Irish Travellers

[Drew Danielson]

Didn't the recent movie "Sntach" deal in part with Irish Traveller
culture in England?




Susan Gilbert wrote:
>
> Yes, from what I understand , the Travellers from Murphy Village, SC do have a particular language. There was a Dateline NBC special about them a few years ago. Chilling and disturbing.
> There are websites devoted to Traveller information. One in particular http://www.pitt.edu/~alkst3/USA.html seems to have been written by a Pitt colleague.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Duane Campbell
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:46 AM
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> Subject: Irish Travellers
>
> The Toogood matter (video child beating) has me wondering. Do the Irish
> Travelers (a widespread family similar, but not ethnically related to the
> Rom) have their own dialect? This woman is from a clan based in Texas;
> there is also a clan that works from Murphreesboro SC.
>
> Her pronunciations do not say Texas to my ear. I hear pieces of several
> things, but Northern rural, hill country, comes through. The grammar is
> also interesting, with several variants that are new to me, e.g. not the
> familiar "he done" but rather "he's did"? That's new to me except as an
> occasional accident.
>
> Has this group been studied?