Wednesday, 1 June 2011

The Travellers have tales to tell

Francie Barrett is just the right hook for Traveller documentary

review of radio programme, at the Irish Times. It's in two parts. The point is to use DNA testing to identify the origins of the Irish Travellers, are they:
  • Romany
  • Early inhabitants, Ireland's answer to the Aborigines, 'Red Indians' or Ainu.
  • Irish who 'lost their grip on the land during the Famine', as the Bull McCabe says in The Field.
  • .....or something else entirely?

Anyway, can't find it on the RTE site, so I've not heard it yet...oh, no, it's just the RTE search box won't find it if I put in his name; but Google will, if I use the same search (his name) and restrict the site to RTE.ie .....get your search working, RTE!



Blood Of The Travellers



Still not letting me watch it, though.

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