The question is "How Irish are you?

Red Hand · 24-02-2007 10:17PM

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 · 24-02-2007 10:30PM

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 · 24-02-2007 10:33PM

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

InFront · 24-02-2007 11:31PM

Not Irish at all at all

My name is Infront, I am from Internetistan.

DoesNotCompute · 24-02-2007 11:41PM

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Kenny 5 wrote:

100% Irish meat!!!!!!!

Me too!

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

DoesNotCompute · 24-02-2007 11:43PM

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?

24-02-2007 11:44PM

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.

24-02-2007 11:45PM

1000%

Killaqueen!!! · 24-02-2007 11:50PM

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 · 24-02-2007 11:52PM

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Overheal wrote:

THIS

Worst designed webpage EVAR.

Seriously.

admiralofthefleet · 25-02-2007 12:45AM

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 · 25-02-2007 01:33AM

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 · 25-02-2007 01:35AM

Not Irish at all at all

Isn't nationality itself an imaginary supernatural being?

Kold · 25-02-2007 01:36AM

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 · 25-02-2007 01:38AM

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 · 25-02-2007 01:40AM

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 · 25-02-2007 01:45AM

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

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

imeddyhobbs · 25-02-2007 01:48AM

Guarantee ya one thing lad,im quare irish

snickerpuss · 25-02-2007 01:49AM

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 · 25-02-2007 01:54AM

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

coyote6 · 25-02-2007 02:00AM

Not Irish at all at all

A disturbing blend of Irish, Scottish, Huegenot and Sioux. Where's the whisky?

simu · 25-02-2007 02:26AM

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Mostly Gaelic names and some Norman as far as I know.

Thrill · 25-02-2007 03:31AM

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

Guaranteed Irish. 100%. Back as far as the Normans, who used to live four doors up from my grandparents.

Terry · 25-02-2007 11:44AM

arbeitsscheuer wrote:

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"

Come back to Leixlip to claim the castle?

Kazooie · 25-02-2007 03:36PM

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

100%.
Sure didn't my great great great great Grandfather help St. Patrick banish the snakes all those years ago. Probably.:rolleyes:

InFront · 25-02-2007 03:45PM

Not Irish at all at all

arbeitsscheuer wrote:

May be related to Richard de Clare (Strongbow)

Doesn't that mean that you're related to Bush?
:eek:

Mrs. MacGyver · 25-02-2007 03:53PM

50% one Parent

Had a Welsh Granny so i can legitimately support Wales in the Rugby if Ireland are doing badly (which they are not at the moment!)

Bob the Builder · 25-02-2007 03:57PM

75% one Irish Parent & one grandparent

200% irish. All ancestors were Irish as far back as I have ever heard of, located all in mayo.

I'm catholic, but i dont feel catholic. I'm irish andI feel I have the culture in me, that was beaten into me(not physically

) by my dad/granny who used to tell me stories of Ireland many a year ago, with a total biased view for ireland...and a hatred of the Catholic Church's teachings, wealth, etc. and a strong hatred of Margaret Thatcher

...biased like "if there was a shower of ##### worse than those black and tans, it would have to be that shower at the Vatican"

WhiteWashMan · 25-02-2007 04:05PM

coolsmileygirl wrote:

1000%

must resist joke..........

cant..........

yeah, but how many nationalities have you got in you?

wacca wacca wacca

bill_ashmount · 25-02-2007 04:45PM

thrill wrote:

Guaranteed Irish. 100%. Back as far as the Normans, who used to live four doors up from my grandparents.

lol

The question is "How Irish are you?

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