Who here is Irish? I am Scotch Irish and am very proud! Celebrate your heritage!
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I am! because I am irish and proud of it!
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Oooh. Beltane is my favorite holiday... it's the best out there. How can you refuse a holiday made for you and your sweety to get it on?
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First of all, Boston is full of Irish and Irish-Americans, so you don't have to worry about finding acceptance there.  Second, except for Macey (don't know where the h*ll she's comin' from), I've never known anyone here in America that didn't like Irish accents.  Many, many of us have Irish ancestry and listening to someone with an Irish accent is very  enjoyable.  I'm sure you will have a great time and get lots of positive attention because of your accent.
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im irish and ive been called charmin. it seriously comes naturally to us, but i think it has something to do with confidence
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I gravitate more towards the Celtic because it's part of my heritage.  I've always been drawn to Ceridwen.
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I agree with you- it's sad that most people only associate the Irish with one of 4 things: drunkenness, brogues, the color green and possibly the Blarney Stone. \nIf we were to celebrate it as a national holiday here in the U.S., perhaps more people would be aware of the long suffering plight of the Irish people. It's indeed a sad thing that a lot of folks who dress up in green once a year, don some green beaded necklaces and drink 'til they puke- all without really understanding who and what the Irish culture and people have gone through and continue to experience daily.
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My friends and family are going up to our cottage.  We will be boating, swimming, drinking, having a bon fire, drinking, waiving our Canadian flags, drinking and we'll have fireworks at the end of the night.  \n\nHAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!!!! We are SOOOOO lucky to live where we do!!!!!!! CHEERS!!! :
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I think that Scotland and Wales both have their own identity and language and there are probably separatist movements.  Northern Ireland should be returned to Ireland IMHO.
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I don't consider myself to be of Irish descent, although I probably have more Irish ancestors than a lot of people. (My region was settled mainly by Irish immigrants "back in the day.") Face it, people want to have some kind of ethnic heritage other than just generic American, whatever it may be. Hmmm, I don't really know, so I'll make an educated guess. Mexican? Nah, I don't look Mexican. Or Italian, for that matter. German? I think my name's too normal. Normal? Hey, it's probably from somewhere in the U.K. or Ireland! And didn't great aunt Mildred mention something about someone coming over from Dublin in 1902? Why, I bet...\n\nI'm probably overstating a little, but you get the point.
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I have always loved Ireland I am part Irish. I dream of someday living there. I find an Irish accent very attractive................very sexy! I find it a turn on.
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Up the Irish !!\n\nIm irish !!
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I love the Irish! They are hard working, practical, and fun loving people. I really like the Gaelic language.
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Let me declare an interest before I post my answer to your question. My grandmother, a young girl with eight sisters, were sent from Mayo by their family to the safety of England. They lived in a workhouse in Oldham, Lancashire. \nMy father was brought up catholic and became an altar boy. He married my mother, a protestant. My mum and dad were shunned by dad's side of the family until 12 years after teh wedding when, in 1958, I was born.\nMost of us in England only took an interest in Irish / Ulster affairs when the bombing and terror came to 'the mainland'. As a young child, accompanying my dad's family to the Irish Land League club in Oldham, i was accustomed to seeing the shamrock of Sinn Fein. It was an image that held no fear for me.\nTo me, one thing is clear. We stole Ireland from the Irish and we can never give it back. Our countries were different places at the time of partition. The time in which a United Ireland my have explored its new 'Irishness' has passed. The age has already dawned of 'the global village.' Where i live now, fellow mancunians oriniginate from Poland and eastern europe, from all points of Africa and Asia; from South America and Australasia. What was 'Englishness' has gone and some mourn; and with it the era in which a United irishness might have been explored and culivated.\nI love Ireland: i love its music and liteature, i love its people and its landscape. I am truly sorry, as a born and brought up Brit, for all that my mother country perpetrated upon my father's mother's country.\nI feel at home in Mayo, but i know it can never be my home. It is a comfort to know I can go there any time I like and have a beer or two at Molloy's.\nIreland, like England, belongs to the world now. It's yours, but it's mine, too.\n\nWith respect and warm regards\n\nScannan
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HEY,ITS THE DESPERATE CLOWN HERE.YOU ANSWERED MY LOVE QUESTION............i'm an irish clown from DERRY...lol.\nits great the way the Irish get behind there national teams in all sports.Always praising no matter what!!Not like the Brits who slag there teams at every oppertunity
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I was born on an iceberg off the coast of Antarctica. I'm of Irish decent from the line of Donegal but if traced back to the pre conquest of that area I'm of Scandinavian ancestry ( there were not any blond Irish before we showed up ) and I was raised in Canada. I'm six foot three inches at two hundred and ten pounds with blue eyes and short sandy to blond hair and I'm so white I'm actually Irish pink. God help me if I get caught in the Sun; I burst into flames! Nice to meet You, I hope You have a happy thanksgiving.
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This is a nice change from all the rubbish we receive, great joke!\nJust as well that I am a Scot and not Irish! Keep it going, iain xx
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Gaelic could be Scottish Gaelic and Irish is Irish Gaelic? I'm not sure but there maybe a Welsh Gaelic too.