User:Spideog/Sandbox/Irish Traveller timeline

This is a timeline of Irish Traveller history.

1963

 * August – Publication of the Report of the Commission on Itinerancy.

1982

 * 24 November – Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to run for a Dáil seat during the general election of November 1982. Although unelected, she won twice as many votes as her hostile anti-Traveller constituency opponent.

2015

 * 10 October – Carrickmines fire: A chip pan fire swept through a halting site in Carrickmines, County Dublin, killing 11 Travellers including five adults, five children, and an unborn child. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny ordered flags to fly at half-mast on the days of the victims' funerals. A letter of condolence from Pope Francis was read to mourners at one funeral for five of the victims. Hundreds of Travellers, including relatives of the victims, had an audience in the Vatican with the Pope on 26 October.

2017

 * 1 March – The Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced in the Dáil the formal recognition by the Irish State of Irish Travellers – numbering 40,000 people in Ireland and Northern Ireland – as an indigenous ethnic minority. He said, "It is a historic day for our Travellers and a proud day for Ireland." President Michael D. Higgins welcomed the event as a "momentous decision".


 * June – Patrick Mongan of the Traveller community represented the Irish Athletic Boxing Association at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Ukraine.

2018

 * Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018.