A Trip to the Bountiful: The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane

Notes: The Irish travellers, comparable to Gypsies, are a nomadic social group who live often in caravan camps or travel and have developed a distinct culture and history in Ireland. (They are considered an ethnic group under British law and a social group under Irish law).

Sandhog is a slang term used to urban construction workers and miners who work in underground excavation, such as the Water Tunnel project that Michael Ward works on in New York. The term was first used to describe the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1872.

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