Despite sometimes being incorrectly referred to as "Gypsies", [7] Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Roma people, who are of Indo-Aryan origin. [11][12] Genetic analysis has shown Irish Travellers to be of Irish extraction, and that they likely diverged from the settled Irish population in the 1600s, probably during the time of ...

2025年1月22日 · Large loyal family networks are of major importance in Irish Traveller communities, providing support and protection against social exclusion and anti-Traveller discrimination. Irish Travellers are sometimes mistakenly called gypsies. They have no genetic relation with the Roma people.

2017年2月13日 · A STUDY of Irish Traveller genetics has revealed the group have no connection to Roma gypsies, and split from the settled Irish population earlier than previously thought. That’s according to new research undertaken by scientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the ...

2020年7月10日 · Like their counterparts in Ireland, Irish Travellers in the US speak their own dialects of Cant, Shelta, or Gammon, which can include elements of Irish, Gaelic, English, Greek, and Hebrew.

2025年2月22日 · Explore 53 Irish Gypsy surnames in the Traveller community, reflecting a rich culture, heritage, and the history of Ireland’s Travellers.

2017年3月16日 · After a long battle, Irish Travellers were finally officially recognised as an indigenous ethnic minority by Ireland’s government in early March 2017. Here, Culture Trip takes a look at the origins of the Irish Travelling community and how the historic ruling came about.

2012年11月28日 · The Travellers (until recently also called "tinkers" or "gypsies") often live in ad hoc encampments, in direct contrast to "settled" people in Ireland.

2024年6月28日 · Do Irish Travellers call themselves gypsies? Councils have a responsibility to identify land for Travellers to live and stop in their area, but the vast majority fail to do this. Irish Travellers usually refer to themselves as Travellers, Pavee or Mincéirs.

2010年4月29日 · Referred to as the gypsies of Ireland, Travellers have moved in caravans and lived in roadside encampments for hundreds of years. Now, they're settling in government-created "halts."

2024年7月15日 · The Irish Travellers, also referred to as Pavee or Mincéirs, constitute a group of approximately 300, 000 individuals of Gypsy and Traveller ethnicity residing in the United Kingdom. They are distinguished by their distinctive culture, proclivity for …