Editing Irish Travellers (section)

==== 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"/>