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Irish nomads

  • 27-05-2012 5:30pm
    #1
    cue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭


    I know we have (new age and traditional) travellers and circus folk in Ireland but are there any other groups that would be considered nomads here?


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  • #2
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Depends on how you define a nomad.
    A member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.
    or
    A person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer.
    (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/nomad)

    Offhand, I can't think of any other nomadic groups in Ireland.


  • #3
    cue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭cue


    Either really.
    I was in an old parochial house which is used as a community centre and a guy walked in with a knapsack looking for the local priest. He was well-educated but obviously living rough and he appeared to be just moving through the countryside. One of the old guys told me that he was a "knight of the road" and he suggested he was on some sort of modern pilgrimage. Just curious about people like that.


  • #4
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    I suppose there has always been individuals who have chosen, or were forced into, that way of life. I doubt that it would be correct to call them a group of nomads, because they tend to live a solitary existence, and don't move en masse.


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