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Posted: 6/30/2008 11:15:16 AM | I'm 100% Irish and it's great to be one of the originals.
And because Irish people have contributed greatly to various countries' populations it means I have many many relatives worldwide - I couldn't be prouder of the fact that the Irish are so fertile.
Hello to all my kin out there - it doesn't matter what % Irish you have in you, you should feel very good coming from the land of saint's, scholars, hoofers and musicians - what a wonderful legacy to have been gifted with by birth - you are all so lucky !! | |
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Posted: 6/30/2008 12:40:05 PM | Ha ha loved your post Cheezy. When we were kids we used to say we were 1/3 Irish (dad) 1/3 Welsh (mum) and 1/3 English, (born in England) My Dad always used to say "ye Dads Irish and you're Irish" bless him, thats it then.
If I was on holiday, and someone asked where I was from, I would say I was from England. | |
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Posted: 6/30/2008 12:42:07 PM | I havent read the whole thread..but i noticed this in the opening post:
from personal experience I have noticed that the Scots and Irish tend to say that they are Scottish or Irish rather than saying that they are British.
I am Irish, so why would i say that i am British???? | |
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Posted: 6/30/2008 3:26:49 PM |
I am Irish, so why would i say that i am British????
Exactly ..you would have to wonder about someone who claims to be British as opposed to being someone who is from a different country completely within the British Isles - people from different nations have different identities and you should be patriotic.
I don't get ..at all, how anybody born in the north of Ireland says they are a Brit or from the UK when they so clearly are not and not just because their part of the world used to be a part of the entire country of Ireland and still remains a part of the English Empire but because they do indeed have a seperate identity, which makes them stand out - culture, history etc...at least say you are from the north of Ireland - make that particular distinction and be proud of it that way you won't disenfranchise your fellow country men who consider themselves equally rightful heirs of the land that provides you with you with your life's breath.
I'd never introduce myself as a European, even though I was born in Europe - what is a European ?
You are either from the continent, meditteranean, from eastern europe or the british isles - on the basis of geography alone, we are absolutely from different areas/countries - why deny it ?
And if I were English bred and born I'd be well p1ssed off with people jumping on the bandwagon claiming to be British when we all know that the essence of being British is being English, wether you are a lovely pale shade of pinky-white or are very lucky to have a delicious darker hue to your skin | |
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Posted: 6/30/2008 10:42:44 PM | | I'm British and Irish as I have a mixed heritage. My mum was born in Dublin, so she is Irish and in no way British. My dad was born and raised in Coventry, as was I. His mum was Scottish and we also have a lot of family in Scotland, Eire and Wales. I am FROM England and was born here so I am legally English, but I am both British and Irish | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 12:56:26 AM | | i am proud of the fact i am english ,and if people ask me where i am from i say england ,i do not think the english show enough pride in being english ,the scots ,irish,welsh are pround to say what they are and so should the english | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 1:02:12 AM | | have to disagree with you msg 208,.....the north of ireland is part of the uk,..therefore people can say there british if they want,like me.you dont see the irish flying the union jack do you? | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 1:16:17 AM | why would we fly the Union Jack?!!!!
Dont get me started on this subject, seriously!!!
I mail guys in Belfast and im blocked because they are not excepting messages from people from my country. Or i tell a Belfast Guy that im working in the midlands and they assume its England. They dont have a notion where anywhere is in the rest of ireland. They are a joke....Imagine living in such a small country and not visiting the majority of an island regardless of what religion you are... | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 1:29:54 AM | msg 212,i was only commenting on 208 post,saying that *how can people born in the north ,say there british when there clearly not,............not evryone born in northern ireland claims to be british,and i dont think i need to go into detail,i hold a out of date british passport,there fore i am.
vvvvvvvvvjust wondering,have you got a british/uk passport,or an irish one? | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 9:58:28 AM | ^^^^^^^^
I mail guys in Belfast and im blocked because they are not excepting messages from people from my country.
Is it any wonder when semi-literate bigots give it a bad name by posting hate-filled drivel  | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 10:35:43 AM | From bits of research I have done it seems that all us English, Welsh, & Scots are decended from Germanic/Black Sea people. Irish/Gaelic people are from an entirely different dna line.
There are so many variances throughout the ages it would be easier, but still correct, to say that if you were born in England you are English, born in Wales & you are Welsh, & so on. It matters not where other members of your family were born.
We all, to some degree or another, have different races/dna in our blood. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 11:07:17 AM |
Irish/Gaelic people are from an entirely different dna line.
We all, to some degree or another, have different races/dna in our blood.
Ummm surely the second statement totally trumps the first then | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 11:22:20 AM |
Ummm surely the second statement totally trumps the first then [/quote
Not really, different races have different dna lines, totally seperate!.
This is of course a very simplistic answer, a more indepth one would bore the pants off most people, but the info is out there if you want to find it. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 11:32:19 AM | "i do not think the english show enough pride in being english "
Im not sure we are allowed to, gets a bit too jingoistic for people I think, somthing of course only the English could ever be guilty of | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 11:37:45 AM | I'm Irish born and bred, but raised in a part of the country that remains under British jurisdiction, so a British subject, but an Irish National. I have no difficulty with my fellow country men describing themselves as British. Adh Mor to them.  | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 12:26:03 PM | I would say that I am English.
I would NEVER say that I am European, Europe is completely separate from the UK, except for that dreadful tunnel which lets in thousands of illegal immigrants every year. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 2:43:20 PM | | I usually say Lanky, as in short for Lancastrian. Usually just saying Liverpool will let people who where you are from thanks to the Beatles. Too much is made of 'nationality', and the confusion people get into over English/British is enough to stay away from that conversation:D | |
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