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[Closed] Approximately, how Irish are you?

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Going by this chart, I think I'm 1/16th Irish.


 
Posted : 23/05/2011 11:49 pm
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100%


 
Posted : 23/05/2011 11:51 pm
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Nowt. 1/32 german tho


 
Posted : 23/05/2011 11:52 pm
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0%. Is that good or bad?


 
Posted : 23/05/2011 11:52 pm
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1/4 (ie I could compete for Ireland I think) - though having a proper Irish surname surely adds a bit to that?


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:05 am
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about 1/16, my kids are 50% as mrs TS has big ginga flowing locks so they go to sleep every night to the sounds of river dance and tales of little fellas at the bottom of the garden?


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:21 am
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Belfast born and bred!


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 1:11 am
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My dad's from Northern Ireland, so I guess I'm 50% Scottish/ 50% Irish as far as parents go.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 1:21 am
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1/16 Irish, 1/16 Swedish, 7/8 English.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 2:56 am
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50% for me.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 3:08 am
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100% by parentage but I was born and brought up in England so I am 100% english too.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 4:08 am
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50% by parentage but 100% cockney by upbringing.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 5:49 am
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50 % Irish, 50 % Welsh 😯


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 6:08 am
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1/8 Irish, 3/8 Welsh, 1/2 very Northern English.
Typical british bastard. I'd have likes some Scots blood, too


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:12 am
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1/8 Scottish, 1/8th Irish, 1/8th Dwarf, 1/16th Welsh, 8/16ths English

I can walk into a bar by myself and still have all the ingredients for a joke.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:20 am
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100% by parentage but I was born and brought up in England so I am 100% english too.

Classic plastic.

100% here too.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:23 am
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My name is Patrick, so at least 30% 🙂


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:25 am
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well, my Gran was born in Stirling, and scotland's basically the same as Ireland.

i reckon i'm probably about 73% irish.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:26 am
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0% by parentage, but went to inner-London catholic schools - so about 50% by upbringing then.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:35 am
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My mothers side of the family came to Staffordshire from Ireland in the mid 19th century to build the railways.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:35 am
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My Wifes from Dublin, so I guess i'm half Irish 🙂


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:42 am
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I'm so Irish I'm thinking of moving to Bristol.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:43 am
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3 Irish grandparents, 1 Scottish so 75% Irish. I've lived in England 90% of my life, which still leaves me 0% English.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:46 am
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1/4 by genes, 100% english culturally.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:48 am
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50% Irish (dad), 50% Welsh (mam).

But I was brought up in Wales so consider myself 100% Welsh.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 7:49 am
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I am not sure, nor do care as long as I have no jock blood!


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:03 am
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Same as ski boy, Dad was Irish, Mam was welsh. Not sure what that makes me though, as I was born and brought up in Yorkshire. Some sort of cross breed, like a Labradoodle. Mmmm Labradoodle 🙂
(edit) same as Adam as well. We should start some sort of association!


 
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100% by parentage but I was born and brought up in England so I am 100% english too.

Classic plastic.


Well put deadlydarcy
brought up in England so I am 100% english too.
pity we can't say the same about all "ethnics"


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:06 am
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50 % Romany Gypsy 50 % gorger - born in England but prefer to be called Romany British.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:09 am
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Well put deadlydarcy

😯

For toys19's benefit - I was just taking the mick 🙂


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:12 am
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only an irishman would call their daughter "Stanley" 😉


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:13 am
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I'm betting that great-great-great grand-daddy "Falmouth" got beaten up at school too.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:16 am
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By the rules of the chart, 100%, born and bred in Coleraine.

Parents, dad Yorkshire, mum Derry.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:20 am
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100%, born in Belfast and lived there for 25 years.

But going back to my grandparents, three Irish, one English.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:24 am
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50% northern irish


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:26 am
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25% Scottish,
Born in England,
Lived in Wales,
100% British,
100% European.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:28 am
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With a name like Fitzpatrick, very I would have thought. Although there are no Irish that I know of in the family. Apparently my grandad was Irish but he died just after the war and nobody knows bugger all about him.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:29 am
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3rd gen, everybody in Liverpool is of relatively recent Irish ancestry, grandparents in my case. I couldn't have a more Irish surname.

Dont consider myself remotely 'English'. Got more in common with people from outer wherever than, say, people from Essex.

Scouse first, then Irish/Scottish/British.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:29 am
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Part man, part machine.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:33 am
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Possibly 50%
My missus is 50% Irish and 50% Yorkshire.....didn't do my homework there did I 😐

AS you can imagine all the trousers in the oldgit household are in my wifes size.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:37 am
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100% Yorkshire 0% Irish

More importantly, 0% Lancashire


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:41 am
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1/2 Welsh, 1/2 Hungarian. You could say I'm Well-Hung.
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But seriously folks... Going by that chart, 7/8th Yorkshire, 1/8th Armenian.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:43 am
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100% earth citizen, bugger all this regionalism 😉

The sooner people put this 'what nationality are you' thing behind them the better, it's the thin (but seemingly acceptable) end of the racist wedge.

And anyone (except perhaps the remotest of indigenous people) who claims to be anything other than 100% mongrel is really quite deluded, it's just not possible......


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:46 am
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My wife's granddad was 100% Irish, where does that put me?


 
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The sooner people put this 'what nationality are you' thing behind them the better, it's the thin (but seemingly acceptable) end of the racist wedge.

guardianista nonsense.

are you trying to tell me that there is no cultural difference between people from different nations ? are you even going to suggest that these differences shouldn't be celebrated for fear of racism ?

And anyone (except perhaps the remotest of indigenous people) who claims to be anything other than 100% mongrel is really quite deluded

agreed.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:49 am
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About 12.5% working by the OP's table. My great grandfather was posted to County Cork. He moved over with his wife (called Minnie) who died pretty quickly to be replaced by a local girl called Minnie. Good thinking really, he didn't have any of those embarrassing moments when you call a new partner the wrong name!


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:54 am
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0% but my wife's a Norn Ironer and they just recently discovered they're descended from Southern Irish bog trotters so that means my son is at least partially Irish


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:57 am
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100% norn iron 😀


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:58 am
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Probably more than Obama, probably more black than him too - depending on how you measure it of course.

My first Dad was Orcadian so quite sure there I don't think they let people off the island until the 1950s. My Mum is Kiwi going back all the way, so quite possibly some Irish milling about in there somewhere, lots of red hair in the family.

I'll go with 10%.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 8:59 am
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quite a bit 🙂

100% on my dads side, mum is half irish as well.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:00 am
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I guess I'm part Dubonni.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age_tribes_in_Britain


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:01 am
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Born and bred in Belfast. Lived there until I was 21, i have an Irish passport but then moved to Devon 3 years ago.

Apparently that makes me a 100% English c**t according to my family.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:19 am
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My uncle had an irish setter. Good enough for a few million votes if I was running for president.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:21 am
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0%

I do however love the irish as they appreciate the subtle arts of conversation and practical jokes while drunk and are generaly a good natured bunch.

Unless you invade and occupy them, but that's to be expected 😀


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:24 am
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My mum's grandad was born in Limerick.
AFAIK the rest of my ancestrry is pure Leeds


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:26 am
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Speaking as a Limerickman, I'd stick to the Leeds bit 🙂


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:30 am
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25% Irish, 25% Croydon, 50% North of the River.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:31 am
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by that chart, 25%, and maybe related to obama......kearney/keavney just a spelling error when the irish went to america. however, its irrelevant i'm english.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:33 am
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are you trying to tell me that there is no cultural difference between people from different nations ? are you even going to suggest that these differences shouldn't be celebrated for fear of racism ?

There seem to be as many cultural differences within 'nations' than 'between' nations !!
Celebrate them yes, certainly 🙂
just don't define yourself by them or use them as an excuse to put bullets in the post.....


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:43 am
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Dunno. One "set" of my grandparents are from London and the others were from Austria and Czechslovakia. So probably not very.


 
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My wife's granddad was 100% Irish, where does that put me?

Your only screwing about with ethnicity. 😉

Great grandmothers side were Irish, the rest crawled out of some swamp in the fens a few hundred years ago.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 9:52 am
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3/8ths.

Gran Irish, grandfather half Irish, Dad from Yorkshire.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 10:07 am
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My great[i]x[/i]something grandad moved from Ireland to Birmingham and, changing his name to McTimoney in the process. He married an Italian dancer, so I'm as Italian as I am Irish.

But I deny being a Brummie.

My mam's dad was Scottish, so I'm 1/4 Jock.

But, I'm English.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 10:19 am
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25% from my mums side (Grandfather 100% Irish) 6.25% From my Dads

I am American - so a right mixed bag! Including 12.5% Eskimo!


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 10:24 am
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75%


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 10:26 am
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About 25%
but with middle name Patrick and surname Power I get bonus points.

(still English though)


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 10:41 am
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Going back 7 generations i'm 100% English.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 10:56 am
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I'm possibly about 1/32nd, 1/64th or 1/128th or something, but considering I can have a much tinier proportion of alcohol in my body and be absolutely drunk, then I think my Irishness is still significant. 🙂


 
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Mum's family came from County Galway, a [i]very[/i] long time ago. Most of 'em left for the States/Australia, but some of them ended up in the strange new world that is... Somerset.

I'm slightly German on my dad's side. My half-German great grandfather Siegfred was a Lt. Col. in the Royal Engineers - during an, erm, interesting period in British-German relations.


 
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None AFAIK. I could be 50% Welsh 50% English, but my Welsh Grandfather's family several generations before him came from Lancashire.. so there's some Lanc there... but he was pretty Welsh in general every day appearance... Hmm.... My Mum's from Yorkshire but her family before her migrated from Lancashire at some point too.

100% British 🙂


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 11:18 am
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0%, all my family are English as far as I am aware. My surname suggests there is a Welsh connection but nothing significant enough to worry about.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 11:28 am
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100% though lived most of my life over here. No British passport here.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 11:56 am
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2 grand parents from donegal on my da's side came over in the 1930s/40s and 1 great grand parent on my maw's side from antrim came over in the 1860's i think, rest are scottish, don't put much stock in nationalism mind but I guess you work out the numbers as 62.5% irelandish and 37.5% scotlandish.

My second name is number 8 in the most popular irish surnames so that must count for a bit extra!:D Plus we still own some of the ancestery land in Annagry, my da recently sorted that through the lawyers before we nearly lost it, One of my great grannies houses is still there! 🙂


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:10 pm
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Southern Irish or Northern Irish?


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:12 pm
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100% Norn Iron


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:13 pm
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irish great grandma, irish/romany great grandad
so what ever % that is, that is what i am.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:15 pm
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Our family came across to Scotland from Co Tyrone to escape the famine. Still got the Irish surname but much interbreeding with the locals makes me some kind of mongrel. To be sure, I'm technically 25% Irish.


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:29 pm
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100% Irish although born in England, all known ancestors Irish.
“Born in a stable does not make you a horse etc” Daniel O'Connell.


 
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The sooner people put this 'what nationality are you' thing behind them the better, it's the thin (but seemingly acceptable) end of the racist wedge

I can't believe you really think that so must put this down as a troll


 
Posted : 24/05/2011 12:32 pm
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1 1/16 Irish. Great Grandmother.


 
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