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Whilst providing an insight into everyday life, the stories tell of both personal and cultural survival. They relate individuals' hopes and fears for the future, for themselves personally and for the Gypsy and Traveller way of life in general. Gypsy Wayside Burials by Robert Dawson – An insight into the burial customs of the British Romanies.
The Traveller Movement (TM) is a charity based in the United Kingdom that supports the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community and challenge discrimination against GRT people. [ 1 ] TM was founded in 1999 as a community organisation to combat the "gap in service provision and the marginalisation of the Irish Traveller community in Britain".
Blood of the Travellers, a 2011 RTÉ broadcast documentary of Francis Barrett interviewing Travellers and social historians and using DNA to find out the origin of the Travellers as a group. [1] [2] Gypsy Blood (2012), a hard hitting observational documentary screened by channel 4, about two bare-knuckle fighting Pavee families noted for their ...
The fact that Q188R is the sole mutant allele among the Travellers as compared to the non-Traveller group may be the result of a founder effect in the isolation of a small group of the Irish population from their peers as founders of the Traveller sub-population. This would favour the second, endogenous, hypothesis of Traveller origins."
The group has accused Channel 4's 2010–2015 series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and its 2020 Dispatches programme "The Truth About Traveller Crime" as promoting discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers. [2] [3]
[53] [43] [6] In 2018, 19% of Irish Travellers, and 16% of Gypsy and Roma students, achieved 4 GCSEs at grade C or above, compared to a national average of 64%. [54] Gypsy Roma and Traveller groups also have the highest exclusion rates and lowest attendance of any ethnic group. [2]
Louise, played by Sachiko Nicholson, gets a birthday cake surrounded by her friends on the road, in a bittersweet moment in the College Light Opera Company production of "Gypsy," through July 13.
Promotional image from TLC. My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding is an American reality television series that debuted on TLC in April 2012. It claims to revolve around the marriage customs of Romani-Americans ("Gypsies") – allegedly members of Romanichal clans, although some are actually of Irish Traveller descent.