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In 2011, for the first time, the census category "Irish Traveller" was introduced as part of the broader Gypsy/Traveller section. While Irish Travellers and Romani Gypsy people are genetically distant from each other, with Travellers having Irish roots, and Roma Gypsies having alleged South Asian heritage, they are conflated in the UK Census ...
Gypsies and Irish Travellers are recognised as ethnic groups and legally protected against discrimination in the Equality Act 2010. [3] [43] Although the term Roma is not explicitly named in the act, Roma are still protected against discrimination on the basis of ethnicity and Roma migrants are also protected on the basis of nationality. [3]
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.In the 2011 census, the White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller population was 63,193 or about 0.1 percent of the total population of the country.
Irish Traveller Americans consist of people originating from immigrants who came to the U.S. before the 20th century, and some who came later during the 1900s and 2000s. Georgia, New York, and Tennessee also have communities of sizable proportions. Irish Travellers are often involved in painting, construction, and pavement/asphalt-related work.
Mary Teresa Collins (born 1960s), Traveller human rights activist, a public survivor of the Irish state and church institutions and mother to the author Laura Angela Collins [2] Eileen Flynn (born 1990), Senator and first female Irish Traveller to serve in the Oireachtas [3] Nan Joyce (1940–2018), pioneering Irish Travellers' rights activist [4]
These groups usually follow a set pattern of yearly nomadism. Membership of these groups has, over the years, been drawn from other communities. For example, showpeople in Great Britain and Ireland often had a mix of English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and/or Traveller (typically Romanichal Traveller and Irish Traveller) heritage. [citation needed]
Pikey (/ ˈ p aɪ k iː /; also spelled pikie, pykie) [1] [2] is an ethnic slur referring to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people.It is used mainly in the United Kingdom and in Ireland to refer to people who belong to groups which had a traditional travelling lifestyle.
King Of The Gypsies (1995) — a documentary film about Bartley Gorman, undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Ireland and Great Britain. My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (2010–2015) and spinoff series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings — a Channel 4 television documentary series about Irish Traveller weddings.