List of Irish Travellers

This is a list of Irish Travellers.

• Francie Barrett has been a professional boxer since August 2000, and now fights at light welterweight, out of Wembley, London
• Margaret Barry was a Traveller from Cork who became a well-known name on the London folk scene in the 1950s, with her distinctive singing style and idiosyncratic banjo accompaniment.
• Patrick "Paddy" Doherty, a former bare-knuckle boxer. He is best known as one of the interviewed Irish Travelers in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2011.
• Johnny Doran was one of the most influential uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music, active during the first half of the 20th century.
• Pecker Dunne is a well known Traveller and singer from County Wexford, Ireland.^[1]
• Brendon Fearon, career criminal in Nottinghamshire and major player in the attempted robbery of Tony Martin's farmhouse which left Fearon's partner, 16 year old Fred Barass, also a Traveller, dead, and Fearon wounded, after the homeowner shot the intruders.
• Tyson Fury, a professional boxer based in Manchester, England
• Michael Gomez, a professional boxer based in Manchester, England, was born to an Irish Traveller family in County Longford.
• Bartley Gorman was the "king" of the gypsies and undefeated bareknuckle boxing champion until his death in 2002.
• Nan Joyce is a pioneering Irish Travellers' rights activist.
• Paddy Keenan, piper, is a foundational member of the Bothy Band in the 1970s and a key figure in the transition of Irish traditional music into the world of Celtic-dominated music.^[2]
• Andy Lee - WBO Middleweight world champion
• John Joe Nevin – Irish International and Olympic Boxer
• John O'Donnell, boxer
• John Reilly was a traditional Irish singer and source of songs.
• Shayne Ward, singer and former winner of X Factor, whose parents are Irish travellers who settled in England
• Mike Ward, singer and runner up/finalist from The Voice UK, he has Irish traveller roots on his fathers side and is also cousins with X Factor winner Shayne Ward

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