Justify your "Irish" roots.

[Martin]

I have a couple of red hairs in my beard.

Does that count?

I think that means you're Scottish. But that's a good start.

 

[wandering peacefully]

Being Irish is a wonderful thing, but we have to deal with a lot of people claiming to be Irish with little real evidence. For example, some people think that being able to quote lines from "Father Ted" gets you an Irish passport. It's a little bit more feckin complicated than that, Mrs Doyle.
Or: "My great grandmother might have been in steerage on the Titanic, at least going by the filum."

So if you claim Irish roots, where's your evidence?

Daft answers only, please.

My favorite dark beer is Guiness?

 

[Martin]

Congratulations! According to Yankistani Oirish rules that makes you eligible to claim status as a full blooded Irishman no less Oirish than any man born on the Emerald Isle. As a result you are entitled to greet everyone you meet by saying "top o' the mornin' to ye", operate floats in the St Patrick's day parade, complain about how Guinness doesn't taste the same here as it does 'back home' (even though you've never been to Ireland), drink in Irish bars while complaining about how the English have oppressed 'my people', donate money to the IRA, go on about how you are really into 'real Irish rebel music' which means you own one CD by the Wolfe Tones and insist the the Irish "built America".

Yeah, a bunch of fakes. They've never been through an actual potato famine. Sheer luxury!

 

[Martin]

My favorite dark beer is Guiness?

Yes, that will do. Cynics might say that the Irish government is trying to encourage an expansion of Irish citizenship in order to tip the balance in Northern Ireland.
Ahem...that's just daft!

 

[Mock Turtle]

Well I bet I have gone into Irish roots more than the rest of you - having been caving there on several occasions - can't go deeper than that!

I've also spent a few weeks on holiday there, where I got a liking for Guinness, and have also sailed across to both north and south - so at least put some effort in to get there. Plus I have several old LPs of Irish Music, a few even bought there, and I have witnessed Irish musicians in a local pub - some rather good. I'm sure all that counts as being truly Irish.

So there!

PS And since a 19-year-old Irish girl stole my virginity, I might have Irish germs in me even if not Irish genes.

 

[Nakosis]

But can you quote "Father Ted"?

"I'm not a racist"

 

[wandering peacefully]

Yes, that will do. Cynics might say that the Irish government is trying to encourage an expansion of Irish citizenship in order to tip the balance in Northern Ireland.
Ahem...that's just daft!

I thought this was supposed to be not a serious thread. My DNA says a big chunk of my genes come from Northern Ireland, Other than that, I confess to not following Irish politics very closely. Until they all start fighting amongst themselves, again.

 

[Left Coast]

Being Irish is a wonderful thing, but we have to deal with a lot of people claiming to be Irish with little real evidence. For example, some people think that being able to quote lines from "Father Ted" gets you an Irish passport. It's a little bit more feckin complicated than that, Mrs Doyle.
Or: "My great grandmother might have been in steerage on the Titanic, at least going by the filum."

So if you claim Irish roots, where's your evidence?

Daft answers only, please.

My mother's maiden name starts with "Mc."

 

[Martin]

I thought this was supposed to be not a serious thread. My DNA says a big chunk of my genes come from Northern Ireland, Other than that, I confess to not following Irish politics very closely. Until they all start fighting amongst themselves, again.

Sorry about that. We try to make light of it, but it's always there.
Anyway, can you quote "Father Ted"?
"It's an ecunemical matter" might work here.

 

[Martin]

My mother's maiden name starts with "Mc."

That sounds rather Scottish. Do you like Haggis, and tossing the caber?
Do you know the difference between Scottish and Irish pipes, wailing and screeching?

 

[Estro Felino]

In the city of my university there were something like 10 Irish pubs. All in the same area.
It really looked like Dublin

I recall my flatmate saying "let's go to the Irish pub"
And me: which one????

 

[Left Coast]

That sounds rather Scottish. Do you like Haggis?

 

[ImmortalFlame]

I absolutely love calling people "a knacker".

I had an Irish girlfriend for a while.

 

[Left Coast]

On a more serious note, this is what 23andMe tells me:

 

[Martin]

I absolutely love calling people "a knacker".

I had an Irish girlfriend for a while.

Did your girlfriend know any Father Ted quotes?

 

[RestlessSoul]

Liking a good stout guarantees admission. Maybe a new life in Eire beckons?

I drank enough Guinness back in the day, to fill Dublin Bay.

Would almost certainly have qualified to play football for Ireland, back when Jackie Charlton was manager. Except I wasn't very good.

Played The Pogues album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash that many times the needle wore the record out.

My mum's from Camden Town, which was practically in Ireland in those days; and my grandad used to drink in the Dublin Castle on Camden Parkway.

Edit; come to think of it, during my misspent youth, there were probably more Irish pubs in North London than there were in Dublin, and I got drunk in pretty much all of em.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have to justify this? Do you have any idea how stubborn I am? I didn't get it from those Angle-Saxes.

 

[Left Coast]

Do we have any actual Irish citizens on RF?

 

[Martin]

Do we have any actual Irish citizens on RF?

I have dual nationality. I'm an Irish citizen, but have the misfortune to live in the post-Brexit wasteland that is England.

 

[Left Coast]

I have dual nationality. I'm an Irish citizen, but have the misfortune to live in the post-Brexit wasteland that is England.

Any desire to move to Ireland?