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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!
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
100% norn iron 😀
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%.
quite a bit 🙂
100% on my dads side, mum is half irish as well.
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.
My uncle had an irish setter. Good enough for a few million votes if I was running for president.
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 😀
My mum's grandad was born in Limerick.
AFAIK the rest of my ancestrry is pure Leeds
Speaking as a Limerickman, I'd stick to the Leeds bit 🙂
25% Irish, 25% Croydon, 50% North of the River.
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.
trailmonkey - Memberare 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.....
Dunno. One "set" of my grandparents are from London and the others were from Austria and Czechslovakia. So probably not very.
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.
3/8ths.
Gran Irish, grandfather half Irish, Dad from Yorkshire.
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.
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!
75%
About 25%
but with middle name Patrick and surname Power I get bonus points.
(still English though)
Going back 7 generations i'm 100% English.
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. 🙂
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.
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 🙂
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.
100% though lived most of my life over here. No British passport here.
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! 🙂
Southern Irish or Northern Irish?
100% Norn Iron
irish great grandma, irish/romany great grandad
so what ever % that is, that is what i am.
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.
100% Irish although born in England, all known ancestors Irish.
“Born in a stable does not make you a horse etc” Daniel O'Connell.
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
1 1/16 Irish. Great Grandmother.
That graph seems very simplistic
Do we know for a fact that none of Obama's other ancestors were Irish or part Irish?
I bet the bloke who emigrated live in and married within the Irish community, and his children probably did too.
Dave
I haven't a clue how to do a percentage but here's my heritage:
Paternal grandfather - Irish
Paternal grandmother - welsh
Maternal great grandfather - French
Maternal great grandmother - English
Which I'm certain makes me an Englishman but one that tans easily.
stilltortoise - Member
I can't believe you really think that so must put this down as a troll
Sorry to dissapoint, but it's actual real life thought rather than preconceived wind-up.
Nationalism is used as a smoke screen by racist groups, take it away and the extremism is easier to identify and fight against.
Born - Scotland
Parents - Both Scottish
Grandparents - All Scottish
Great grandparents - All Scottish I think.
Think the Scottish line goes back a long way, possibly back to Norweigan decendancy back in the Viking times, or so I think someone told me from the Orkney side of the family (probably pulling my young leg but I did like that possibility!!).
So probably about as Irish as Pres Obama!
What is beyond a shadow of a doubt is that my heritage certainly makes me a better person than most! Can't get any better than a true Scotsman (this is a proven fact so no point in arguing 8) ) 😉
Im an eight Irish plus 10% for drinking guinness for over 20 years 🙂
no point in arguing
I think we're collectively well aware there's no point arguing with a scot, authentic or synthetic variety 😆
That graph seems very simplistic
Good job alfabus, that's the hidden message behind my thread - wtf is "Irishness"? But if it makes Barack happy to pursue a tenuous family connection who are we to complain, and it's an excuse to drink Guinness 🙂
There are ~3 billion base pairs, holding ~6 billion bits of information, in the human genome. That's roughly as many bits as there are people in existence. I imagine that most of us are genetically related to each other [amusing thought].
Mother's side - both Irish although family legend suggests that my great, great grandmother ran off with a Japanese schoolteacher.
Paternal Grandmother - both parents German
Paternal Grandfather - third generation German
Therefore I'm entirely British.
Two sets of my great grandparents were Irish, but one set were Fitzgeralds, so I'm claiming descent from the Normans who invaded Ireland in the 11th century and by descent the Vikings.
(Where's the horned helmet smiley?)
From Grandparents down, 75% Irish. Born in England.
If England play Ireland at anything I'm English though... middle name is Patrick for a bonus point.