Come on then, how many DUers have Irish roots?

[Jackeens]

Poll question: Come on then, how many DUers have Irish roots?

Jeez, there aren't many of us (four million to be precise-ish), but most of ye seem to have a bit of the auld Irish in ya, to be sure. So, how many DUers can claim at least a drop of Irish blood?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Great great grandparents born in Ireland

in "the far north of Ulster". Called themselves Irish, as did their children and grandchildren, even though the kids and grandkids had married people with other ancestry.

[Goblinmonger]

2. My wife has relatively recent Black Irish ancestors.

She's beautiful.

[Forkboy]

3. Irish/Scottish...and don't care about it either way.

Holidays....pffft.

St. Paddy's Day is actually a bad memory day for me because it'll be 33 years ago tomorrow that I got hit by a car, ruining an entire summer vacation and beyond. x(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Jackeens!

Now, I have some Irish blood...

Just how much, though, I'm not sure.

My dad's mom was an O'Sullivan, but she was born here. I don't know anything about her parents...

I'm not sure if there's any Irish on my mom's side of the family; they tend to be Scottish, or from Sweden!

I'm a Heinz 57 type: Northern European mongrel, and proud of it!

:patriot:

[musette_sf]

5. other: my stepfather is 101% Irish

[Phoonzang]

6. I'm black but approximately 13 percent european.

I don't know whether any of that 13 percent is Irish or not. I doubt it.

[FightingIrish]

7. My grandmother was born in Curragh Camp

My cousin had the good sense to become an Irish citizen because of our Irish grandmother. That was when being an American citizen was often embarrassing because of our fearsome leader. Now I'm content to be an O'Bama American.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. I'm part Leprechaun

Those of you have met me in person know of the family resemblance.

[ShortnFiery]

10. Cool. I've got a bit of PIXIE in me as well.

:silly:

[Jack Rabbit]

22. I take it by your screen name that it's easy for you to pick up on the joke

Is being part Pixie like being part Leprechaun? The ability to disappear, shape shift or make pots of gold is all in recessive genes. All we partial Leprechauns get to be is short.

[zipplewrath]

9. Half breed

My father was pure immigrant irish (3rd generation) and my mother was pure immigrant german (3rd generation). My father wasn't as much irish as he was Catholic though. Some folks held on to all that, my family came from folks who came to stay.

[CBHagman]

11. I'm currently researching it.

Or rather I have been for some years now. I always knew we had Irish branches on the family tree, but it wasn't until a few years back that I started checking Census records, naturalization records, etc., and talking to the second cousins I found through genealogy message boards. Unlike President Obama, I can't narrow my heritage down to a town or even a county, but I've got a stack of records and a few additional surnames I didn't know were in the family tree, and I have a copy of my Irish great-great-grandfather's naturalization papers.


From what I can tell, we have probably have roots in County Mayo and County Derry.

[DKRC]

19. Hey cousin!

County Mayo on my Dad's side.
:toast:
(Close enough on St.Paddy's day.)

[CBHagman]

39. Are we in the same family?

The Irish are on my father's side too.

Woo-hoo!

http://www.mayo.ie/en/media/Media,2522,en.jpg

[Captain Hilts]

12. Grandparent was Irish-Catholic from Liverpool.

IRA.

[FSogol]

13. 3 of my 4 Grandparents were born in Ireland The other was Irish too, but born here.

My sons will have to get by with being 50% Irish and 50% Bolivian.

[TheCoxwain]

14. I drink Guinness so often that my body cells are made up of molecules from the Irish Brew

I guess that makes me Irish!!!

[FSogol]

18. *grins* Sounds familiar.

"How do you feel? Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober." - The Thin Man

[Cleita]

15. My grandmother was part Irish, however, closer to me than that was my

dear late husband, whom I miss dearly, especially on days like this. He was born in Ireland, was a hundred percent Irish, even speaking the Gaelic language, and I met him on St. Patrick's Day. So today is a bittersweet day for me. I don't go out to celebrate, but I do light a candle.

[Jennicut]

16. Great great grandparent was born in Ireland.

Kiss me I'm Irish!

[H2O Man]

17. Quite.

My grandfather came here in 1879. I can trace the family back hundreds of years. I still have relatives that I am in touch with, that live a few miles from where my grandfather was born.

[Lilith Velkor]

33. That's a handsome fella.

I lost interest in my geneology when I found out I'm related to Ronald Reagan.

[H2O Man]

37. I think that picture

illustrates the attitude that the immigrant Irish needed, in order to not accept the inferior, second-class status that the larger society welcomed them with.

If I have time this evening, I'd like to post something about the Irish experience, both in the Old Sod and here. A number of my relatives were involved with the United Irishmen, and I have some poetry one of my grandfathers (going back many generations) wrote while being housed in a dungeon, waiting to be executed.

I suppose that we all have some nooses on branches of the family tree. Having Reagan somewhere back there is best viewed as proof of evolution.

[Binka]

47. Three Of My Grand Parents Were Born In Dublin

My Nan on my moms side came to the USA in the womb and was born on the 4th of July. Mary Teresa Gilleen is my birth name. I want to take Peyton to Ireland soon. My father took a bicycle tour of Ireland for 2 months back in 2002, he would have stayed except for his girlfriend. She doesn't like to be abroad. IMO he should have stayed but he has the means and time to travel. Hi buddy :hi:

[Fresh_Start]

20. My dad (the one I got when I was 5 years old)

was Irish through and through. So I claim Irish heritage on his behalf.
His birthday was St Patrick's day.
My son is named Patrick after him.

[TBF]

21. Just a bit and way back...

Mostly English and German by heritage, but supposedly my grandmother's father on my dad's side was born in Ireland. It would explain the bit of red hair that pops up in the family now and then.

[Ikonoklast]

23. My family came here in 1898.

Our family and Sept traces back to Dál gCais and are descended from Cormac Cais, a chieftain that lived in the second century AD.

[silverweb]

24. A wee drop.

My father's mother was an orphan, but family lore says she was part Irish.

Despite that, I still refuse to consume any food or drink that is not naturally green!

[phoenixriz]

25. 1/2 Irish

All of my mother's family is Irish. Maggie McGinnis Boyne as in the Boyne River, the Boyne Castle and the Battle of the Boyne. My dad was 1st generation Volga German from Russia.

[silverweb]

38. That's a nice clear heritage.

Simple and straightforward.

My bloodline is about half German, but the rest is such a stew that I call myself "a 4th-generation, American-born, Heinz-57 mutt."

Nice to meet you, phoenixriz, and welcome to DU. :hi:

[billyoc]

26. All four grandparents born in Ireland.

:hi:

[SteppingRazor]

27. My dad was the first one in my family born in America. Grandpa was born on the auld sod. n/t

[LostinVA]

28. Mother's family Irish -- from the West

[tekisui]

29. None, AKAIK. But, I did spend some time in Ireland.

It is a beautiful country with beautiful people. Wandering lost in a small town with my friend, an anonymous voice called us into a bar, and got us completely drunk on Guinness. We spent the night under an ancient henge.

One of the best trips I've ever taken.

[HillWilliam]

30. My 5-g's-granddad John Glen

arrived from Derry Diocese to Pennsylvania in 1751 and was recorded as having driven a supply wagon at Braddock's Defeat with Gen Washington's troops later. My Sullivan(t) ancestors arrived a bit later, just after the Rev War. My Farrells are a brick wall to me and will probably always be a genealogical mystery. The rest of my genealogy is English, Scots, Dutch, Norwegian and mysterious-Melungeon - an all-around suthren mutt :) The matrilineal DNA turn-up was most interesting, putting me in haplogroup U5a -- something in the early English woodpile, indeed, because I can trace my matrilineal line back to England through the early 1500s.

Genealogy is a frickin' way of life in my family. Sooner or later some aunt is going to school your ass on it. I've got it coming at me on both sides.

[polmaven]

31. While I do have Irish ancestors....

They are not what is typically considered "Irish" in this Country.

My great grandparents, the Kellys, were straight from "Orange country"..Northern Irish Protestants.

[Sinistrous]

32. One of my great-grandfathers was a Kennedy from County Claire.

[zulchzulu]

34. My middle name is Patrick n/t

[nevia sky]

35. I am 50% Irish!!!! Well, supposedly Scotch-Irish, but still!

Got my green shirt and bandana on this afternoon.

[DeschutesRiver]

36. I'm a Carney on my mom's side, like Obama is a Kearney on his mom's side

Kearney and Carney are spelling variations of the same name - they are pronounced the same as well.

In my case, my grandfather was a Carney. I think Obama's was a great great great grandfather. I remember reading about this during the campaign, and getting a kick out of it!

[otohara]

40. Dugan Prior to Turning Japanese

via marriage.
1/2 Irish

[Ocracoker16]

41. 1/8 Irish

My great grandparents were from Ireland.

[Raine]

42. Great, great, great grandfather came from Ireland before the Civil

War (US Civil War that is).

[flvegan]

43. What's an "Ireland?"

Land of ire? No idea.

:hide:

[Jackeens]

46. LOL.....you're absolutely right, it IS the land of Ire....especially these days!! n/t

[Grateful for Hope]

44. Other

My maiden name is Frawley -- I am nearly 100% second generation.

[Hansel]

45. My grandmother was born in Ireland

She's protestant (orange) Irish. My Mother was Catholic Irish. My Grandmother was so angry that my Dad married a Catholic that she disowned him and refused to come to the wedding. I'm more than a little bit Irish. Except on St. Patrick's Day when everyone dresses goofy and gets slobbering drunk and claim to be Irish. It's embarrassing. :beer:

[Hellataz]

48. My Great Grandfather was Irish

[Jackeens]

49. Holy smoley: 81% of DUers are Irish!!!! (Or Irish-ish)

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Brother Buzz]

50. Great grandfather was English but born in Ireland

Orange parents work for the Crown in some minor capacity. He hightailed it out of Ireland and headed to America via Australia and Canada. He lived in Washington state for a bit but settled in California.

He died a week before the great San Francisco fire of 1906. His body was in transit from Sonoma County to the Odd Fellow cemetery in San Francisco when the earthquake and ensuing fire struck. The shipping company lost him and all the records in all the confusion and fire. The family still owns the empty plot that was even transfered to Colma when the city moved all the cemeteries, but we still haven't found my great grandfather.

[riderinthestorm]

51. I'm an Irish citizen (dual US and Irish citizenship). nt

[RepublicanElephant]

52. tenuous... as in a slave-owning plantation owner named farely. nt

:yoiks:

[Naturyl]

53. Roughly 1/3 Irish.

Another third Italian, a little bit of Cherokee, and the rest mutt.

So yeah, I argue and drink. :)

[marlakay]

54. I am 3/4 Irish and 1/4 english

Just came back from bar with St pat's party. Lots of fun. We wore our green hats and I wore my pin TGII Thank God I'm Irish!!

[Hepburn]

55. Not one drop of Irish blood....

...50% Romanian, 25% Yugoslav, and 25% Croatian.

:hi:

[xenussister]

56. My grandfather's parents were Irish

They moved to America and grandpa was born in Iowa. I'm also from Swedish and German stock.


Edit to ask, is it a big deal over there that your Prime Minister is visiting and met with President Obama? I'd think so, but I haven't had much time to read the net today. Any cool, gushing articles you can point me to?

[IndianaGreen]

57. On Saint Patrick's Day, I am Irish

He was the first Jewish saint, don't ya know?

:-)

Best Guinness Commercial EVER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrSSSfYE2dQ

[Hekate]

58. Cassidy, O'Hara, Mallooly, Quinn.... those are a few in my family history...

:hi:

Hekate

[SoCalDem]

59. My grandfather.. Joseph Francis O'Shea..

the babies are him and his twin sister...picture must have been taken in 1882 or thereabouts
some really wild names in my background.. Zollycopter:wtf:

and they were related to the Macabees
http://www.mccabeclan.com/trainor.htm

some great old pictures at this site





a. Ellen Eulalia O'SHEA <1881-1967> m (1) Gideon H. STOLZFUS <1877-1913>
and m (2) Vance Wellen ESTES <1874-1946>

b. Mary Elizabeth O'SHEA <1883-1915> m Jacob BACHOFER <1873-1956>

c. Thomas Peter O'SHEA <1885-1966> m Katherine Eveline CONDE <1895-1968>,
d/o Edwin Zollycopher "Frank" CONDE and Jennie Marie DRAIN

d. Agnes Cecilia O'SHEA <1887-1905>

e. Joseph Francis O'SHEA <1890-1961> m Emma Louise BEILER <1888-1961>

f. Josephine Ann O'SHEA <1890-1981> (twin of Joseph) m Lewellen Elsworth FLEMING <1879-1956>

g. James George O'SHEA Sr. <1893-1967> m Sarah Alida CONDE <1893-1993>,
d/o Edwin Zollycopher "Frank" CONDE and Jennie Marie DRAIN



ii Patrick Joseph O'SHEA <1850-1906> m Barbara Elizabeth DELL <1855-1910>
d/o Nicholas DELL and Catherine .........., having three children:

a. Thomas Leo O'SHEA <1883-1891>

b. Henry O'SHEA <1885-1885>

c. Mary Eleanor O'SHEA <1887-1929> m Edward Joseph STRECKFUS <1881-1940>

[vaberella]

60. I'm Haitian as Haitian can be. My European bloodline is Spanish, French, German.

Lots of French and German. My sister has Greek. However, one of my Haitian cousins married an Irish guy.

[Urban Prairie]

61. The red tint to my hair and a splash of freckles.

From my 1/4 Irish ancestry.