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
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.............)
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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