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.)
To: Bigg Red
Peter Pan's "tinkerbell" got her name from the Irish Tinkers. I think "tinker" is from "tin". They would go around offering to bang your pots and pans back into shape.
ps Tinkerbell isn't real.
22 posted on
06/30/2015 2:42:45 PM PDT by
HandyDandy
(Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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