Guarding What Was Forgotten – Sharing What Can Heal
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ARCHIVE
Most archives tell the story of power.
Ours tells the story of what survived it.
The TraVision Foundation Research Library isn’t just academic. It’s a protected knowledge base built from decades of lived experience, oral tradition, suppressed state documents, and cross-disciplinary science.
It’s where:
- Science meets Indigenous memory
- Law meets lived reality
- Archaeology meets oral history
- Truth finally begins to rise
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
Unlike most libraries, this archive didn’t begin in an institution.
It began in:
Silence
Exclusion
Marginalisation
Resistance
Over the years, we’ve protected and preserved material that others ignored:
✅ Traveller family archives passed down for generations
✅ Buried reports and documents exposing harmful policy
✅ Overlooked academic studies confirming cultural continuity
✅ Microbiome science linking colonisation and identity
✅ Oral history validated with archaeology, linguistics, and law
This is one of the most unique research bodies in Ireland a living archive connecting science, spirit, survival, and story.
WHAT THE LIBRARY COVERS
We organise our research by theme, not by discipline because real life isn’t divided into academic departments.
This knowledge is not just academic.
It’s emotional. It’s political. It’s cultural.
It’s a roadmap out of the colonial mind.
🧠 Psychological Colonisation
👨👩👧 Traveller Kinship & Social Structure
🏰 Pre-Colonial Ireland & Gaelic Lifeways
⚖️ Colonial Law & Criminalisation of Culture
🧫 Microbiome Science & Cultural Continuity
🕵️ The Commission on Itinerancy (1963) and Beyond
🧬 Genetics & Indigenous Survival
🗣️ Language Suppression, Cant/Gammon, and Linguistic Evidence
🏺 Ritual, Burial & Mobility in Archaeology
A PROTECTED RESOURCE
This material is not published openly, by design.
Much of this knowledge has been twisted or erased by state narratives or institutional gatekeepers.
To protect its integrity, we collaborate only through trusted partnerships with:
- Universities & researchers
- Cultural & mental health institutions
- Ethical educators
- Artists, filmmakers, & documentary teams
- Indigenous scholars & networks
We work on trust, clarity of purpose, and protective care.
This is not public content.
This is protected cultural knowledge.
HOW YOU CAN WORK WITH US
Are you:
- A researcher exploring colonisation across disciplines?
- An educator building new curricula?
- A journalist, artist, or filmmaker uncovering truth through culture and science?
- A health or trauma organisation seeking deep-rooted context?
- We welcome ethical, collaborative access to our research base.
You won’t find this level of insight in university or state archives because the people who lived it were never allowed to write it.
Until now.
Join Our Knowledge Partnerships
We’re currently seeking partnerships with:
🎓 Affiliated university departments
💡 Ethical funders & knowledge stewards
🧠 Cultural & curriculum creators
🏥 Medical and trauma researchers
🎥 Documentary makers & publishers
🪶 Indigenous knowledge holders