As St Patrick's Day is coming up........

No Irish connections that I know of, but people think I might be when I color my hair red - it looks pretty natural DH has Irish in him - his grandfather was Irish and Scandanavian.

We'll be at a cat show that weekend and I have some shamrocks to put on Charlie's cage for a little decoration - reminds me to change the show towel in the cage to green for the weekend

I don't have any Irish blood. But my uncle had a child roughly 17 years ago with his Irish g/f at the time, so i have an aunt and first cousin in Co Cork.

My father traced his side of our family all the way back to ninth-century Ireland and a "King of Kings" called Niall of the Nine Hostages (a reference to his having used hostages as leverage in conflict). He lived in County Mayo, and when his descendants left there in the 1600s, they went to Scotland for a couple of centuries. They intermarried and became Scots-Irish, finally migrating to America around 1840. From Virginia, they moved inland to the hills of Kentucky, and there they mostly remain.

I noticed there are some others here who, like me, are both Irish and Native American! It's just a tiny touch and 'way back, but I'm so proud to have great-great-great-etc. Cherokee uncles named Rattling Gourd and Corntassel!

There's a very sweet story about the kinship between the Irish and the Native Americans. You'll recall that many of the latter perished on the Trail of Tears, a shameful government-forced march of five tribes to confinement on reservation land. Well... that tragedy was still fresh in the minds of a group of Choctaws when they heard of the terrible famine in Ireland in 1847. They knew what it meant to suffer such privation, and they were moved to try to help.

Despite having recently lost everything -- their land, their horses, their freedom -- these good people set about raising money to help feed victims of the Irish famine. In the end, they sent $710 to Ireland for the cause... an act of great humanity from people who had been treated as subhuman.

So... Irish green, Scottish blue, "Indian" red... I'm so proud to be all of 'em!

My husband's mom is from Ireland. We are going to visit his relatives this summer. My parents are both from Germany... but won't get into that.

I am part Irish Don't know the exact amount.

My mom's father was Irish/ Cherokee and my mom's mother is Irish/Danish- so i have a good bit of Irish blood in me

I'm half Irish. From tracing back, my relatives came from Co. Cork, and Co. Donegal.

I loved Ireland when I visited there. I'd love to return someday!

Im half irish on my mothers side. My mum was born and raised in southern ireland in tippary. And my great grandmother on my mothers side. Was a true irish romany gypsy.

Originally Posted by clixpix

I'm half Irish. From tracing back, my relatives came from Co. Cork, and Co. Donegal.

I loved Ireland when I visited there. I'd love to return someday!

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Oh, whereabouts in Donegal do you know? That is where I'm from!

My son's step-mum is Irish - a Dubliner, no less.

Originally Posted by Catnip

Oh, whereabouts in Donegal do you know? That is where I'm from!

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I'm afraid that may be the sum total of what I know. I do know that my ancestors from there had the last name of McGrory, which actually sounds more Scottish than Irish to me, but what do I know? I'm afraid I didn't get to Donegal when I visited. I hear it's beautiful, though!

I am Irish on my dad's side of the family.

My grandmother's maiden name is Murphy.

Giltrap and Hutchinson here from my father's side. They came over in the early 1800s. Not sure where they were from in Ireland. I have stories of them once they were here but nothing on where they lived in Ireland. If anyone has any Giltrap relatives, we're related!

Black Irish here!

I plan on spending this feast day honoring my Grandmother and Grandfather who passed. I'm going to make her soda bread, and raising a glass to them.

No Irish here, but I am accused of being Irish on St Patty's day because of my red hair. I have named some of the red haired ferals Irish names: Angus, Patrick, Sean.

I'll celebrate St. Patty's day by making a big pot of corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes on the side. DH will drink himself a couple of pints of Guinness.

I'm half Irish on my mother's side. Plus, I've visited Ireland twice (I've even been to Donegal) and loved every minute of it. I also like to drink Guinness.

I have alot of Irish in my background, and it's kind of complicated. This is all of my mother's side, my dad's side is all German, Russian, and Polish.

Before one of the early famines (probably around 1810 or so) part of the family came over and settled in Merrickville (they were the first settlers in that area), Richmond, and a few other places in Ontario. The people in Richmond owned an inn where the Duke of Richmond died from a septic fox bite.

My grandmother's family came from Ireland. And my Great Grandfather remembered his grandmother singing in Gaelic.

When we went to Ireland in 2001 we actually found the grave of one of my multiple great grandmother's. It's very hard to find a grave in Ireland because of the famine. But she died before everyone else.

This is only a little bit of family history, we literally have dozens of binders with trees and pictures and letters. I could go on but I won't. I love geneaolgy

Don`t know much of my family history but I do know my mothers maiden name was McCarthy and her parents (dad was called Patrick-can`t get more Irish than that! ) came to Kent during the potato famine or something like that.