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Why Is Ireland The Only Country Obsessed With Ancestry??

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  • #62
    lcrcboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭lcrcboy


    Well OP it seems your very much interested in the whole tracing your roots thing as well:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68063295


    And you also have a lot of threads about "plastic paddies"


  • #63
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    More to do with Irish scam to earn a greasy dollar. At the rate we're going, Ireland has a good claim to become the 53rd State?:(

    What's the 51st and 52nd state?


  • #64
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    Gnobe wrote: »

    He's going on to the UK the day after, I don't see him going on trips to Wiltshere or anywhere looking for his ancestors? So why only here? Is this the only country this goes on? Why is Ireland so obsessed with presidents ancestries?

    I don't think thats' strictly true. A friend of mine is a tour guide at Hampton Court Palace, and she gets hundreds of Americans' telling her that they're direct descendants of various ancient British monarchs (even ones with no direct descendants at all, ffs). Thats' just one person's experience.
    My guess is, the Irish diaspora has resulted in much more widespread network of people with Irish heritage.


  • #65
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    quickbeam wrote: »
    What's the 51st and 52nd state?

    Iraq and Afghanistan :confused: Sorry you missed the point (completely).


  • #66
    ultain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    TaraFoxglove wrote: »
    So silly that he has to go some stupid village when he has such a short amount of time here.
    Dont talk through your arse


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  • #67
    TaraFoxglove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭TaraFoxglove


    ultain wrote: »
    Dont talk through your arse

    Oh wow, that's put me in my place. :rolleyes:

    As expected, the Moneygall trip was dull.


  • #68
    ultain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    TaraFoxglove wrote: »

    As expected, the Moneygall trip was dull.

    Ah yeah..bit of rain, but sun was out as well :):):)

    Great day for Moneygall!! well done all involved


  • #69
    Faolchu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭Faolchu


    OP I’ve no idea why the Irish are obsesses with ancestry, i didn’t think we were tbh. but remember there are only two types of people in the world, the Irish and those that wish they where


  • #70
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    quickbeam wrote: »
    What's the 51st and 52nd state?

    Brillaint, he couldn't get the basics of a groundless cliche right.


  • #71
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Iraq and Afghanistan :confused: Sorry you missed the point (completely).

    There was no point. And stop trying to weasel out fo your lack of geography knowledge (the type that if an American displayed about ireladn you'd laugh at them).


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  • #72
    ultain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    Faolchu wrote: »
    OP I’ve no idea why the Irish are obsesses with ancestry, i didn’t think we were tbh. but remember there are only two types of people in the world, the Irish and those that wish they where
    We keep all the best stuff here :)


  • #73
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    ultain wrote: »
    We keep all the best stuff here :)

    Debt?


  • #74
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Cybercubed wrote: »
    The irony is is that his ancestor was actually a protestant meaning he's not actually ethnically irish at all technically, but yeah whatever. :pac:


    So what you is saying is his ancestor was black


  • #75
    ultain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Debt?
    :rolleyes:


  • #76
    westies4ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭westies4ever


    why so down on moneygall peeps? yes it's a small rural village - doesnt automatically make it a hole????


  • #77
    superelliptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭superelliptic


    Agricola wrote: »
    The mass immigration from Ireland over the years which has led to Irish people being holed up everywhere. We like to claim as many people for our own as possible. All the the better if they happen to be the US President!

    You're right. On another note - imagine what it would be like if all of the people who claim Irish ancestry around the world (US, Oz, UK, etc) came back to the mother land to settle down. We lost 1 million to starvation during the famine, and another million to emmigration during the same period, then about half a million in the '50's. I wonder how big our population would be if all those people's desendents returned home. Would we get another 2 Million people?


  • #78
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    mike65 wrote: »
    I suspect the OP is merely reacting to the fact the British are not interested in this sort of thing, no-one ever got quizzed on Parky or Ross about their ancestors in Macclesfield and how proud the guest is supposed to be to be 1/32, or 1/64 English/Welsh/Scottish

    spot on,

    you won't see the brits making a big deal about Obama's british ancestry (which is closer than his irish one)..you don't see them carting him out to some village in Yorkshire

    so why do we have to make a song & dance about it

    i just find it all...diddley eye tripe that belongs to bye gone age..like every yank president has to have an irish connection to be accepted over here:rolleyes:

    and don't fooling yourself he's not a bit irish...he's african american simple as


  • #79
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    TaraFoxglove wrote: »
    So silly that he has to go some stupid village when he has such a short amount of time here.

    Agree, he should never have been sent to Dublin, such a pox of a place.


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