The Future Of Irish Travellers

My thoughts on the challenges facing Traveller culture in post-modern Ireland

Something I have wanted to do for a long time is to document my worries about the future of the Irish Travellers in this increasingly restrictive world. Irish Travellers have now effectively been removed from the roads due to bigoted laws that targeted our way of life. Most of these laws were sneaky and indirect but the truth of the matter is that Irish Travellers were outlawed intentionally and forced to integrate into what was then a society transitioning from a conservative libertarian one, into the progressive autocracy where your every move is measured and used against you. There is also a massive attack on the catholic faith in Ireland with the Irish Travellers being the last sub group of Irish society holding the church firm.

Irish Travellers have a strong connection still to the catholic faith, but this is starting to waiver. They have an iron-clad belief in the family unit and uphold centuries old courting traditions. Their system of barter, bargaining and trade relies heavily on cash. Although illegal activity is associated with Travellers, I argue that the function creep of the digital economy is effectively outlawing cash itself, corralling the means of wealth acquisition into increasingly limited options for the Irelands post-nomadic sub-culture. Car boot sales, door to door sales and the buy and sell magazines and online forums are the last chance saloon of the Irish travellers and to be honest, free market peer-to-peer exchange in general for all of Irelands people. Cash is essential for all of the cultural practices of Irish Travellers and they need to join the fight to save it. Without cash, the new wealthy generation of travellers will be no more, slaves to a digital surveillance system that tracks every payment big or small.

The right to travel is something also that has been allowed to fall to the wayside. Captured government funded community groups that claim to support travellers have abandoned such a right, instead championing pre-marital relationships, LGBTQ+ and feminism, all the things that aim to destroy traveller culture. Thankfully Traveller children are taught at a young age about the the ill intentions of government and their do-gooder NGO’s, and they for the most part give them a wide berth, but there is a small section of the lower end of the economic spectrum of travellers reliant on state supports that end up in trouble for petty crimes such as theft, assault and drug related crimes. These Travellers are preyed upon by the state who offer them leniency in return for their endorsement and their approval for state incentives. Community groups fill their race quotas out of these tactics. Groups of this nature are in every county, screaming racism to the rafters while pushing the very narratives that are destroying travellers.

In a society that claims to champion diversity and inclusion you would expect the cultural migration practices of Ireland nomads to be included into any discussion of that sort but they have never intended to be diverse or inclusive. There is a new type of homogeneity that wealthy big wigs, obsessed with demographics, are perpetrating against the Irish Travellers. According to them, we must drop our ultra-traditional practices, our tribal sovereignty and our wildness. We must stop having large families, marrying our own, and enforcing sex based roles within our system. They want to stop us moving around the various territories and mixing with each other. They want to “include” travellers inside their 15 minute cities, a move which would break the network of intermarried families down and separate us, forcing us to marry out, rather than marry in, and lose our very culture in one to two generations.

The right to keep horses is also on the chopping block with new mandatory horse censuses. Perhaps the most communistic thing of all as far as travellers are concerned is this intervention into their animal husbandry practices. Although there are certainly animal welfare issues within the traveller community, they are overblown and exaggerated as part of the wider animal ownership agenda which is that all pet ownership is under attack. For Travellers, Horses are not merely pets, but they are working animals but also a means of wealth generation and retention. They have also preserved particular breeds and posses word of mouth knowledge of such animals, centuries old. They also have bred certain breeds of dogs to hunt effectively the wild animals of this island. They have perfected the art of self sufficiency and coexistence. The other things have to be mentioned too, the feuds etc. These are negative aspects of our culture, sure, but every culture has negative aspects. I am happy to remind any other group in society about theirs should they see fit to ask.

Ask yourselves, Country man and Traveller, this question: What do you think happens when you strip a nomadic horse-faring people of their freedom and their habits?

There is no group in Irish society right now upholding the natural order of family life better than the Travellers. The tradition of marriage, sex based roles, cash economy and songs and stories abound. Our birth rates are far higher than the general population. These are the same traditions and birthrates of all Irish people years ago but the rest of Ireland has lost its way. Irish Travellers need to take their place among Irelands fight back against the madness we have seen unfold in the last few years. We also need to impose our way of life on Irelands landscape rather than have this liberal society swallow us whole. The half of me that knows this needs to happen, the country boy in me, knows that Travellers must take a leading role on this because I see the false sense of assuredness in the elders. They have side stepped much of the stats intervention, but this time it is different. We cannot be on the outside living off the difference, we must be right in the mix fighting for the future of Ireland. If we don’t we have ourselves to blame. If we don’t we will lose cash, horses, land, large families, traditional weddings, means of wealth generation and even our ability to pass on our wealth to our children. They are after it all.

My message to any Traveller that took the time to read this is to talk to your parents, your children, your family and your wider network. Sound the alarm bells. We are fighting for our identity here and Irelands identity also. The Country people in Ireland have strayed from God. They have indulged in the very worst that decadence can offer and that rot has found its way into us. We have men grooming themselves like 16 year old girls, flaunting flashy cars and watches and going with prostitutes. Cocaine use is through the roof amongst us, reinforcing the very worst aspects of our egos. Our women are on planes to Turkey twice a year copying the very type of styles fads and fashions that the older generations warded against. Modesty is on a knifes edge within traveller women and Traveller men. Turn back now and save the next generation from this societal collapse.

My words here are not too far removed from the vast majority of the sentiment amongst Travellers, however they may not feel that it is their place to get involved in societies woes, as the traditional stance for travellers was remain on the periphery of the rat race and live amongst themselves. They also may feel that the travellers already involved in community groups have these issue covered. The truth is that they don’t. They get grants, suspended sentences and their picture in the local paper. They are never educated on politics or the trouble we are in. As Travellers we have only every been mobilised once, and that was only to make us a minority on paper in order to uses us and our screams and howls of racism to bring in the Hate Speech bill which will lock all of us up for mild humorous utterances. We need to drop the outrage at the word Knacker for starters. Do not become the niggers of Ireland like this government wants. Rise above it. I can only apologise for not being more vocal at the time to steer people away from that disastrous move. We are indeed unique and distinct, but we are Irish and this is the land that bore us. We are Irish. Those out there that claim to be for the little guys, the downtrodden, are not our friends. They are communists. We must consider nationhood and politics as a future solution for our breed so as we can force a path for ourselves and push out those who have represented us insufferably, or not at all. This must happen with a sense of national pride so as to resist the globalist push for the destruction of our culture.

The future of Irish Travellers is Nationalist.