Europe has plenty of marginalised social groups, often with traditions of nomadism and their own languages: Irish Tinkers, for example, who speak Shelta.
In today's catechesis we turn to Saint Columban, one of the many Irish monks who contributed to the re-evangelization of Europe in the early Middle Ages.
Steve Kloves, the scriptwriter, stated during a writers' conference that he wrote it as "Greek chappie," but that it was somehow changed to "Irish chappie" during filming.
'' Aware that these Irish peasants have died, as he puts it, ''in the dark,'' Dixon is also aware of both the sonorousness of his wordplay and the excitement it gives him to use it.