The 300th Ballinasloe Horse Fair

A selection of my impressions snapped at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair (County Galway, Ireland), the oldest horse fair in Europe, held since the first half of the 1700s. It is a traditional meeting place of the Irish Travellers, who resemble in their lifestyle to the Roma (Gypsies), yet there are not genetically connected with them. The Travellers diverged from the Irish about 500 years ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep42187 None of the snaps is posed, all are candids. Ofc, my subjects do notice on some occasions being in my focus, yet, for the sake of channeling the purest, sincere emotions, I try to keep such instances at the minimum.