Are you of Irish ancestry??

Yes, mother's side.

My mother's side as well, maybe we're related

Yes I am. I even bore-arsed my Irish neighbor about my Irish ancestry, even while knowing full well that real Irish people don't count the Irish diaspora as Irish. In fact they hate it when we bring it up.

Yes, on my mother's side, and I was always drawn to this side of me. Near the end of her life, she told me a bunch of stories that I never knew - about the people who came over, and that the last name was changed, and that for some reason, they changed religions. Wait, my whole life I thought we were Irish Catholic from waaaaaay back, but we were originally protestant... when you think of the battles, how does that even happen. She didn't know; that story was never told to her I guess - and the great grands and grands have long passed so I'll never know. But it was thrown, my origin story got a retcon. (Not totally, that's how I was raised so that what I am, but it was odd to go from "this is who we are, what we were named, to nope, when they came over on the boat, it changed")

And that always made me sad, being rejected by them. The Germans on my father's side were the opposite, just a joyful, friendly group - our people might have scattered, but we love you and accept you as German. I don't know if the majority of German's are like that, but they were.

My grandfather always wanted to go back to Ireland, he never realized that dream, I wonder if he would have been greeted warmly.

No.

I learned today from a little history lesson on the radio that St. Patrick also was not Irish!
Wha-wha-WHHAAAT?

He was born in Britain (under Roman rule) sometime during the 5th century A.D. At the age of 16 he was kidnapped by Irish pirates to become a slave in Ireland.
After 6 years working in Ireland as a herder, he escaped back to his family. After becoming a cleric, he returned to Ireland to spread Christianity.

Yeah many people think he was Welsh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-31912199

I highly doubt it. The only family name near being Irish is Hayes, but it can be Scottish and English.

Im mostly Scottish, English, Norman English, Dutch, German and American Indian.

Yes, my Grandpa on my Mum's side was from Dublin, Ireland.

My mother had the most common of Irish surnames.

I have Scottish as well. One great grandmother named Struhan.

Love the vocals on this song...

Im a Shaw, which is part of the Chattan Confederation. Also, a Graham. In Rob Roy, the 1st Duke of Montrose was a Graham (Originally spelled Graeme; played by John Hurt), Julian surname , which is English, Holler, which is Dutch, Godfrey, which is Norman English and Armentrout, which is German. The American Indian is on my Father's side.

I have dark blonde hair with blue grey eyes. I have my mother's coloring. My father looks very much American Indian but had sky blue eyes.

I too am Scottish, English and Welsh. Except for a few Alsatians, most of my ancestors are from the UK and Ireland.
But I don't really know their history. I just had my DNA analyzed.

Yay!

Croeso i'r clwb

I'm 14% Irish according to my Ancestry DNA test. I'm telling you all this, but it's not something I tell everybody. It's not good to aspire to be like the people in this sketch:

I'm half Irish.

Thank you! I'm basically 'Murrican, but I do have a preponderance of Ls in my last name.

No.

Dad's Japanese. He's not from Japan, but his grandparents were. According to the DNA profile she did, mom's mostly of British descent.

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I thought I was, growing up. I was told (or thought I was told) I was German-Scot-Irish. Turns out German yes, Scottish a bit, but Irish not much at all.