roads of Ireland with her family.
