Travellers don’t fit in, but that’s because our society won’t let them

Travellers represent our own recent past and they won’t let us forget it. That is why we fear them, writes Victoria White

My mother’s close friend Sheila Pim was a celebrated gardener, writer of horticultural thrillers and the biographer of horticulturalist Augustine Henry.

But when I was a child she was just another posh old bat. Then she did something incredible. She got the council to build a house for Travellers in her back garden in Bray, Co Wicklow.