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Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs [3] (Shelta: Mincéirí), [4] are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous [5] ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. [6] [7] [8] They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and ...
Hughie Fury (born 1994), professional boxer from Greater Manchester who won the British heavyweight title [16] Tyson Fury (born 1988), professional boxer based in Morecambe, England and WBC heavyweight champion [15] Michael Gomez (born 1977), professional boxer based in Manchester, England, was born to an Irish Traveller family in County ...
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (abbreviated to GRT) is an umbrella term used in the United Kingdom to represent several diverse ethnic groups which have a shared history of nomadism. In the phrase GRT, The Gypsy grouping encompasses Romani subgroups that have resided in Britain since the 16th century, the Romanichal (English Gypsies) and Kale (Welsh ...
The Highland Travellers' speech includes a dialect called Beurla Reagaird or Beurla-reagaird. It is related to the Irish Traveller Shelta as a creole of the Gaelic language group. It has been used as a cultural identifier, just as Romani groups used the Romani language. Like the Highland Travellers themselves, the language is not related to ...
There are a number of traditionally itinerant or travelling groups in Europe who are known as Travellers or Gypsies (the latter being increasingly taken as derogatory). The origins of the indigenous itinerant groups are not always clear. The largest of these groups are the Romani people (also Roma or Rom), who have Indian roots and heritage ...
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 per cent of the total population of the country. The ethnicity category may encompass populace from the distinct ethnic groups of Romanichal Travellers ...
The Irish Traveller Movement (ITM) was founded in 1990 and incorporated in 1998, [1] with Catherine Joyce as the founding chairperson. [2][3] The organisation represents 40 local and national Traveller groups from the island of Ireland. [4]
Shelta (/ ˈʃɛltə /; [2] Irish: Seiltis) [3] is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (Mincéirí), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. [4] It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as de Gammon or Tarri, and to the linguistic community as Shelta. [5] Other terms for it include the Seldru, and Shelta Thari ...