Editing Irish Travellers (section)

=== Diaspora ===
==== United Kingdom ====
In 2011, for the first time, the census category "Irish Traveller" was introduced as part of the broader Gypsy/Traveller section. While Irish Travellers and Romani Gypsy people are genetically distant from each other, with Travellers having Irish roots, and Roma Gypsies having alleged South Asian heritage, they are conflated in the UK Census, so the number of Travellers may be lower than what is reported in this category.

The self reported figure for collective Gypsy/Traveller populations were 63,193<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-and-quick-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-the-united-kingdom---part-1/rft-ks201uk.xls|format=XLS|title=2011 Census: Ethnic group1, local authorities in the United Kingdom|website=Ons.gov.uk|access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref> but estimates of Irish Travellers living in Great Britain range are about 15,000<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dohc.ie/publications/traveller_health_a_national_strategy_2002_2005.html |publisher=Irish Medical Journal |title=Traveller Health: A National Strategy 2002–2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203165600/http://www.dohc.ie/publications/traveller_health_a_national_strategy_2002_2005.html |archive-date= 3 December 2012 }}</ref> as part of a total estimation of over 300,000 Romani and other Traveller groups in the UK.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/25/truth-about-gypsy-traveller-life-women|title=The big fat truth about Gypsy life | work=The Guardian| first=Julie|last=Bindel|date=25 February 2011|location=London}}</ref> In the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 Census of England and Wales]], the Gypsy/Irish Traveller community numbered 67,757, or 0.1% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 December 2022 |title=Population of England and Wales |url=https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/national-and-regional-populations/population-of-england-and-wales/latest#by-ethnicity |access-date=11 April 2023 |website=www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref>

The [[London Boroughs]] of [[London Borough of Harrow|Harrow]] and [[London Borough of Brent|Brent]] contain significant Irish Traveller populations. In addition to those on various official sites, there are a number who are settled in local authority housing. These are mostly women who wish their children to have a chance at formal education. They and the children may or may not travel in the summer but remain in close contact with the wider Irish Traveller community.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lloyd|first=Gwynedd|date=2008|title=Education and Gypsies/Travellers: contradictions and significant silences|journal=International Journal of Inclusive Education|volume=12|issue=4|pages=331–345|doi=10.1080/13603110601183065|s2cid=144960289}}</ref>

There are also a number of Irish Traveller communities in the [[Home counties]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jun/29/gypsy-sites-england-local-authority | location=London | work=The Guardian| first=Ami | last=Sedghi | title=Every Gypsy and Traveller caravan site in England mapped and listed | date=29 June 2011}}</ref>

==== United States ====
{{Main|Irish Traveller Americans}}

An estimated 10,000 people in the United States are descendants of Travellers who left Ireland, mostly between 1845 and 1860 during the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Casey|first1=Dan|last2=Casey|first2=Conor|date=September–October 1994|title=Irish Travelers of Aiken County|journal=Irish America|volume=10|issue=5|pages=44–47|issn=0884-4240|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXoOAQAAMAAJ |id={{ProQuest|211244286}}}}</ref> However, there are no official population figures regarding Irish Travellers in the United States as the [[United States census|US census]] does not recognise them as an ethnic group.<ref name="Andereck1992">{{cite book|author=Mary E. Andereck|title=Ethnic Awareness and the School: An Ethnographic Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAKfAAAAMAAJ|date=21 February 1992|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-8039-3886-1|pages=22–}}</ref><ref name="Andereck1996">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Andereck|first=Mary E.|year=1996|title=Irish Travelers|editor1-last=O'Leary|editor1-first=Timothy J.|editor2-last=Levinson|editor2-first=David|display-editors=1|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of world cultures|location=New York|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|volume=1|pages=162–164|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000105.html|access-date=2011-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114051916/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000105.html|archive-date=2015-01-14|url-status=live|via=encyclopedia.com}}</ref> While some sources estimate their population in the U.S. to be 10,000, others suggest their population is 40,000. According to research published in 1992, Irish Travellers in the U.S. divide themselves up into groups that are based on historical residence: Ohio Travellers, Georgia Travellers, Texas Travellers, and Mississippi Travellers. The Georgia Travellers' camp is made up of about eight hundred families, the Mississippi Travellers, about three hundred families, and the Texas Travellers, under fifty families."<ref name="Andereck1992"/><ref name="Andereck1996"/>

The largest and most affluent population of about 2,500 lives in Murphy Village, outside of the town of [[North Augusta, South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paveepoint.ie/pav_faq_a.html |title=Who are the Irish Travellers in the United States? |date=June 2005 |publisher=Pavee Point Travellers Centre |access-date=20 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001000038/http://www.paveepoint.ie/pav_faq_a.html |archive-date= 1 October 2011 }}</ref> Other communities exist in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]; [[Hernando, Mississippi]]; and near [[White Settlement, Texas]]; where the families stay in their homes during the winter, and leave during the summer, while smaller enclaves can be found across Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.<ref>''License To Steal, Traveling Con Artists, Their Games, Their Rules – Your Money'' by Dennis Marlock & John Dowling, Paladin Press, 1994: [[Boulder, Colorado]]</ref>

Irish Travellers in the U.S. are said to speak English and Shelta, a form of Cant. The Cant spoken in the U.S. is similar to the Cant spoken in Ireland, but differs in some respects in that the language has transformed into a type of [[pidgin]] English over the generations. They typically do construction work, such as asphalting, spray-painting, and laying linoleum, or as [[Migrant worker|itinerant workers]].<ref name="Andereck1992"/><ref name="Andereck1996"/>