Irish Travellers
Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning "the walking people"), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí) are a nomadic indigenous ethnic group whose members maintain a set of traditions, and are one of several groups identified as "Travellers". They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English, Irish and Romani origin. Religiously, the majority of Irish Travellers are Catholic, the predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland. Although they are often referred to as "Gypsies", Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Romani. Genetic analysis has shown Travellers to be of Irish …
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National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health · 31 July 2018 English
Local action on health inequalities Local action on health inequalities Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health Local action on health inequalities: Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health About …
health among people identifying as Gypsy and Irish Travellers than other groups, particularly once age-profiles … Information on mental ill health among Gypsies and Irish Travellers is limited, but provides a consistent picture … Chinese and Indian ethnic groups. Gypsy and Irish Travellers have the lowest level of qualifications at … practices is particularly limited for Gypsies, Irish Travellers and Roma populations. This is a major gap … physical activity levels among Gypsies and Irish Travellers is very limited, but small-scale local studies …
Community Foundation Canada · 26 September 2016 English
VITAL ISSUES This is a country that boasts 79% of arts council investment goes to most deprived areas of NI spectacular buildings and • The Arts can be seen as …
government built 542 social homes last Chinese and Irish travellers wait to newcomer or ethnic communities. year …
BPH: Burnstown Publishing House · 15 November 2014 English
From forest trails to paved highways--Gypsies, Preachers & Big White Bears traces the history of the roads of Lanark County from the first surveyor's stake to the advent of cars. …
of the 1820s, large groups of Scottish and Irish travellers arrived in Prescott. From there, arrangements …
CSPG: Canadian Study of Parliament Group · 13 December 2010 English
Different States, Different Steps: Comparing Pathways to Parliaments Among and Within Liberal Democracies Different States, Different Groups, Different Routes: Comparing Pathways to Parliament for Immigrants and Visible Minorities Karen Bird …
minorities (non-territorial): Tatar, Roma, Irish Travellers, urban Aboriginals, Jewish, African Americans …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 2007 English
The soothing role of the Church was reinforced by the failure of the Patriotes rebellion in the Montreal region in 1837, and very soon French Catholicism began to spread to …
stigma attached to the European Gypsies or the Irish Travellers living in shanty-towns (Fraser 1992; Douaud …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 2003 English
Helleiner's study documents anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life as well as the production and reproduction of contemporary Traveller collective identity and culture.
IRISH TRAVELLERS: RACISM AND THE POLITICS OF CULTUR] This page intentionally left blank Irish Travellers … Publication Data Helleiner, Jane Leslie, 1961- Irish Travellers : racism and the politics of culture (Anthropological … references and index. ISBN 0-8020-4843-9 1. Irish Travellers (Nomadic people). 2. Ireland - Ethnic relations … To all of them I offer my loving thanks. IRISH TRAVELLERS This page intentionally left blank Introduction … (Irish Independent, 27 September 1986: 5) 4 Irish Travellers I knew from my reading of the existing literature …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 January 1975 English
With the publication of the Report of the Commission on Itinerancy in 1963 and the extensive media coverage given its findings a different picture emerged — that of travellers as …
anthropologist who studied the Gammon of Irish travellers living in the United States, has argued that … the late 1800s. And today several thousand Irish travellers live in the southern United States. It seems … either knew it, or had heard it from other Irish travellers. 43 The move to the City "Ah, there's more …
