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Irish traveller link
« on: Friday 15 September 06 14:22 BST (UK) »
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Re: Irish traveller link
« Reply #1 on: Friday 01 June 07 15:46 BST (UK) »
The Travelling People in Northern Ireland are mentioned on a site about the Minority Ethnic Communities in Northern Ireland. The article about the Travellers mentions their language, called Gammon, Cant or Shelta, which is little used today but familiar to most members of the travelling community.

Dr.Ciara Breathnach, BA, MA PhD (NUI), has written a book and a couple of articles about Irish Travellers and emigrants ... 

Ciara Breathnach and Aoife Bhreatnach (eds.), Portraying Irish Traveller: histories and representations, (Forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006)

‘Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand, 1870-1875’, in L. Geary and A McCarthy (eds), Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: history, politics and culture ( Irish Academic Press, 2008)

‘Historical sources pertaining to Travellers, 1824-1925’
in C. Breathnach and A. Bhreatnach (eds), Portraying Irish Travellers, histories
and representations, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), pp. 17-31.

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