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Is she saying (4:48) “he died hard. He died hard as well. He died hard as well”? What does that mean?

I am a traveller From holland,the samé overhere 60 years ago , but what outsiders never understand Is the fact that the traditional work on the land arround the Farmers stocked in these days And since then they ended up Surround the citys in big numbers,Also in holland Is this way off living gone along time ago

They are like the U.S. Amish. Fight like hell to live in the past.

Its" cruelity man" employed by the government to find any excuse to take the children away from their parents and put into horrible working schools/ convents and reform schools , they were horribly abused.

Brilliant documentary

Great story...

There's a romantic lure to the idea of the travelers but its lost to the ages. I am an Indian feathers not dots and my culture is dieing for a long time sad but its just the way

Does anyone know the music used in this? Particularly the music used at 34:00 and 39:30?

That is a lovely documentary. It is nice to see that there are still some of the people from those families that remember the older relatives. *The "travelling way" has been made redundant by the modern era. To acquire a good-paying job one requires an education.* *Wages are depressed (immigration) and an uneducated man with no marketable skills can not support a family in 2023* In Africa, where population demands have led to more people taking up farming; there is resentment of the herding cultures that drive their cattle though the newly plowed and sown land as part of centuries-old traditions of migrations. Often these disputes become violent. The same is true of the Bedouin of Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. The governments don't want them ranging across the desert and disrupting the gas/oil pipelines.

I'm from Holylands and i grew up alongside some of these people. My father was best friends with a man named paddy wall Aka(Wack) and his people Man connor was her neighbor so to speak. I remember the site before the 1st & 2nd lots of houses the built on the old site that was just like wasteland. The family's still reside there to this day. And I'm so thankfully for those days and nights sitting around the fire with wonderful friend/people. I learned a lot from them and of their ways of living and doing of things for the songs the warm meals and endless cups of tea and lemonade for the kids. I loved watching this so much memories of grown up alongside these amazing peoples it actually made me quite emotional to see some faces of the past that was my childhood. Rip Nan Connor's, sack & Bridie Wall paddy Wall, woodsis paddy connors.

Wish you all especially you're daughter all the very best it's great what you've done in raising awareness 👏

This people reminds me of the Appalachian peoples. My relatives go way back there and the Rom are a great deal like them in many ways. Good people but steeped in many superstitions and traditions that can hinder their progress. It is a shame that they cannot keep the good but get rid of the bad. Many of my relatives have come a long way and I can honestly say most of it was because they sacrificed to make sure their children got a good education. Naturally many children left, but they have all keep their memories and many of their traditions and quite a few have returned to their roots and built homes back in the same hollers they grew up in. They too are a proud people. I love learning about all this.

Sublimely evocative photographs!

Wonderful doccie!

I had the joy of two travellers try a break in of my home here in Melbourne.

Crazy to see the same pattern that happened with natives here in american. My family's mixed with native and once they started living on nations aka reservations, the suicide rates trippled, and alcohol and drugs became one of the top causes of death. Id like to know what the correlation is between people settling for the first time and these statistics. Maybe theres something we can figure out and help prevent it in the future with newly settling groups. They say as natives for us its genetic, but now i wonder, is it genetic for the settlers as well or is the truth something different 🤔

Wow what a beautiful documentary . It was so interesting on so many levels esp how much it effected the traveller community when they were forced into to housing . The sad part for some of the families is how much drug dealing and drug taking has done so much damage to its younger generation esp through suicide , which it does to every culture, my own family included .

Wow. What a beautiful adventure. Those kinds of journeys don’t happen anymore and that’s sad the Gypsy culture has slowly been forced into extinction. George and Sharon got to experience what true Traveller life was like in a barrel top wagon out on the road meeting families, cooking over the fire, hearing the old stories and taking all those wonderful pictures. To see the faces of some of their relatives who had never seen the person in the picture or had never seen that particular picture was so amazing… a legacy of a beautiful time in their lives. To hear the story about why the one man came off the road to pursue education was so heartwarming! Incredible how you can change a life and not know it. That goes to show you. You should always have your best foot forward because you never know who is watching you and being inspired by you. ❤

Nothing but trouble with them

23:45 what is this "crootie man/woman" she mentions? sounds like the u.s. boogeyman great doc!

And THAT is the danger in today’s society! Identity and cultures being cancelled and lost to the “woke movement” already we have lost too much!

This is a very important work by anthropologist George and Sharon Gmelch, beautifully told stories and bittersweet. I am glad I discovered this video.

No space is allowed in this world for people who want to travel, there is nobody wants to do seasonal work for a pitance pay. The harvest rots in the field while food is too expensive to buy and a million anthropologists write papers explaining why.

I know it's not quite the same, but the cost of housing and growth of remote work and gig work is creating a class of people in the US who are basically nomads or American travellers. Van life, RV living, and camper trailer travel are popular and becoming more permanent or long-term lifestyles. It does lack the specific ethnic dominance (other than being American) and tight knit culture, but it does exist. Things are definitely changing. People still want a house of their own, yet they're bored of the standard 9-5 lifestyle. We'll see what happens. It's definitely an American subculture within the larger culture.

This was absolutely beautiful, very emotional in places too. How lovely was their relationship. Really enoyed this. Breaks my heart that travellers are treated so unfairly. Things need to change , discrimination laws for a start!

I grew up poor in the US of Irish decent and I identify with this a lot and even though I can't say I am an Irish traveler seeing the culture pass breaks my heart.

Watching this in 2023 knowing that it's now been over 60 years from the original photographs and 20 years since this video, is hard on my soul, knowing that suicide was becoming a common cause of funerals in the early 00s and it's highest among traveler men in the UK now, in 20 years there's been no solution or help for this dying culture and still so much prejudice; is insulting to all humans everywhere.

I really enjoyed watching this documentary, and photos were lovely. It’s sad to hear that so many travellers take their own lives God bless all the travelling communities in all places of the world.

I found this story very moving. We take way to much for granted. If it wasn't for the Traveller's the USA would not be as great as it is today. We are a travelling society. It's not a big deal to live in a trailer here unless you come from wealth. But even they buy a RV. In fact home ownership is expensive, and for someplace ridiculous with rules, taxes. I've lived in both. You learn to appreciate more when you have less. Many seniors sell the house for a RV and settled for a simple life, people work offices from their trailers. Walmart use to let you RV park for free. Some trailers are so nice that you would sell your house.

I love that these people are getting better educations and some groups are even encouraging their children to go to university. That's awesome. EDUCATION IS THE KEY.

I've never heard of this series on RUclips before however glad I've found it, it is very interesting & informative, good to learn about the traditions & values of the travellers. X

Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. Currently, folk being made homeless will adapt. The irony eh. Tiny house nations taking hold. For some it's a choice. For those who have it in their blood though, it's made wrong. WTF!? I romanticise the "gypsy" life. But I do love my Gibson surname, back to the Egyptians...is it? Grandad fae Raphoe. All Hail Princess Scota 😀

That was a beautiful watch thank u so much for the upload ❤️ god bless x

The traveler are lovely people and not as bad as people think as I am one my self

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No one seems to grasp the ultimate suicide of the Travelers represented here. The big wedding is to a man who is not only not a Traveler, not only not Irish, but not white. The girl has found virtue signaling through her choice, proud that "no one likes." Of course, this is happening all over. But it's the opening and closing of this documentary and no one seems to realize it. The museum is the only place you'll find travelers and many if not all Europan ethnicities. And with the almost total uninterest in anthropology in non-Europeans, the museums themselves will eventually close and that is that.

Thank you for posting such high quality material, I enjoyed the documentary

I read your book and I am just a bit confused about something: when you say they believe "horsenails" bring good luck, you are talking about the nail itself? That grows in a horse foot?

Very lonesome watching this video after seeing it for the first time some years ago... I remember my father telling me he was reared up with the woman in the video called Nanny Nevin, my father always had great respect for her, I also remember seeing Nanny Nevin when we would visit family in Ireland. Then the part where Pa Maughan was filmed my uncle Ditsy McDonagh lives beside him and also my beautiful aunt Nancy McDonagh and her husband Mikey McDonagh Rip to them both lived beside them both as well, my cousin's still live there now, very sad looking back through the years. I'd just like to say there's good and bad in each community but you can't class all Travellers the same...

For information: those people are NOT Gypsies and have NOTHING to do with gypsies like wtf 😂😂

So they are not Romani, I presume.

Even the IRA couldn’t move them guys haha buy and sell you for sure you can have a right laugh with them guys

I remember the poverty of the travellers in the 1980s. It was harsh and I remember people being moved on. The caravans were tiny, no heat and no place to get rid of rubbish.i remember the travellers getting bullied at school if they came. It was so hard. We Irish rejected our own people of historic renown. These are some of the oldest people groups in Ireland with olde Irish words on their cant de gammon

I enjoyed watching this very much. I was especially touched by the man who told George that George had been his inspiration to stop travelling and to get an education, learn to read and write. George and Sharon were so respectful of the travellers, that it resulted in the travellers having more respect for themselves. That was very moving. Very moving.

The Gmelches were amazed to see how much the Travellers lived in the present. Travellers did not seem to focus on the future in the way that settled people did. "Tomorrow is always more of today .Tomorrow doesn't offer more promise than being any different than today. " It is interesting, when you think about this, because if you see life in this way, as George remarked, you are inclined to really take advantage of the moment, make the most of it. I want to think about this concept more. It seems so simple to say, but how to live this way, I am not sure. But I think it would be a healthier way of approaching life, and living the richest one possible.

How is it possible that siblings got married 40 years apart? The brother got married very young and the sister got married as an older bride?

As an Irish woman, I remember the Tinkers of old- In the late and early 60s They did a service and had what appeared to me to be a great bond with their children. I grew up in a very affluent family where my mother was a rural Dr and my father the veterinarian and I always remember them giving the Tinkers a place to have their caravans at the head of the road- They came and my mother gave them whatever they wanted- be it milk, eggs, butter, potatoes, chicken, money and the man would repair pots and pans. I had no idea of the discrimination as I was about 8 years of age but later when the same families came year after year I'd ride my bike to their encampment.I'd long for the sort of closeness the children seemed to have with their parents-I went to boarding school and would have switched lives, as to me, it was so smokey and romantic and free of all rules. Of course it had a side I never saw. But to a child and a teenager all I felt was...Interesting lives.

you must remember, that a lot of the men went of to join the war, and that left, women to do men's jobs, and when the men came back home, women weren't going to play the underdog, any more

it stays there in the blood, a racial memory, although not your own experience, it's there underneath. it's something i can relate to. if people show you no respect, then how can you respect them. if you treat people as if their no better than animals, then, how can you, be surprised, if they behave like animals, towards you ? it's tit for tat

I there should be written law in the constitution for travellers so rights are preserved.