Genetic analysis says they have Irish blood as well as Scandinavian blood from the North.
But research has yielded conflicting result in terms of their origin.
Who the heck are these people?
Billy joe and Fury look as celtic as they come. Was it just a group of Irish people that decided to live differently?
Well at the risk of showing my ignorance I always thought Gypsies were from Romania and surrounding areas, crazy.
Not all of them...Romany gypsies are dark skinned like people from India but often mixed. The Irish travelers if I'm not mistaking really weren't gypsies. They were nomadic people who were referred to as gypsies because of their nomadic lifestyle and basically...the name stuck.
I was once pick-pocketed by 2 nearly 90 year old Romany gypsy women and an infant outside the Vatican. They cleaned me out...even my pocket lint was gone and I had absolutely no inkling whatsoever it was happening. I learned that if you see them to cross the street because they are incredibly crafty at robbing you blind no matter how old or young they are.
Travelers are more likely to scam you than pick your pockets.
Fascinating stuff.
Did you know the genetic differences? How are they genetically different
All I know is there's as much distance between them and the rest of the Irish population as there is between the Irish and the Scots or Spanish. Those genetic differences generally don't mean anything, beyond telling you that the two populations were separated.
In Ireland it used to be fairly widely believed that they became nomadic during the famine and that was their origin. But apparently that's not true. Given that they apparently split from the rest of the population it could have something to do with the colonization of Ulster, where huge numbers of people would have been driven from their ancestral homes.
Apart from being nomadic the other big part of their identity was whatever trade they were associated with. That's where the 'tinker' and 'knacker' names for them came from, both of which became racial slurs over time. Tinkers because they were known as small scale metal workers who could repair tin buckets and the like. Knacker because they dealt with horses.
Interestingly the origin of 'knacker' is 'nakkur', a Norse or Scandinavian word.
Her real booty is so nice I honestly didn't notice the difference in the photos.
I'll swap it, though
haha, I'm not hating on you brah, just a pet peeve you know how it is.
No one really knows. They don't have a written tradition of their own so their history is a mystery. They are genetically distinct from the mainstream Irish population. The best guess is that they are historically native to Ireland but at some point 500-600 years ago they split from the rest of society for a reason that hasn't been identified.
It's a strange one for sure.
Fascinating stuff.
Did you know the genetic differences? How are they genetically different
It really is, that's why it pisses me off when i see photoshops of already sweet bootys.
Her real booty is so nice I honestly didn't notice the difference in the photos.
I'll swap it, though
No one really knows. They don't have a written tradition of their own so their history is a mystery. They are genetically distinct from the mainstream Irish population. The best guess is that they are historically native to Ireland but at some point 500-600 years ago they split from the rest of society for a reason that hasn't been identified.
It's a strange one for sure.
Well at the risk of showing my ignorance I always thought Gypsies were from Romania and surrounding areas, crazy.
It's a really interesting subject actually. Most reports are conflicting on the roma origin in europe.
Some people think north africa, perhaps
People native to Ireland who has travelling nomadic lifestyle... They have no relations with Romani Gypsies who came from India.
Well at the risk of showing my ignorance I always thought Gypsies were from Romania and surrounding areas, crazy.
Billy joe is Romani apparently his ancestors are from northern India
pfffff I understand they claim to be romani, but none of the genetic analysis confirm that.
Wikipedia even said they have more viking blood than indian or some other distant ethnic group