The question is "How Irish are you?

With all the emigration, immigration & free movement of population and that the world is full of "mongrels"
The question is "How Irish are you?

Edit: stupid formatting!

Kinetic^

100% Irish meat!!!!!!!

25% one Grandparent

Wow! that was quick - I was still doing the poll

Unpossible

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Wouldn't 75% be having 3 Irish grandparents? or is that what you meant by one parent & one grandparent?


How about finding out many people have celtic, norman, viking names? going back lets say 2-3 generations

spurious

Not Irish at all at all

All Irish people are mongrels - it's what comes of being an island nation.

Dave!

Father's surname, Irish / Mother's surname, Scottish

Father's mother's surname, Irish / Mother's mother's surname, Norman (?)

My parents and grandparents and great grandparents, and probably before them for a few generations, were all born in Ireland, but their surnames quickly become foreign as you go back.

I've done the very start (ie. this generation, previous, previous, and some of before that) of a family tree, some day hopefully I'll finish it! It'd be cool to be able to give it to my kids and grandkids.

Rb

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Polish.

humbert

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

By that scale I'm 100% Irish but I don't feel very Irish, any more that I feel very catholic for been born a catholic.

Plug

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

rb_ie wrote:

Polish.

Polish

Zombienosh

I'm from svalbard

AlcoholicA

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

AlcoholicA wrote:

I'm from svalbard

Wooo Svalbard!

eamoss

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

100% Irish! I know all my great grandparents are all Irish and from Mayo!

Tho I can get the British Passport

Unpossible

25% one Grandparent

Unpossible wrote:

Wouldn't 75% be having 3 Irish grandparents? or is that what you meant by one parent & one grandparent?

Yes, but I was thinking of my own family when I set the poll.
I'm 50% my wife 100% & the children 75%
3 Grandparents would have looked better

Unpossible

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

spurious wrote:

All Irish people are mongrels - it's what comes of being an island nation.

No, its what happens when an island has a bunch of invasions and has a lot of trade ports.

Caliden

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

done family trees for both sides of my family and they've been here for as far back as I could find.

yay

robinph

eamoss wrote:

100% Irish! I know all my great grandparents are all Irish and from Mayo!

Tho I can get the British Passport

100% not Irish but I can get an Irish passport.

Pherekydes

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

You do realise that the 1-99% option covers the 25-50-75 options, don't you?

Kojak

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

100% irish - all my grand-parents, and great-grand parents were irish

Slow coach

25% one Grandparent

Slow coach wrote:

You do realise that the 1-99% option covers the 25-50-75 options, don't you?

Yes, but those are already covered, t'was intended for those who don't have a direct one two three grandparents ancestory!

WhiteWashMan

surely 'being irish' is a state of mind, rather than your ancestory for the last 2 generations?

after all, if you go back far enough, im sure most people here have english ancestory.
and most english people have norse or celtic ancestory, or god forbid even roman (or is that italian now?)

however, i have no irish blood at all in the last 2 generations, but i still hold an irish passport, spent 20 years of my life there, support the national teams, can sing the national anthem in irish, went to an irish school, was fluent in irish and have an irish accent.
i wonder, does that make me more irish than people who were born in ireland and know no irish?

personally, im of the opinion that if you feel irish, then why not.

Black Swan

If my ancient cousin drowned in the Corrib and her Da named a city after her, does that count?

Red Hand

You are related to Saint Francis!?! Cool! Always wondered how that city came to be named.:p

OP, I have no idea of "purity" of my heritage.:) My clan have lived in the same area of North Kerry for 3-4 generations, but who knows after that? Anyway, Irishness is just a mindset. I don't know how relevant Irishness is to me personally. I've got a thick accent, yes. Aaaand thats about it.:)

bmaxi

How could you possibly quantify this? Are we going back to the Fir Bolg or was there somebody here before them? I personally feel it's the contribution you make to the country today that matters. Oh and I once had a pint of Guinness, does that count?

Ruu_Old

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Family tree goes well back with all born in Ireland, so 100% but I'm living abroad at the moment on super sekrit business. My surname belonged to some ulster chief I believe.

Black Swan

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:

You are related to Saint Francis!?! Cool! Always wondered how that city came to be named.:p

Gaillimh silly Fox!

Mossy Monk

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

if one is born in Ireland does that not make them 100% Irish. or can i claim to be 25% American?

robinph

Mossy Monk wrote:

if one is born in Ireland does that not make them 100% Irish. or can i claim to be 25% American?

Only if your mam was on the US border when you were born with just one leg that side of the border.

Overheal

25% one Grandparent

I havent a drop of your mongrel blood in me, but THIS tells me I'm 55% Irish. I RULE!

Karl Hungus

25% one Grandparent

Deleted User wrote:

the world is full of "mongrels"

Lovely! :rolleyes:

Unpossible

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Only if your mam was on the US border when you were born with just one leg that side of the border.

in order to be Irish and 25% american? sounds like a bit of a stretch to me

PurpleFistMixer

25% one Grandparent

50% Irish, 25% Chilean, 25% English I believe. Though I was born and have lived in Ireland my whole life so I feel entirely Irish, really. I think where you grow up/live affects you more than your blood.

Red Hand

Ruu wrote:

Family tree goes well back with all born in Ireland, so 100% but I'm living abroad at the moment on super sekrit business. My surname belonged to some ulster chief I believe.

Some Ulster chief that done my Munster Chief forebear out of two prime bullocks and a heifer back on 2nd May 829AD, thats all!:mad:

Adds Ruu to list of enemies

RasTa

25% one Grandparent

50% according to the poll, but my non Irish parent fecked off b4 I was born and I was raised by a bunch of Paddy's!

Terry

I'm French.
Why do you think I have this outrageous accent?

InFront

Not Irish at all at all

My name is Infront, I am from Internetistan.

DoesNotCompute

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Kenny 5 wrote:

100% Irish meat!!!!!!!

Me too!

Also: "Mongrels"?? Isn't that a bit insulting ?

DoesNotCompute

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Unpossible wrote:

How about finding out many people have celtic, norman, viking names? going back lets say 2-3 generations

On which side? Mother's or fathers? Father's side I'd presume?

I think my mums side comes from the Normans.. apparently an ancestor was one of the first Normans to invade Ireland. Not sure about my Dad's family.

1000%

Killaqueen!!!

My dads parents and their side of the family are 100% Irish but on my mothers side there is a bit of Scottish in there somewhere but this is going back to my Grandads great great grandfather! It's hard to keep track!

So what does that percentage make me? Pretty much 100% Irish!

Damn my parents being Protestant though - if I was Catholic I would feel a lot more Irish.

DoesNotCompute

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Overheal wrote:

THIS

Worst designed webpage EVAR.


Seriously.

admiralofthefleet

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

100% Irish, irish parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, although my granny was born in london to irish parents and returned here after 3 days

robinph

Killaqueen!!! wrote:

f I was Catholic I would feel a lot more Irish.

Because it all comes down to the version of an imaginary supernatural being that you belive in really isn't it for defining ones nationality.

InFront

Not Irish at all at all

Isn't nationality itself an imaginary supernatural being?

Kold

Not Irish at all at all

Father is a Tipp man, mother from Saigon.


I consider myself English by nationality although the only patriotism I feel is in sport. Except when they do as dire as they did today..

arbeitsscheuer

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

100% back to the arrival of the Normans... and possibly even beyond, the lineage gets a little hazy if ya go further back in time!
May be related to Richard de Clare (Strongbow) but it's difficult to ascertain the veracity of such a familial myth when you're talking about descendancy over a period of almost 850 years

However, I myself was born in London, so my 'nationality' is best summer up by Morrisey; "Irish Blood, English Heart"

arbeitsscheuer

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

InFront wrote:

Isn't nationality itself an imaginary supernatural being?

Heh, I actually used that premise as the basis for an essay in my Politics Finals.
I got a 2:2, just in case anyone cares.

peasant

Kraut, Fritz, Gerry ...Vorsprung durch Technik ...whatever you want to call it.

Not Irish ...still living here though ...by choice, I might add

imeddyhobbs

Guarantee ya one thing lad,im quare irish

snickerpuss

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Fully Irish unless you wanna go back to the Normans. But thats quite a long time ago. So i won't.

Unpossible

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

On which side? Mother's or fathers? Father's side I'd presume?

Well I was thinking of just looking at all 4 grandparents family names (or great grandparents if you can get that far).

For instance my fathers side is O'Connell (with his mother being a Gaynor), and my mothers side is O'Brien (with her mother being a Galvin), I think all are Gaelic except for Galvin (but then Im not sure about that either, Im just told we* all came from two brothers in the east of Ireland a few hundred years ago), I do know on my maternal grandmothers side there is some connection to the Fitzgeralds, but Im sure there must be more Norman names if I go back.

*Galvins I mean, the O'Connell side didn't even leave Kerry