IRISH HERITAGE

Sorry, Boss, no such place as County Milford:




Personally, i'm of Polish descent, you know, Kelly, Dalton, Donovan, Antrim, Clare, etc., etc. . . .

Whoops, back to the genealogical info when I get home tonight...but it definitely started with an M, and it wasn't Mayo, but Meath and Monaghan don't look right either. Any chance that the counties have changed since the early 19th century?

Me mam's from Down and me dad's from Wicklow.
That make me 100% canadian irish.
Ceili

Naw, but maybe the town was Milford, Boss . . .

Oho, and when did my dad's ancestors come to N America? Even that we don't really know.

I'm 75% Irish. My dad's family was Irish but I don't know what part they hailed from. My mom's dad's family came from County Cork.

I found two "townlands" listings for the name Milford, one in Leinster (the County was identified as "Queen's County," so the listing has probably not been edited since 1922), and the other in Muster, County Tipperary.

Here's a good resource:

Irish Geneology Links[/b][/color]

Lot's of links, arranged by county, so although the information is not at that site, the link to someplace to get the info you want likely is.

Well, my Irish relatives are Dubliners, one a champion bridge player:

http://indigo.ie/~irebridg/inter_0102.html

My preference for heritage would be Offaly though, for the pun value.

Oops, it's A. Mesbur, btw, my cousin.

I'm 100% Irish, born and bred. My parents, grandparents and as far back as I can trace are all Irish.

Let me ask a question (that I'll prolly get bashed for) but when you say "I'm XX% Irish", I presume you are talking about your parentage, and not that you yourself were born in Ireland?
While I understand many people calling themselves Irish since they have it in their geneology, are you really Irish at all if you weren't born there?

Aren't you American if you are born in the U.S.?
Now if I had children, I would say they are American, right? Me living here in America. If they are born here and I raise them right here that is. They would have Irish ancestry alright but they themselves would not be Irish.

Irish ancestry is best if it's St Patties Day and you wanna drink green beer.
Heeven understood - ancestry is green, but me be an American - Irishman.

I suppose the correct expression for me would be that I'm half Irish-American. All 8 of my father's great-grandparents were born in Ireland. All 4 of his grandparents were born in America.

It seems to me that people in this country seem to go one way or the other. Either they are American and are uninterested in their heritage, or they completely identify with where their ancestors have come from and want to know all they can about it and refer to themselves as Irish-American, Polish-American, etc.

My family name is Murphy - the most common name in all Ireland! But my family have been here for a good while now (probably since potato famine time!)

Me - I'm Australian - but I do have the Irish looks and colour (sorta!)

It's one of those strange things about America in that no-one ever claims to be American when asked about geneology - it's always about what other country(ies) their ancestry is.

Like if I had moved to France from Ireland and had children there - I would expect that my children be called French and not Irish. Know what I mean?

Me da's family hails from Carlow, and me ma's from Wicklow, so's we gots trouble both with gas and with lighting candles.

Ok Heeven, prepare for your bashing. I understood the question to be are you of Irish heritage not are you Irish. Of course I'm an American, because I was born hear. But my great grandparents were born in Ireland. I'm sure I still have family there.

I'm very proud of my Irish roots. So sue me.

Heeven, trust me, nobody wants French kids.