Base on this, (from the link in post 40) they are not our ethnic kin after all.
Base on this, (from the link in post 40) they are not our ethnic kin after all.
Most of what I found on the net suggests that the Travellers are indeed a subgroup of the Irish who split off, who knows how long ago, and formed a separate parallel culture and language. That fits the definition of separate ethnic group quite nicely.