Irish travellers

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Photographer Jamie Johnson was given unprecedented access to the notoriously private Irish traveller commuity at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival in October.

Belgian photographer Sebastiaan Franco took this collection of fascinating photographs while spending two years living with the Keenan and Collins traveller families on just outside Dublin.

The annual Ballinasloe Horse Fair, one of the most important social and economic events in the Irish travelling community got underway in County Galway, Ireland today.

New research shows that Irish Travellers could be as genetically far removed from settled Irish as the Spanish.

In the 1960s Alen MacWeeney photographed indigenous Irish nomads called the Travellers. Fifty years later his raw and gritty photos are a historical look at a culture that is slowly fading into the past.

Irish people are known to be friendly and laid back but we'd advise you don't annoy them. Here are the top 10 small things that really annoy Irish people. #Irishpeople #annoying #Irish

Irish ancestry stretches to the far reaches of the globe. So it comes as no surprise that no matter where you go, you tend to run into classic Irish names. Here are the top 100 Irish surnames you’re bound to experience at least once in your life! #Irishsurnames #Irishnames #Irishnamemeanings

Young Irish Traveller woman in Southern Ireland 1970s