Fizzzzle Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Now that we're at White Pride St. Patrick's Day (I'm mostly kidding, don't get your panties in a bunch), I'm curious to know how many celebrate their 'good ol Oirish' ancestry. I feel like most white Americans have at least some, unless your parents or grandparents were all immigrants. I have one Irish ancestor that I know of. He came over in 1750 or so. He's like my 6th great grandfather or something, which would make me 1.5625% Irish, if I'm doing my math correctly. Could be higher, my dad never knew who his father was, but judging by my dad's skin color I'm guessing he wasn't Irish. At any rate, I do think Americans claiming to be "Irish" or "Italian" or "French" or whatever is dumb. You're a white American, deal with it. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't get drunk on St. Patrick's Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 My family has a lot of Celtic blood, but I don’t know that we celebrate St Pattys Day beyond the usual corned beef, cabbage, and potato deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Absolutely 0% however I will be celebrating your Mick-ass holiday as an excuse to get drunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 1 minute ago, Bloodporne said: Absolutely 0% however I will be celebrating your Mick-ass holiday as an excuse to get drunk. Nothing wrong with that. Just do it even more responsibly this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Irish moms side British and French fathers side so naturally I was raised catholic and identify as Irish plus I’m a dirty ging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Sadly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Yes. My mother's maiden name starts with Mc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Nope, but I have a cousin who married an Irish woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Dad and his parents are English. My mum and Nan is Manx, but my mums dad was originally from Ireland. Based on that and history, I should hate myself in a number of ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 8 minutes ago, Rachel said: Nope not according to my 23andme test (and before someone says it’s an estimate, I have my parents on it too so my estimates got updated to the accurate measurements through dna “phasing”). I wonder how accurate that can really be, considering the amount of intermingling and emigration between Britain and Ireland over the last millennium. I know on my 23andme I have like 25% or something that just says "broadly northwestern European." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Not that I'm aware of. I think most of mine is English and Scottish. The McEntire branch came from Scotland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 Just now, Rachel said: When you have a parent signed up it’s accurate. My ancestry results changed quite a bit after my dad first joined. Security check CUSTOMERCARE.23ANDME.COM My dad has it, too. He did it before I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Yeah, that would be my fathers side and the second biggest percentage of myself after German (the country, not the journalist). I will be getting corn beef/potatoes/cabbage tomorrow and I’m kinda excited though I need to check my horseradish supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, stepee said: Yeah, that would be my fathers side and the second biggest percentage of myself after German (the country, not the journalist). I will be getting corn beef/potatoes/cabbage tomorrow and I’m kinda excited though I need to check my horseradish supply. Glad you cleared that up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 I'm Irish/German. My middle name is Patrick. I'm not going to do anything except my regular boring routine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 My grandfather was born in Ireland and immigrated here. He was the middle child in a farming family. The farm went to his oldest brother and he didn’t want to work for him so he left. He might have dabbled with the IRA too. We don’t celebrate the holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I think maybe a little. I dunno, i haven't done a family tree thing since elementary school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 My white ancestors are Scottish and Irish, luckily no English, that would have been terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 7 hours ago, Rachel said: Lmao I’m dumb I just checked my results again. 36% “British & Irish” oops. It's crazy how much more specific it is now. The 25% broadly northwestern european is now 6%, the rest is narrowed down. They can even narrow it down to certain areas of some countries. "British and Irish" is still just british and Irish though lol. For me it's 66% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyle5150 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Irish af tbh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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