How Itinerants Live 1965

http://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0430/697763-plight-of-itinerants/
This episode of ‘Discovery’ was broadcast on 30 April 1965, with narration by Brian Cleeve.

In 1965 the programme ‘Discovery’ looked at the plight of travellers in Ireland. The programme visits two campsites to see how their communities live.

This clip from the programme shows Itinerants at a roadside camp. Brian Cleeve describes the culture of begging that exists in the travelling community, describing it as almost the only education they will ever have. The programme comments on traveller education and the general treatment of travellers by the rest of society. Travellers describe their living conditions, and the treatment they experience at the hands of settled people which necessitates their constant travelling. Narrator, Brian Cleeve, also provides a brief history of the travellers and their way of life.

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