![]() ![]() There are numerous theories and oral histories surrounding the origins of Irish Travellers as a distinct group. Travellers refer to themselves as Mincéirs or Mincéirí or Pavees, or in Irish as an Lucht Siúil ("the walking people"). 11.5 Travellers' sites in the United Kingdom.The United Kingdom alone is believed to be home to up to 300,000 Traveller people. There are different estimates about the size of the total population of people with Traveller ancestry, because many people of Traveller descent do not declare themselves Travellers. They represent 0.7% of the total population of the Republic of Ireland. ![]() ![]() As of 2016, there are 32,302 Travellers within Ireland. Irish Travellers mostly live in the United Kingdom, as well as in large communities in Ireland, the United States and Canada. Traveller rights groups long advocated for ethnic status from the Irish government, succeeding in 2017. The centuries of separation have led to Travellers becoming genetically distinct from the settled Irish. Genetic analysis has shown Travellers to be of Irish extraction, and that they likely diverged from the settled Irish population in the 1600s, likely during the time of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. They are often incorrectly referred to as " Gypsies", but Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Romani, who are of Indo-Aryan origin. They are one of several groups identified as " Travellers", a closely related group being the Scottish Travellers. The majority of Irish Travellers are Roman Catholic, the predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland. They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and Irish origin. Irish Travellers ( Irish: na lucht siúil, meaning "the walking people"), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs ( Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. ![]()
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