Shelta: Irish Traveller Cant
Description
This file contains two papers related to Shelta, or the language of Irish Travellers. This includes a photocopy of 'Irish Traveler Cant', by Jared Harper and Charles Hudson, from the 'Journal of English Linguistics', volume 5 (March 1971), pp. 78-86; and a photocopy of Ian F. Hancock's typed paper, 'Shelta: A Problem of Classification' (1974), 6, [1] leaves, with an accompanying ms. letter from Hancock to Institute Archivist Margaret Jackson (11 June 1974). Arranged in original accession number order.
Metadata
| Identifier | wd8gqtrn |
| IRN | 410842 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/19/4 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wd8gqtrn |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Dialect File |
| Date | 1971-1974 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of photocopied and ms. papers. |