Editing Irish Travellers (section)

===Social identity===
[[File:Traveller Ethnicity pin.jpg|thumb|The Traveller Ethnicity pin was created to celebrate the Irish State's formal acknowledgment on 1 March 2017 of Travellers as a distinct ethnic group in Irish society.]]
Irish Travellers are recognised in [[United Kingdom law|British]] and [[Law in the Republic of Ireland|Irish law]] as an [[ethnic group]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cre.gov.uk/gdpract/g_and_t_facts.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203055126/http://cre.gov.uk/gdpract/g_and_t_facts.html|title=Gypsies and Irish Travellers: The facts|archive-date=3 February 2007|work=cre.gov.uk}}</ref><ref name=Itmtrav1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.itmtrav.com/Legal-ResourcePack1.html |title=''Irish Travellers Movement:'' Traveller Legal Resource Pack 1 - The Irish Legal System |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109001648/http://www.itmtrav.com/Legal-ResourcePack1.html |archive-date=9 January 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Itmtrav2>{{Cite web |url=http://www.itmtrav.com/Legal-ResourcePack2.html |title=''Irish Travellers Movement:'' Traveller Legal Resource Pack 2 – Traveller Culture |access-date=29 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108230200/http://www.itmtrav.com/Legal-ResourcePack2.html |archive-date=8 January 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> An ethnic group is defined as one whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry. Ethnic identity is also marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and by common cultural, linguistic, religious, behavioural or biological traits.<ref name=Itmtrav2/> 

Contemporary Traveller culture reflects an evolution of traditional values and practices in interaction with legislative changes and wider societal changes. Nomadism, market trading, and horse ownership are traditional features of Traveller culture and heritage.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Irish Travellers |url=https://itmtrav.ie/what-is-itm/irish-travellers/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=Irish Traveller Movement |language=en-GB}}</ref>