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Irish Travellers

No Horse Sense in Galway

The furore being kicked up over urban horses by supporters of Mike Cubbard a city council member rumbles on. Something of a …

Fair Girls at the Horse Fair

They walk the streets, young, wild at heart Among horses the men admire Free of sprit and fast with word To the …

Let Death Have For You No Fear

Master Greene was a Ballinalee schoolteacher who learned the Irish Traveller cant and ended up teaching it to the grandchildren of the …

The Walking People

In times past they were craftsmen skilled But today they have no skill That has a value in the modern world As …

Lianhan Shee

Man, turn your face from the Lianhan Shee Fall not for her, though fair be her charms It will bring you death, …