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To: Red Badger

OMG,I forgot about them. I remember my mother-in-law talking about the Tinkers’ wagons in Ireland.

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11 posted on 06/30/2015 1:11:26 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Why do they call the ‘Irish Travelers’ when they are not from Ireland?.........


12 posted on 06/30/2015 1:14:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Mears

No, the tinkers in Ireland were not really gypsies. They were descendants of people who had been displaced from their land by the English, but they were of Irish blood.


17 posted on 06/30/2015 1:58:59 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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