RobbieTheRobber wrote: » You said I'm not Irish because I don't have a clan name so back up your claims or retract them. Don't be a chicken now and try weasel out. I don't have an Irish surname does that mean I am not Irish?
Deleted User wrote: » If you wish to be so petty then I'll say that you are the exception that proves the rule. Does that make you feel happier? Now toddle off and get your DNA checked rather than playing out this "I'm a poor little lost soul who knows not where he comes from" melodrama to an indifferent audience.
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » What utter scutter. Are people with Norman surnames irish in your fantasyland of racial purity in the Irish clan names?
Deleted User wrote: » Yes they are. As the saying goes "more Irish than the Irish themselves".
yaknowski wrote: » Tis ulitmately about cheap labour for business isn't it. Drove down to McDonalds for some breakfast. Three Mid-40s South-Asian lads sitting outside in their cars waiting for delivery. Good luck to them earning a crust, but really it's only for big business' benefit and the taxpayer is on the hook for the rest of the costs associated with living here.
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » Are you calling me infantile?
[Deleted User] wrote: » This is tiresome. Get a DNA test. You are dealing in hypotheticals where no hypotheticals need to exist.
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » 20 states in the USA allow marriage between first cousins. 3 more allow it if the people getting married are over 55 or 65 depending on the state. That country really is a **** hole
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » You made the statement that if you don't have an Irish clan name you are not irish. Support your own statement or admit it was nonsense. I have never said I didn't get a DNA test but my surname as passed on by the males of my line is not a clan name. Not ever. For the past hundreds of years my family name has married with people of Irish surnames and British. Those Irish and British family also have norse and French genetics like most of the Irish population added in so what the do you think I'm going to find in a DNA test a magic surname generator.
[Deleted User] wrote: » I've been reasonable up until now. I stand over my statement. You obviously have your own issues. I'm not going to agree with you despite how overbearing you choose to be. In fact I will push back on you and say you are the bullsh!tter who can't reconcile your family tree but claim to be Irish although you won't do the heavy lifting involved in determining your origin. I will not engage with you on this topic further. Do your own research. If you don't have the pedigree in your hand and in the absence of DNA tests you have only "strongly held beliefs".
Joeytheparrot wrote: » Nah. Its completely unreasonable for you to decide you know someones nationality and everyone else is wrong.
Deleted User wrote: » I've been reasonable up until now. I stand over my statement. You obviously have your own issues. I'm not going to agree with you despite how overbearing you choose to be. In fact I will push back on your and say you are the bullsh!tter who can't reconcile your family tree but claim to be Irish although you won't do the heavy lifting involved in determining your origin. I will not engage with you on this topic further. Do your own research. If you don't have the pedigree in your hand and in the absence of DNA tests you have only "strongly held beliefs".
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » I have had a DNA test. I know the makeup of my family. I know my family name. I have a reasonable knowledge of where it came from but not when. My family name has lived in Ireland for several hundreds of years. I can trace my family throughout Ireland using available Irish records (births/deaths/marriages/census). By any metric I am Irish I don't need you to say so to validate anything about me. My name is not a clan name, you stated quite clearly. If you dont have a clan name you are not Irish. But I am so are all my extended family so are all of the other people who live in ireland but do not have clan names such as (Campbell, Burns, Reid, Graham, Scott) or any of the gaelicised name such as those of norman origin. Our Taoiseach and Tánaiste do not have Irish clan names are they not Irish to you?
RandRuns wrote: » Why are you getting so worked up about it?
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » I have had a DNA test. I know the makeup of my family. I know my family name. I have a reasonable knowledge of where it came from but not when. My family name has lived in Ireland for several hundreds of years. I can trace my family throughout Ireland using available Irish records (births/deaths/marriages/census). By any metric I am Irish I don't need you to say so to validate anything about me. My name is not a clan name, you stated quite clearly. If you dont have a clan name you are not Irish. But I am so are all my extended family so are all of the other people who live in ireland but do not have clan names such as (Campbell, Burns, Reid, Graham, Scott) or any of the gaelicised name such as those of norman origin. Our Tánaiste does not have an Irish clan name is he not Irish to you?
WrenBoy wrote: » Robbie, its not a big deal. Who cares really ?
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » Do you agree with that poster that those without Irish Clan names are not Irish?
RandRuns wrote: » I couldn't care less.
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » Then stay out of the discussion!
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » And what if my child does not look Irish because his mother is not Irish and has my non traditional Irish surname and is told he is not Irish. Should I just accept that too?
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » Our Tánaiste does not have an Irish clan name is he not Irish to you?
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » It doesn't matter than I an Irish person am being told I'm not Irish because I lack the correct name? You don't see the broader issue with accepting intolerance like that?
fantaiscool wrote: » But what is Indigenous Irish when your gene pool has been essentially "diluted" to use a phrase many on here will be familiar with as it's used by racists.
bubblypop wrote: » I was told by a poster on here that I wasn't really Irish, and no-one actually believes that children born abroad to Irish parents are actually irish!!