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In 1974 she returned to the UK where she joined
Roberts' Circus as Horse Master but succumbed to a more settled lifestyle when she made her home in Okehampton, Devon, with her daughter Sheba, where she continued to write. Juanita is considered 'the first in Ireland to write haiku as we know them',
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Juanita Casey was born in 1925 in
England and adopted at birth into a wealthy Southampton-based brewing family by Gerald Haw Taunton Barlow (1878-1952) and his wife Mary (née Bischoff) and named Joy Barlow. Her true heritage has always remained in doubt. Casey was told her mother was an Irish
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and others. Following their marriage in
Penzance in 1953, the family travelled to the New Forest in a Gypsy wagon. They set up camp not far from Shave Green, one of the last compounds in the New Forest. A local farmer's kindness allowed them to move off the Forest into a field and the couple
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She remained in close contact with her extended family, especially an uncle, Andrew Walter Barlow, who had a farm in
Herefordshire. Casey suspected he was her real father. A fluent Romani speaker, Barlow introduced her to the world of the circus (which overwintered on his farm),
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Traveller, Annie
Mahoney, but the identity of her biological father was shrouded in mystery, though he was rumoured to have been an English Romany. In the 1980s, Casey found a birth certificate that stated that she was born Lorna at Elm Drive,
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Juanita, aged 38, met Irish journalist Fergus Casey (27) when the
Berlins employed him as a groom in Emery Down. Leaving Berlin and the New Forest they married in Cornwall in 1963 following her divorce - their witnesses were the Scottish poet
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At the same time she was supporting Berlin in his efforts to continue his work as a writer and artist, finding little time for her own creativity. Among the many friends and acquaintances who visited them in the New Forest were
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and attended by numerous Gypsy families) while in the same year
Juanita exhibited her monotypes at the Berkeley Gallery in London - her 'straining, fiery horses...jumping out of their frames' wrote her friend the author
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and as well as poetry she produced short stories and completed her extensive autobiography
Azerbaijan! She always maintained her profound interest in horses and sailing ships and her connections with the Romany people.
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A Grab-bag of
Juanita Casey, Journal of Irish Literature, X, 2 (May 1981); Also published as Juanita Casey A Sampling. No. 3 The Proscenium Chapbooks. Proscenium Press, Newark, DE (1981)
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Based in
Ireland with Fergus and Sheba in the 1960s, she began writing seriously. Fergus was found drowned in 1971, leaving Juanita to raise her daughter, and she moved to
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to mother Bertha Louise Newman, with no recorded father. It is suspected the story Casey was told may hold some truth as Newman is a common British Romani surname.
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When Juanita came into an inheritance it allowed her to buy Home Farm in Emery Down in the New Forest, where the couple set up a zoo. Here she kept and bred
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Our Shared Japan. Edited by Irene De Angelis & Joseph Woods. Afterword by Seamus Heaney. A collection of poems by Irish writers. (Dedalus Press 2007)
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continued to paint and exhibit their work; in 1956 they held an exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, in Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire (opened by
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in 'Britannia & Eve'magazine. Her play 'Stallion Eternity' was transmitted by the BBC on 15 November of the same year.
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made about the Gypsy festival of Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer in the Camargue in which she acted as interpreter.
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in County Kerry. By now her poetry and short stories were being published, significantly by Liam Miller's
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Casey returned to prominence in the summer of 2022 when Tramp Press reissued her 1971 cult classic,
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and endeavoured to breed a zorse (a striped horse) keeping two zebras among other unusual animals.
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Interview with Mary M. Burke on Juanita Casey. "Arena." RTÉ (Irish national radio). 27 July 2022.
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in Wales and went for walks with Theodore, reminiscing on his friendship with Thomas Hardy.
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and his wife Nessie who lived in Mevagissey. Their daughter Sheba was born the same year.
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and Augustus John as well as their neighbour John Boorman. Juanita appears in the 1961
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Burke, Mary M. 'Juanita Casey: A forgotten Traveller-Romany writer rediscovered."
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Berlin became disillusioned with the modernist movement and the influence of
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and live on an ex-fishing boat, resulted in the purchase of a top rigged
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from which she was expelled. When the family moved to Branksome Park,
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hailed the novel as 'strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic.'
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Casey's education included three boarding schools, among them
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by Juanita Casey: Strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic."
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30 Gnu Pence (a reading at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1973)
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with whom she had a long correspondence, Denys Val Baker,
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Henderson, Gordon. 'An Interview with Juanita Casey',
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that she was introduced to the painter and sculptor
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