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Sara Keating: Traveller Pride Week gives a poetic voice to marginalised group
How Rosaleen McDonagh reclaimed the derogatory term which is normally used to describe members of the minority community
Last month, during an interview on Canadian music channel Much, pop star Dermot Kennedy used the word “knacker” as an example of Irish slang. “If you call somebody a knacker, that's really bad," he said. “But it's like a classic thing . . . like if you were sitting at a table and someone took your food, you'd be like, ‘Ah, ya knacker.’”
Although Kennedy made no explicit reference to Travellers in this interview (which ...
