Swellinfo Made me more Irish

We've traced both the English (father) and Irish (mother) back to when they came over in the early 1700s. English side settled in James river valley and Irish into PA. Eventually both groups migrated to the piedmont of NC and got busy...

My wife is mainly German and Scotch. She gets angry if we're not on time. I'm on Irish time. It's a running battle.

I'll see if she wants some Irish in her tonight.

 

Yeah. Supposedly the source of our tempers and stubbornness too.

My great-granddad, who was that one's grandson ended up marrying this one's granddaughter.



James Quinlan



My uncle is Michael James Quinlan Corcoran. Someone in each of the last 3 gens has gotten saddled with some derivation of
that mouthful. If my daughter had been born a son, child would have been Quinlan James Michael Corcoran O'Gaffer. She dodged a bullet.

My poor sister didn't though. Got stuck with James Michael Quinlan Corcoran, we call her Jamie.

I'm lucky my parents didn't name me Sue

 

u know ur irish when ur last name is a first name lol

 

That's awesome Gaff. I've never seen any pics or anything of my ancestors, might have to go look into that. Being that the vast majority of the troops in The War of Northern Aggression were from NC, VA, and Bama, our ancestors may have squared off at some point.

Never had much interest in it originally but that changed when I was in my 20s. I was living in Seattle at the time and one day got a package from my Dad's uncle and he'd sorted out the family tree on the Engrish side. Then my family came to visit and brought my Grandma along, and out of the blue I asked her. She rattled off names and such for the Irish side all the way back. Said our family name in Ireland was Dubh, pronounced "Duve", and meant "Black" in Irish. It was really cool and fascinating to hear about it, and all these tales preserved via oral history. "Cousin Jim was discharged in Richmond and they gave him a ham for his service, and he walked back to Reidsville from Richmond". Stuff like that.

It just so happened that it was the day before St. Patty's day. And my best bro at the time was Irish, grew up in County Longford and then lived in Galway before he moved to the states. I gave him a call and let him know I'd figured out why I was always hanging out with him at the Connor Byrne pounding Guinness. We had a good St Patty's day that year. He got us thrown out of two bars downtown and it took me and two other people to get him off the hood of another friends car. He had a death grip on the windshield wipers and kept yelling "WE'RE GOING FOOKING DANCING YA FOOKS!".

Good times...

Are for your naming, at least if you'd been named Sue you would have had some Johnny Cash cred...

 

I'm Irish, my last name is really Irish there is even a song about it. I'm Irish on both my mother and fathers side and was raised by an Irish immigrant step dad. When I went to kindergarten for the first time the teachers all said I had an Irish accent, they teased me about it all through grade school. My fathers mother was 100 percent German and my great maternal grand mother was German. I'm the 5th generation grandson of Christian Ankeny a court marshal officer in the continental army during the revolutionary war. I always hoped to find out he was a battle hero but it turns out he was too old to fight, oh well still cool.

 

Ive always had a soft spot for Irish Punk. any of it really. But when this album came out, it changed everything. This song makes me wanna do car bombs and fight everything larger than me

[video=youtube;yq0xGU4iSR0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq0xGU4iSR0[/video]

 

Lords of Dogtown "You got patty slapped"

[video=youtube;jOn9a68SElM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOn9a68SElM[/video]

 

That explains the pigeons.....

 

For tradition sake, had me some corned beef and cabbage.. if you're not used to it, a little rough on the plumbing.

Don't know if a Guiness would've helped..

 

Nothing can explain the pigeons. I do love those little guys though.

 

Whhhaaaaaat? No one posted a house of pain video? Just a bunch of dropkick? I'm disappointed.

[video]https://youtu.be/DgAsrhmUkbM[/video]

[video]https://youtu.be/15qc3_joy5A[/video]

 

My wife came home yesterday and said her green sweater was selling for $40 on ebay. I said wow that's a good haul for a sweater, the magic of St Patrick's Day she said. I said when's St Patrick's Day? She replied, Uhmm today?

 

Ditto

 

Very cool Zippy.

 

^this

Watched "kill the Irishman" for the first time last night. So good.

 

[video=youtube;iu0s3qwFPc0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0s3qwFPc0[/video]

 

ms tard is 2n gen irish american. her dad came here in the 50's from county kerry in ireland. still had a brogue

 

I wish you health, I wish you well, and happiness galore.
I wish you luck for you and friends; what could I wish you more?
May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your troubles as light as its foam.
And may you find, sweet peace of mind, where ever you may roam.

 

Good for you, a proper Irish lass. And she saves squirrells.

Hope you're well amigo. We're gonna have to hook up for a bevy sometime.