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Thread #159092   Message #3767922
Posted By: akenaton
25-Jan-16 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Travellers on the move
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Travellers on the move
You fail to see that society, not the travellers per se, is the PROBLEM.

There is unfortunately no immediate sign that any meaningful change is about to take place in society......you should know what needs to be done, yet you stick to the illusion of social change which we have seen over the last couple of decades.
Financial aspiration has killed many cultures ruined our environment and most importantly to me, desolated the countryside and ways of life in which the travellers were an integral part.

I have worked with the old Scottish tinkers, shared a can of tea and a wee dram with them after weary days on our hands and knees thinning turnips in the long dry summers, under the whirling tumbling Peewits and listening to their wild melancholy cries.....makes me sad just to think about it.......all gone, even the Peesies and all the other birds which were the evening song of the West of Scotland....Ake