In episode one the team begins work on the project and starts by recording the experiences and stories close family relatives. Prominent among which are the personal tales of the ‘bogey man’ of Irish Travellers, ‘The Cruelty Man’.
The last fifty years has been a time of huge change for Irish Travellers this episode focuses in on stories of ‘arranged marriages’ and life before and after settlement.
Travellers and Irish ‘settled people’ have a shared history, even if this developed into separate cultures many years ago. This closing episode of the series uses modern DNA analysis to look for possible answers as to the reasons why.
