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1. Travelling Folk

   

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   Travelling people sometimes call to my home, different ones each time. They are not very poor because they make tin cans and tea-drawers and they swop donkeys and other animals, and they make money in this way. Those who make tin articles are called Tinkers. They buy the tin in the shops in town. They get a sheet of tin and they put it in the shape of a can and they put it together with solder. Tinkers are great people for bargaining.

   

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2. Travelling Folk

   

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   Travelling people call to our home and ask for bottles and rags and money and sometimes for milk and potatoes, butter and other food. The same people have always come to our house and ask for the same things. Some of them are very poor and others are not poor at all. They sell small articles for big prices. The farmers buy them and give something as well. They sell cans, mugs,

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary E. Kavanagh

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Brigid Kavanagh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   55

   Address

   Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Patrick Kavanagh

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   54

   Address

   Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford