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Post by swamp on Mar 11, 2013 19:59:14 GMT -5
Who here is of Irish heritage?
I'm 1/2 Irish. Black hair, light green eyes, pale skin.
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chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on Mar 11, 2013 20:01:17 GMT -5
I am! 1/4 Irish here, from Cork by lineage. by your features, I'd guess you're western Irish too...?
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Post by mollyanna58 on Mar 11, 2013 20:02:30 GMT -5
I'm about 1/4 Irish. Red hair, green eyes, fair skin. Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day.
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Post by swamp on Mar 11, 2013 20:02:33 GMT -5
I am! 1/4 Irish here, from Cork by lineage. by your features, I'd guess you're western Irish too...? No idea, lol.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 11, 2013 20:04:27 GMT -5
Irish, maybe 1/4 not really sure.
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chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on Mar 11, 2013 20:10:12 GMT -5
I am! 1/4 Irish here, from Cork by lineage. by your features, I'd guess you're western Irish too...? No idea, lol. western Irish is AKA "Black Irish" because most people are pale skinned, blue-eyed, and black haired. the rest of Ireland is more red/brown haired as well as freckled pale. just a hunch for ya
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Post by Golden Cavalier on Mar 11, 2013 20:12:43 GMT -5
I'm 1/2 Irish. The other half is German. (I come from good beer-drinking stock. ) DH is a full-blooded Corkman, born and raised.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 11, 2013 20:38:47 GMT -5
Aaah, yes, the day that lets me get my Irish on (without standing out from the crowd ) 100% here. Father born in Cork. My mother's family made a wrong turn on their way from Cork to the United States and ended up in Montreal first before some of them wandered down to New England. I grew up in a large Irish clan where half the adults spoke French when they didn't want us kids knowing what they were saying.
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Post by chiver78 on Mar 11, 2013 20:47:44 GMT -5
half the adults in my world spoke French (such as it is - Acadian dialect) when they didn't want us kids to know what they were talking about too. little did they know that one of us had an ear for languages....
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Post by Malarky on Mar 11, 2013 21:21:05 GMT -5
Definitely of the Irish persuasian. My natural color was brown with auburn highlights. My mother was a full on redhead, my father half Scots, half black Irish. Both my kids are gingers. Two different, awesome shades. Not carrot tops.
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Post by Happy prose on Mar 11, 2013 21:29:49 GMT -5
Mom was Irish, dad was English. Every St Patrick's Day, my dad would tell us he was going to City Hall to have his ass painted green. I miss him so much!
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Post by lynnerself on Mar 12, 2013 1:23:52 GMT -5
I'm something like 1/16th. I have relatives that came over in the 1800s, before the potato famine I think. A little reaseach showed tht they worked in new york. One as a Irish maid and one in the steel mills.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Mar 12, 2013 8:02:44 GMT -5
I have a little but probably not much, but I have the drinking part down I am more polish and it shows
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Post by swamp on Mar 12, 2013 8:07:04 GMT -5
Aaah, yes, the day that lets me get my Irish on (without standing out from the crowd ) 100% here. Father born in Cork. My mother's family made a wrong turn on their way from Cork to the United States and ended up in Montreal first before some of them wandered down to New England. I grew up in a large Irish clan where half the adults spoke French when they didn't want us kids knowing what they were saying. My dad's father was French Canadian and his first language was French, his mother was Irish. Dad also grew up with the adults speaking French to keep the kids from knowing what they were saying. It didn't work. Dad could never speak French, but he would get the jist of what they were saying.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 8:13:40 GMT -5
I have no Irish blood, but I do have 3 redheaded sisters, so we are a bunch of poseurs on St. Paddy's Day! ETA: we get our red hair from our great, great, great, great (not sure how many of these we need ) relative "Eric the Red" (not sure if he's uncle or grandpa). Yup, I am from Viking stock.
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Post by cael on Mar 12, 2013 8:13:41 GMT -5
I'm 1/4 Irish too. Dad is 100% Italian and I mostly got that complexion, hazely eyes and (auburn) brown hair. My mom is half Irish and half German, I had a little red-headed spitfire of an Irish grandmother in true Bostonian style I like to listen to Dropkick Murphys and wear my green Irish shamrock shirt and maybe drink a little on St. Patty's
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 8:14:10 GMT -5
I know i am Irish because my wife always yells out O'Archie when we are in bed together.
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Post by Bluerobin on Mar 12, 2013 8:23:09 GMT -5
I am proudly not Irish, especially on that dreadful holiday.
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Post by zibazinski on Mar 12, 2013 8:32:28 GMT -5
My grandmother was full Irish and my grandfather full Scottish. DD has the creamy complexion and when she was dying her hair the Irish setter red color, which I used to call it, she was just gorgeous. But she's blonde again which is natural and pretty on her. My mom and aunts were reds that dyed their hair blonde. Grandparents both reds with freckles and very pale skin. Because my family didn't go out in the sun, they looked years younger than they were. I'm the darkest in the next generation even though my mom and aunts all married brown haired brown eyed men. None of us have brown eyes and only one of us has light brown hair. That strong gene is amazing. Now our kids are finally diluted enough from marrying dark again. DD is blonde but DS has brown eyes and hair. No other blondes in the family now.
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Post by Formerly SK on Mar 12, 2013 9:10:06 GMT -5
I know i am Irish because my wife always yells out O'Archie when we are in bed together. I'm 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Greek. I look basically like a mix of the two (ie mutt).
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 12, 2013 11:25:56 GMT -5
I'm half Irish. Extremely fair skin w/ freckles, blue eyes, & dark hair (or it was before those same nice Irish genes made me start going gray in HS).
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Post by Miss Tequila on Mar 12, 2013 11:32:11 GMT -5
I'm half Irish...very dark hair (not black though, but a very dark brown), blue eyes and pale complexion
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Mar 12, 2013 11:44:38 GMT -5
I'm a quarter bastard Irish. My father was raised by his Irish stepfather because his real father wasn't around and his mom is a basket case. As far as I can tell I have no actual Irish blood at all, but I got an Irish first and middle name in honor of a grandfather I never met who I'm not actually related too.
My family tree on dad's side is... interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 12:23:52 GMT -5
I'm a quarter bastard Irish. My father was raised by his Irish stepfather because his real father wasn't around and his mom is a basket case. As far as I can tell I have no actual Irish blood at all, but I got an Irish first and middle name in honor of a grandfather I never met who I'm not actually related too. My family tree on dad's side is... interesting. Sounds more like a family labyrinth!
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Post by The Captain on Mar 12, 2013 12:44:18 GMT -5
I'm at least 1/4 Irish on me mom's side.
As far as St. Paddy's day - meh - amature hour around here. I tend to stay home simply for that reason.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Mar 12, 2013 12:52:46 GMT -5
Only on dad's side. Mom's is all boring working class German folk. Very practical down to earth lower middle class types.
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Post by kittensaver on Mar 12, 2013 12:55:35 GMT -5
I'm maybe 1/8 Irish on my mother's side - she's Scot-Irish/English/immigrated-to-French-Canada-and-then-dropped-down-into-the-States like a few others on this board. My dad was 100% Italian. Mom has always "felt" her "distaff" side, and we were raised in an Italian heritage that she let prevail in our household. So I don't really know much about her family or that part of my heritage at all . BUT she did used to say that it took her three years of marriage to learn that what was tandamount to a divorce in a proper English family was no more than a friendly Sunday Dinner chat in an Italian one!
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Post by swamp on Mar 12, 2013 12:56:45 GMT -5
Who here is of Irish heritage? I'm 1/2 Irish. Black hair, light green eyes, pale skin. You're a hard one to figure out. From the above and many of your posts you sound like a really lovely person, probably pretty hot and all that. But yesterday you wrote about having hemoroids the size of golfballs and the whole allusion was gone. Milee does the same thing, though thank goodness, not about hemhorids. She says she has ugly feet and hands and stuff like that. You know she has to be beautiful. MM and Later are the only ones here, that I know of, who are unquestionably beautiful. My opinion for what its worth. I have cute toes.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Mar 12, 2013 13:01:01 GMT -5
I am proudly not Irish, especially on that dreadful holiday. I'm a little Irish, but most people are; even my friends who immigrated say the Irish are the world's cockroaches! That said, I effing hate Amateur Day. I drink something Wednesday through Sunday. Why do I need to make a mockery of a feast day?
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Post by Queen of Interesting Nuts on Mar 12, 2013 13:32:05 GMT -5
My paternal grandmother was Irish. Used to go visit family in Wexford all the time and my Irish cousins are coming to FL in Nov and we will have a grand time. Even had an Uncle Paddy, got sprinkled with Holy water from Aunty and Nana Curler (what we nicknamed her) all the time. Nothing better than a good old Irish get together.
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