The Doherty’s are Irish Traveller royalty.  While Hughie Doherty, becomes embroiled in a fight to defend his family’s name, his son Francie, is caught between two worlds, learning to read at primary school while learning to fight with his fists at home. 

Fred Butcher is Romany but torn between the gypsy fighting tradition and his love as a father.  His son, Freddy Cole, is a sensitive child, terrified his father will one day not return from a fight.  
 
Gypsy Blood originally aired on Channel 4 earlier this year to huge critical acclaim and is a haunting study of masculinity and violence, laying bare the uneasy relationship gypsy men have with their bare-knuckle traditions.