In vacant lots and campgrounds along Murfreesboro Road, the green tents would appear, suddenly but predictably, the first weekend of May every year for decades. The road would swarm with hundreds of people greeting one another, hugging like family, dancing and playing the old music. Show
Their faces told a story of life on the road. Their hands told a story of hard work. There was a familiarity in their countenances, as if all were leaflets clinging to different branches of a very expansive ancient tree. When they first came, they came in wagons or on horseback, and when the 20th century aged, they came in trucks. The horses were still there, in trailers behind. Some came in dearer vehicles, and when they decamped, some left in “shiny new convertibles,” according to the newspaper. Nashville’s papers gave an annual report on the visit — announcing the arrival and the departure and whether the weekend was a success. But in 1951, it wasn’t: “Cupid Fails To Make Score As Irish Nomads Leave Town,” The Tennessean reported. “Irish Nomads” was the usual term for the clan for the first half of the century, and they didn’t seem to mind that, proud as they were of their link to the Emerald Isle. The group, however, would bristle at the name “Gypsy.” That term is long out of favor these days, but the Gormans, Costellos, Sherlocks, McNallys and Carrolls weren’t objecting to the term so much as being associated with a wholly different group of people. Romani — the ethnic group most frequently associated with the word “Gypsy” — have a much-debated origin, though anthropologists more or less agree they came out of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The “Irish Nomads” — these days, the American branch prefers the term “Irish Travellers,” with two L’s, in the Old World fashion — are, as genetic testing has long since proven, exactly what they claim to be: Irish through and through. Even these days, even separated by an ocean from Ireland, there’s been little influx of non-Irish genes. And that brings us back to 1951. “The clan elders were at a loss to explain it,” the Tennessean story reads. “Every previous reunion here has climaxed in at least one, and usually several, marriages.” The old-timers blamed the draft. One suggested that perhaps the young women were becoming more independent and less tied to the old ways of meeting their love match in Nashville. 
Regularisation scheme for people seeking asylum in Ireland
This scheme allows some people seeking asylum in the International Protection process to apply for legal residence in Ireland. What do Travellers do for work?Some of the better known areas of work that Gypsies and Travellers are involved in include seasonal agricultural work, motor trading and tree-felling. Some are employed as academics, teachers and public servants and in this way they add to the local economy.
How do Gypsies make a living?Gypsies don't have a permanent home because their life is more on traveling, because of this, it is impossible for them to have a job at the office and make a lot of money. Most gypsies settle making money by looking for temporary jobs like gardeners, nail artists, and painters.
Do Irish Travellers have homes?Planning law defines Gypsies and Travellers as people with a travelling way of life. Whilst this is historically true, 90% of Gypsies and Irish Travellers now live in houses; this is partly due to the lack of site provision across the country.
Where do Irish Travellers live?Irish Travellers live in Ireland and throughout Great Britain, with smaller communities in Canada and the United States. They have lived as a distinct ethnic group with their own culture, language, and values, distinguished from settled Irish communities, for centuries.
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