I've never been Irish

15/16th irish here, the remaining 16th welsh.

So nice to see PDiddie! And thank you for the link to McBeans' blog, I'd lost track of it.

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Irish--but Scots-Irish.

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Sono italiano, ma mi piace scopare le belle donne irlandese.

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ossobuco wrote:

So nice to see PDiddie! And thank you for the link to McBeans' blog, I'd lost track of it.

Hello, lady lamb. We still have fond memories of our visit with you in San Francisco some years ago. You're in that Southwestern town now and no longer NoCal, is that right?

For the life of me I cannot recall what she called herself here; it wasn't McBeans, it was something that started with a 't', it seems.

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mostly Irish, part English, part Scotch, part soda. I claim mostly and Irish heritage even though I trace my family to England as early as the 17th. century, but Quinney is an anglasized version of Conn... one of the largest Irish clans.

My mother and grandmother were born in Scotland.My grandfather was a Newfie but originally from Irish blood I'm told.

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PDiddie -- Holá, amigo! You've been absent from these here threads quite a while. Welcome home.

Walter -- the problem with the visibility of the German-Americans is that you haven't got a cool patron saint like Padruig.

Dys -- Slainté! Only thing that makes me Irish is by injection: I've had that stuff spelled with an 'e' in me belly many a time. (Come to think of it, as I've known a number of colleens, it's by reverse injection as well.)

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My father's side of the family is confusing. I belive that patrilineage is mostly scottish, but there is some mixing there. My father's mother has some german as well as english. I hope we get a tree drawn up in the next few years......

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I am about a quarter Irish. But, I celebrate St. Patrick's day as a day for all Immigrants.

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PD, her username here was Tartarin.

Yep, living in Albuquerque now.

I have fond memories of that SF gathering too, had a wonderful time.

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Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

...My grandfather was a Newfie but originally from Irish blood I'm told.

My grandmother also. In Boston that's called "two-boat Irish".

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Merry Andrew wrote:

PDiddie -- Holá, amigo! You've been absent from these here threads quite a while. Welcome home.

Happy St. Patty's, Andy.

Everyone else: When we visited Boston not too long back we had a nice Irish bar rendezvous with littlek, dagmaraka and others -- George, were you there? -- and later met MA along the Freedom Trail and tried to take a cemetery tour (but it was closed).

These New Englanders are as fine a bunch of people as you would ever hope to meet. That includes dyslexia (who isn't from Boston).

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No, at the last minute I wasn't able to make it.
Hopefully I wouldn't have changed your opinion about us.

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I'll find that out in June.

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Heh-heh-heh!

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0% irish... although i've been told i "look irish".

we live in a quasi-irish neighborhood.
the grocery down the street sells irish chocolates and what-not...

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... and i wear the green every day of the year Mr. Green

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I'm so Scottish, my wizz smells like peat moss....hmmm...maybe I should seek medical help.

Today is one of those days when you can get by with this....without being slapped.

Do you have any Irish in you.

No.

Would you like some.

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PDiddie wrote:

Merry Andrew wrote:
PDiddie -- Holá, amigo! You've been absent from these here threads quite a while. Welcome home.

Happy St. Patty's, Andy.

Everyone else: When we visited Boston not too long back we had a nice Irish bar rendezvous with littlek, dagmaraka and others -- George, were you there? -- and later met MA along the Freedom Trail and tried to take a cemetery tour (but it was closed).

These New Englanders are as fine a bunch of people as you would ever hope to meet. That includes dyslexia (who isn't from Boston).

I thought we met that time in the German restaurant/bar...... either way, it was a damn fine time.

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Li'lK's memory is better some other people's (who shall remain nameless). As I recall y'all had dinner at Jacob Wirth's (or Jakey's as we locals call it) and I wasn't able to make it because it was a Friday night and I had another commitment. Jacob Wirth's has been doing business as a Deutsches Gesellschaft since the 1890s at the same location and I have it on good authority that even during Prohibition you could get real beer there (and probably schnapps as well) if you knew the waiters. (This information, btw, from an old-timer, now deceased, who used to work as a waiter there during Prohibition. By a further way, he happened to be Irish, not German.)

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PDiddie wrote:

I read this on McBeans' blogthis morning:

Quote:
I was told I'm descended, in part, from members of the Orange Order. Not a thread of green worn on St. Patrick's day. Nope. A William of Orange loyalist. Protestant. Northerner.

I can still sing the song, but the lyrics are mostly gone.

Wilhelmus van Oranje
ben ik, van Duitsen bloed,
den vaderland getrouwe
blijf ik tot in den dood.
Een Prinse van Oranje
ben ik, vrij onverveerd,
den Koning van Hispanje
heb ik altijd geeerd.

Take that, you greenies!

Note that the second line says, "I am, of German blood"; and the seventh and eighth line, "the King of Spain / I have always honored".

Kind of just to confuse the issue even more.

(Yes, both of those lines are really in the Dutch national anthem, which the above song is. Kind of relativates things..)

(So come to think of it, you have Northern Irish singing the Dutch national anthem expressing German blood origin and fealty to the Spanish king. Viva la Unidad Europea! Or, err, something.)

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