Irish Travellers in popular culture

Irish Travellers have been portrayed on numerous occasions in popular culture.
The Riches is an ongoing FX television series starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as Wayne and Dahlia Malloy; the father and mother of an American family of Irish Traveller con artists and thieves. The series revolves around their decision to steal the identities of a dead "Buffer" family and hide out in their lavish mansion in suburban Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In Season 2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in Episode 18, "Up the Long Ladder", which aired on May 22, 1989, the Enterprise encounters a society, the Bringloidis, (cf brionglóid: meaning dream in the Irish language), that was founded by humans who left Earth centuries earlier to found a colony. They appear to be descended from Irish Travellers, possessing their accented form of the English language and a culture that appears very similar.
Season 2, Episode 21 of the NBC television show Law & Order: Criminal Intent titled "Graansha" focuses around the murder of a female probation officer who springs from a family of Irish Travellers.
Into the West tells the story of two Traveller boys running away from their drab home in Dublin.
In the Irish television soap opera The Riordans (1964-1979), many issues affecting the Traveller community were portrayed through the challenges faced by the Maher family.
The film Snatch features Brad Pitt as a comically stereotyped "Pikey" who is also a bareknuckle boxing champion. In one humorous incident, his Traveller Clan defrauds the film's protagonists by selling them a caravan that falls apart the minute they try to tow it from the premises.
The film Rob Roy features Liam Neeson and details the exploits of the early 18th century Highland clan chieftain Rob Roy MacGregor. The film opens with MacGregor clansmen retrieving stolen cattle from robbers they call "Tinkers." Later on the wife of Rob Roy, when commenting on potential economic misfortunes for their clan, dismisses any relationship between their status and that of "Tinkers."
The film Chocolat includes Johnny Depp as Roux, a leader of a group of Irish travellers.
Traveller is another film, starring Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, and Julianna Margulies.
The rural Irish sitcom Killinaskully (2003 - present) features a Traveller character named Pa Connors, played by Pat Shortt.
The 2004 movie Man About Dog features a group of Irish Traveller characters.
The documentary, Southpaw: The Francis Barrett Story, won the Audience Prize at the 1999 New York Irish Film Festival. It followed Galway boxer Francis (Francie) Barrett for three years and showed Francie overcoming discrimination as he progressed up the amateur boxing ranks to eventually carry the Irish flag and box for Ireland at the age of 19 during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. [17].
A documentary-style drama release in 2005, Pavee Lackeen (Traveller Girl), depicted the life of a young Traveller girl, and featured non-actors in the lead roles. Its director and co-writer, Perry Ogden, won an IFTA Award in the category of Breakthrough Talent.
FightGame and Firefight by Kate Wild are teenage/young adult novels with a charismatic gypsy boy hero called Freedom Smith. They are thriller/sci fi based but they also deal with the real problems Gypsies and Travellers face
The 2007 film Strength and Honour deals with a man joining a Traveller boxing tournament in order to win money for his son's operation.
Robert Jordan's series of fantasy novels The Wheel of Time feature a group of nomadic people based on the Irish Travellers - the Tuatha'an - who share the name 'Tinkers' and a reputation (portrayed in the books as largely undeserved) for petty theft.
In Blood Will Out, the fourth episode of Series Two of the TV series Midsomer Murders (1999), a local magistrate in an English village attempts to oust Travellers from his jurisdiction by means of a paramilitary vigilante attack, but is prevented from doing so by the police.