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They live mostly in Ireland as well as having large numbers in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Travellers may often be referred to by the terms tinkers. Another name for a traveller or a tinker is adi and gelu. Other names, specifically derogatory, such as pikey.
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With an overall population of just 0. Travellers constituting 7. Tuam, Galway. There were found to be 9,3.
Travellers in the 0. Children of age range 0. From the 2. 00. 2 census . The labour force participation rate for male Travellers (7. Travellers (3. 8%) was considerably below that for females in general (4. Unemployment among male Travellers measured 7.
The national measure of unemployment for males on a comparable basis was 9. Corresponding rates for females were 6. Travellers and 8 per cent for the female population overall. The self reported figure for collective Gypsy/Traveller and/or Irish Traveller populations were 6.
In addition to those on various official sites there are a number who are settled in Local Authority Housing. These are mostly women who wish their children to have a chance at a good education. They and the children may or may not travel in the summer but remain in close contact with the wider Traveller community.
According to research published in 1. Irish travellers in the US divide themselves up into groups that are based on historical residence: Ohio Travellers, Georgia Travellers, Texas Travellers, and Mississippi Travellers. The Cant spoken in the US is similar to the Cant spoken in Ireland, but differes in some respects in that the language has transformed into a type of pidgin English over the generations. They typically work in asphalting, spray painting, laying linoleum, or as itinerant workers to earn their living.
Such discussions have been difficult as Irish Travellers left no written records of their own. The study provided evidence that Irish Travellers are a distinct Irish ethnic minority, who separated from the settled Irish community at least 1. Icelanders are from Norwegians. Their nomadism was based on cattle- herds or creaghts. It recommended assimilation of travellers by settling them in fixed dwellings, viewing the Netherlands' approach to its travelling minority as a model.
At the time, about 6. Irish travellers lived in barrel- roofed horse- drawn wagons, with almost 4.
The Body's membership included travellers. Shelta has been dated back to the 1. This is evidenced in a 2. Ireland, which states that over half of Travellers do not live past the age of 3. Female Travellers have especially high mortality compared to settled women. The study, including a detailed census of Traveller population and an examination of their health status, was expected to take up to three years to complete.
The birth rate for the Traveller community for the year 2. Europe. On average there are ten times more driving fatalities within the Traveller community.
At 2. 2%, this represents the most common cause of death among Traveller males. Some 1. 0% of Traveller children die before their second birthday, compared to just 1% of the general population. In Ireland, 2. 6% of all deaths in the total population were for people aged under 2. Travellers. According to Judith Okely, . Okely wrote in 1.
This would favour the second, endogenous, hypothesis of Traveller origins. They are too small a minority, i. The main fairs associated with them are held annually at Ballinasloe (County Galway), Puck Fair (County Kerry), Ballabuidhe Horse Fair (County Cork), the twice yearly Smithfield Horse Fair (Dublin inner city) and Appleby (England). Such percentages for more valuable non- ferrous metals may be significantly greater.
Many families choose not to reveal the specifics of their finances, but when explained it is very difficult to detect any sort of pattern or regular trend of monthly or weekly income. To detect their financial status many look to the state of the possessions: their trailer, motor vehicle, domestic utensils, and any other valuables.
Ethnic identity is also marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and by common cultural, linguistic, religious, behavioural or biological traits. The European Parliament Committee of Enquiry on Racism and Xenophobia found them to be among the most discriminated- against ethnic groups in Ireland. The court hearing in 2. Under the government's . The Travellers claim that there is an under- provision of authorised sites . In Northern Ireland, opposition to Travellers' sites has been led by the Democratic Unionist Party. Shows like The Riches, (2.
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