Are you IRISH?

[XemaSab]

Poll question: Are you IRISH?

:shrug:

[rug]

1. 7/8

[MrCoffee]

2. Not even a little bit.

[BeachBaby]

7. +1.

[charlie and algernon]

3. about 1/8 Irish

[ceile]

4. 1/4 n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. A smidge, and even though my g-grandfather was protestant I wear

green anyway. ;)

[geardaddy]

6. Prolly about 1/8

[Incitatus]

8. Irish, German, and British nt

[TK421]

9. same here n/t

[geardaddy]

10. Which "British" do you mean?

English? Welsh? Scottish? Cornish?

[Incitatus]

15. Scottish, IIRC.

[Critters2]

19. Scots are not Brits. nt

[Incitatus]

30. I am not really familiar with my family history,

but I know I was told German, Irish and British. Scottish also sounds familiar. Perhaps it was British of Scottish descent. idk

[tjwmason]

60. Scots are British.

The island of Great Britain (great as compared with Britanny in France) consists of England, Scotland, and Wales.

[Gormy Cuss]

11. No, but some of my ancestors were.

:P

[Critters2]

20. Exactly so. nt

[enigmatic]

12. Half n/t

[baldguy]

13. Everyone is Irish on St Patrick's Day

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Nope, not that I know.

Unless Richard I. was some Irish, then I'm 1/100'000'000'000 or so ...

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Thank God, no.

[begin_within]

17. 3/8

My Mom's maiden name is Mullaly.

[Critters2]

18. I actually have Irish ancestry,

but I'm embarrassed by it today.

[WildEyedLiberal]

21. You let what other people say online affect how you feel about your heritage?

That's extremely sad.

FTR, I have quite a bit of Scottish ancestry, too, of which I am also proud. The Orangemen unionists have nothing to do with the Scots - they are pro-British imperial oppression.

[Critters2]

22. I don't want to be associated with some of the hate

I've seen expressed today. I'd rather be an advocate of peace than to be Irish, if I were to have to choose.

[WildEyedLiberal]

29. I don't think anyone is hating on Scots or anything like that

There is a lot of anger and resentment about the Orangemen, which I share. Asking someone of Irish background not to resent the Orangemen is like asking black people to not be angry at the KKK. But like I said, the Orangemen != Scottish people. They are just rabid loyalist oppressors.

I think the vast majority of people want peace, but I don't think there will be peace until Ireland is one unified nation again, because without justice, there can be no peace, and colonial partitioning of a land can never be just. There is a place in Ireland for Catholics and Protestants (and pagans, and atheists, and etc) alike, but I don't think there is a place for British imperialism. That is what the anger is about.

[Critters2]

28. The Ulster Scots were victims of British oppression.

I will not be ashamed of either side of my heritage.

[Individualist]

23. Irish, Cherokee Indian, German,

and a few other nationalities. How's that for a combination? :)

[Arugula Latte]

24. I've got some in the ol' mutt bloodlines.

[Reverend_Smitty]

25. Half on my mother's side...

I'm Slovak on my dad's side, but my first name celebrates my Irish heritage

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Yup, I am. Not a whole lot, but I still claim it!

My dad's mom was Irish: O'Sullivan.

[Lucian]

27. If I do have any Irish in me, it's so tiny it's next to nothing.

I have more Chippewa (Ojibwe) in me than I do Irish. My great-grandmother was full-blooded Chippewa. :)

I do have Irish (Celtic) tattoos. Does that count? :shrug:

[Sky Masterson]

31. 50% Mick

:) God bless my late mother Eleanore Fagan.

[RebelOne]

32. Almost 100% with a bit of English and Scottish. n/t

[steaa]

33. Northern..

;)

Born and lived here all my life.

[XemaSab]

34. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[AwakeAtLast]

38. Thread winner!

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

35. Aye.

:D

[Fleshdancer]

36. 50%

I think that makes me Irishish. :D

[SoxFan]

37. Nuthin' but

Grandparents were from Cork City, Middleton, the Beara peninsula in West Cork, and Roscommon.

[Missy Vixen]

39. At least half

Both maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland.

I'm also the only Irish person that really doesn't care for corned beef and cabbage. :rofl:

[CreekDog]

40. yes

and i will be tomorrow also. :think:

[DemBones DemBones]

41. That should read "Feck yes, I'm Irish."

:beer:

[Pacifist Patriot]

42. Not according to my passport, but my genes have a few things to say about it.

Well, a few of them anyway.

[Shell Beau]

43. My grandmother is 100% (mom's mom). There

is also some Irish blood on my dad's side, just not as much!!

[Shell Beau]

44. dupe

[Shell Beau]

45. dupe

[Drunken Irishman]

46. Well I'm not Irish in the Irihs sense...

My mom's mom was 100% Irish, her dad was 50% Irish, while my dad's dad was 100% Irish and his mom, well I think she was Italian and Irish, as she grew up in an Irish neighborhood in Chicago. Her last name was Moretti, which is Italian, but her mother was an O'Shay.

So that makes me pretty Irish-American. ;)

[Drunken Irishman]

47. I'm already slurring my words...I'm drunk.

[Lost in CT]

48. 100 % pure baby... no other German or Italian blood polluting these veins...

I pee green baby.... I might have to see a doctor about that now I think about it.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

49. Irish, Scottish, Portuguese, Italian

All so watered down they're not much worth mentioning.

[CreekDog]

50. maybe

:think:

[EastTennesseeDem]

51. A long, but an important way back

My father's side made their way to the states during the potato famine and ended up in Southwest Georgia. They fought for the Confederate Army and have stayed in this part of the country until even now.

[MedleyMisty]

52. I had Irish ancestors - they came in the 1700s

and were among the "First Families of Tennessee".

They had a really cool coat of arms.

Hmm - I looked it up and apparently the people who came over in the 1700s were fairly well off. Plus, the coat of arms. And I think at the family reunion I saw documents showing that some had been in Congress.

Okay, who pissed away the family fortune and forced me to work for a living?

OMG, I just combined my mother's maiden name with the Irish name and the fifth search result was my grandmother's obituary.

Overall I'm mostly Irish and English with a hint of Native American - my maternal grandfather had Sioux ancestors and my mother recently said that the genealogy people in the family had also found Cherokee ancestors.

[CJCRANE]

53. One quarter of me is.

That'll be my drinking arm.

:beer:

[applegrove]

54. I'm 1/8 irish. Foran/Forin was the name.

[Starry Messenger]

55. Almost all Irish on mom's side.

Scots and euromutt on my dad's side.

[Xipe Totec]

56. For a pint of Guiness, I can be whatever

:beer:

[FarLeftRage]

57. 1/8...

Mixed in with the other 7/8's makes me a well balanced American...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

58. Nope.

English on Dad's side.

Drunken Scotsmen and Scotswomen on Mom's side. Presbyterians.

[sakabatou]

59. No, I'm Eastern Europe/Russian

[bigwillq]

61. No.

Italians are better! :P ;) :)