Irish Travellers

[Drew Danielson]

Bob Haas wrote:
>
> I do believe that's correct, but Pitt's dialect was just a funny hodge-podge
> that he threw together (I saw a making-of on the DVD).
>
> BTW, for another look at Irish Travellers in the U.S., check out TRAVELLER
> (1997) with Bill Paxton and Julianna Margulies.  I have no idea whether or
> not it's culturally accurate in any way, but it is pretty entertaining.
>


Other info sources on Irish Travellers (in the US as well as in Britain
and in Ireland) (often combined with info on Gypsies, but the
distinction is always elaborated upon) -
http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/travell.htm
http://www.travellersrest.org/
http://foclark.tripod.com/gypsy/
http://www.exchangehouse.ie/links.htm

One quick note - Ethnologue.com's Language Family Index lists Traveller
Norwegian, Traveller Danish, and Tavringer Romani (this under I-E >
Germanic > North > East Scandinavian > Swedish).  More info on
Scandanavian Travellers at:

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-69051/designations.html
                               /theories.html - which does not argue
                               strongly that Travellers are entirely
                               distinct from Gypsies - this site
provides
                               evidence that argues competing theories
of
                               Traveller origins (at least among Scanda-
                               navian Travellers)