So what part of Ireland is your family from or are you a wannabe Irish

[JohnKleeb]

Galway here.

[Guy Fawkes]

1. My father's side...

they came together and left the provos back in the 1890s after some bloody anti-catholic demonstrations (killed one or two of them)

[JohnKleeb]

2. ahh I see

don't know when my family came over but I think it was around the famine. I don't know, and sadly since my nana's only brother was a priest, no one is carrying on our irish last name, Keown, so Ive decided if I ever have kids to put Keown in one of the names, same thing with Beltz and Kovalcik, the other names in my family.

[Guy Fawkes]

4. If I ever change my name....

I'll change it back to McCarthy. They changed it when they moved to the US (out of fear)

[JohnKleeb]

5. Damn anti Irish folk

McCarthy is a good ole Irish name, unfortunely a certain red baiter had it too.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. My husband was born and raised in Co. Down,

Dad's family was from Donegal and Mom's were from Wexford.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Mayo....

The Wild West.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. I'm not exactly sure but...

Judging by the surnames from my mother's side of the family, it appears that many could have come from Cavan

[Longgrain]

8. I'm Irish through my grandmother...

Family name was Moorse...they always said County Cook but recently one of my aunts did some genealogy and found out this wasn't true...I don't remember tho where she said my Irish ancestors were from...

[Maeve]

9. The Conways probably came from Sligo or Mayo

But I think I wnat to live in Clare near the Burren, or in Kerry near Killarney. Hubby and I fell so much in love with the west in 2003 we are considering moving there when our youngest hits 21.

[Donkeyboy75]

26. Kenmare is nice, too.

But you can't go wrong anywhere in the South or West of Ireland. I live in Cork city myself.

[CBHagman]

10. Researching that now.

I've hit a bit of a brick wall in that regard. I have good reason to believe my great-great-grandfather came from County Mayo, but none of his records indicate that, only that he was Irish. It seems his sister was born in Ballycastle, County Mayo (Yes, there's more than one Ballycastle), but the origins of that claim are a little murky.

Anyway, on one branch of the family, it's possible everyone came from the West, given the names (Duggan, Devitt). On another branch, I suspect everyone is from the North (Beckett, McCloskey). There are also rumors of -- horrors! -- English roots with that crowd.

[DaveinMD]

11. I married a woman of Irish heritage

but I'm the Irish history buff.

[two gun sid]

12. My father's family came here from Limerick

in 1635.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. The Hagans (O'Hagans) come from County Tyrone in N. Ireland

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

19. That might be, but there are plenty of us in Co. Down. n/t

[mrgorth]

33. Up Tyrone!

My people are also from Tyrone.

[HEyHEY]

13. Belfast

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. My great-great grandfather...

(my mother's father's mother's father) was from County Cork...the family name was Dillon.

Edit: I've other Irish ancestors who were in America in the 1600's, but I only know they were from Ireland, not WHERE in Ireland.

[DemBones DemBones]

16. Great-grandmother Mary was born in County Down,

Great-grandmother Annie, in fair Dublin town.


But I don't know any more right now, still searching for clues, like names of their parents. Since my family were Protestant, they may well have been Scots-Irish, but isn't that better than no Irish at all? ;-)



Mary went to New Zealand, married an English barrister who was also a Master of the Hounds, and lived in London.

Annie came to America, married a man from Massachusetts who worked for Draper Industries, selling looms and parts to cotton mills. They moved to Atlanta, Georgia, before 1900 and lived the rest of their lives there.

[JohnKleeb]

17. I dunno what has more value

a non Irish Catholic or a Scots-Irish Protestant, but I think we'll have to let that up to someone who is all Irish.

[DemBones DemBones]

22. How about a Scots-Irish Catholic, as I may be?

;-) I'm hoping some of my family turns out to be real Irish.

[JohnKleeb]

23. well you converted

and that gets you props. Though so did Bork but he only did it so he could join Opus Dei.

[DemBones DemBones]

21. I should have said the family names are Canfield & McClean,

possibly Muckle, too.

[TheMightyFavog]

18. My Mothers Side...

County Cork.

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Limerick and Mayo

Family all the way back to 15th C. buried in Abbeyfeale Parish.
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Abbeyfeale.htm

[greatauntoftriplets]

24. My brother-in-law's grandparents came from Abbeyfeale....

and I have been there on his behalf.

[mcscajun]

25. My father's people come from County Cavan…

but a few generations back.

[Bonhomme Richard]

27. My mothers side was Dublin, more specifically.........

Blackrock. Unfortunately I don't have any information on my fathers side as my mothers family was very dominant. I guess the first of my mothers side to arrive was aa award winning horticulturist working on an estate in Ireland and he was hired by the Schlitz beer heir to oversee his gardens here in the Philadelphia area.

[Wat_Tyler]

28. Two Irish-born grandmothers. One from Dublin, the other from Belfast.

[Pooka Fey]

29. Scottish Borderlands. Can I play?

Oh yeah --- And I'm Catholic/Celtic Pagan.

[Maeve]

30. Well, at least part of Scotland was settled by the Irish

And then the English helped send 'em the other way...

Okay, I've got to ask...if you are going to claim both Catholic and pagan, does that mean you get to save your own soul?? :silly:
(the nuns used to take up collections to "save pagan babies" in the old days)

(And I expect the answer to be "Yup!") :P

[Pooka Fey]

31. Hee Hee Hee.

I read that in the REALLY old days - like around the 4-10th (?) c. A.D. - the early Celts/Britons didn't feel that they had to renounce their pagan practices to be Christians, they just blended in the Catholic rituals. I'm doing it the other way 'round. I'm pretty conditioned to think of 'pagan' in a pejorative way, I usually tell people I practice 'earth-based' spirituality which gets pretty long-winded. And YUP I get to save my own soul!!! :P

I don't know if the Border Scots are Irish, but I know we're Celts, and I know we spent centuries fighting the English (and other Scots). There was too much war to make a go of farming in the Borderlands, so the Border Scots practiced "reaving". Thats forming a raiding party to go and steal everything your neighbors' owned. Hence, another reason for needing your clan. Whoops - looks like I'm stealing Irish thunder talking about Scots! Well, you all stole our kilts to wear in your St. Patrick's Day Parades. :silly: (ducking under table)

[Wat_Tyler]

42. The word 'Scot' means 'raider from Ireland' after all.

The Scots are about 50% Celtic-Irish, 25% Scandinavian, 25% Dutch/Flemish.

[Scurrilous]

32. Maternal grandparents both Irish-born.

From County Waterford. :thumbsup:

[Historic NY]

34. my mothers family....has been here since about 1825 & post Civil War

So far I've found them in County Cork...O'Shaughnessy's (OSeachnasaigh). I haven't gotten to the old sod yet but will one day soon.

[Donailin]

35. Donegal

O'Friel changed to Freel when my great Granparents arrived at Ellis. They settled in Lynbrook, NY

[dbt]

36. Descended from Wheelers in Clare on my mother's side.

At least that's what we've been able to figure out so far. The whole thing is complicated by my Grandmother's parents dying on the way over here.

And I'm with Maeve about wanting desperately to go back to the West Country. Galway Girls are the End Of The World!

:headbang:
dbt

[Mr. McD]

37. Arklow, County Wicklow came to America in 1691.

I am desended from Clan Iain Mor of Dunnyveg and the Glens of Antrim. My ancestors spent 11 generation in Ireland, many served as galloglasses (mercenaries). :toast:

[tigereye]

38. my grandfather on my mom's side was from Cork

not sure where my dad's people were from.

[Padraig18]

39. Athlone, Co. Westmeath.

:)

[Kire]

40. I'm at least a 10th generation Irish-American.

Plus Swedish, Norwegian, French, Dutch, and, apparently, English, too.

My great (x 8 or 9) grand-father, was the first Sheriff of New Jersey, in the 1600's. Or so they say.

I have no idea where my family was from in Ireland.

[Lefty48197]

41. Sligo and Limerick

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[Anarcho-Socialist]

43. Galway and Belfast n/t

[Merope215]

44. Belfast and Galway

And Tom Clarke is my grandfather's cousin. So I'm a wannabe, but I think I have some street cred? :shrug:

[Stop_the_War]

45. Not sure what part of Ireland but I am not a wannabe Irish lol

[dflprincess]

46. Sligo, Mayo and Dublin

on my mother's side. Kilkenny and Armagh on my dad's.

[MaineDem]

47. Galway...Spiddal and Inverin and Carna

All 4 grandparents were from there.

Slainte!

[catchnrelease]

48. Wish I could say......

I've constantly run into roadblocks trying to find where my Irish ancestors emigrated from originally, but do know that these gr-greatgrandparents did come from there.....Cooley's, O'Neil's and O'Dowers. It's soooo frustrating!!!!!

[Journeyman]

49. Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon . . .

[obreaslan]

50. I'm an Ulster Man here....

The Breslins came from Donegal and the O'Hagans came from Derry. :toast:

[CountAllVotes]

51. its a long long way to Tipperary ....

Tipperary is my home!

:kick: