Top O' The Morning To You. Are Ye Wearing A Wee Bit Of The Green Today?

The Irish names in my family were Burk(e), Maddock, Lee and Kelley...yikes try to find the history behind common names like Lee and Kelley..
I'd really like to find out more about my great-grandmother's line as it was thought there origins were actually older in America than the potato famine years and may have first settled in the south ...my great-grandmother had many southern traditions that were thought strange in Brooklyn, NY...LOL

Well, all the ancestors came over before Ellis Island opened, but only just barely.

That includes both of mom's grandmothers and her grandfather on her mother's side. The Pateral name side came to settle in New Amsterdam, but her grandfather married the Dailey, and her mother's side was German/English - her English grandfather wouldn't let her German grandmother teach any of the children German. However, a couple of words slipped down to us anyway - thank you and bless you (when you sneeze).

All my ancestors on my other ethnic groups came to America long before Ellis Island also...mainly in the late 1600s and early 1700s--that would be the German side mainly and French, Spanish, Dutch, English, Scottish and Welsh

I got to pinch someone!!! But I didn't pinch hard.

LOL-I'm part Spanish too...actually I'm a whole array of ethnic groups..fondly known as an American mutt..LOL--my grandfather's (maternal side) mother's father was from Madrid, Spain--I've done a lot of searching for my family history...would like to know more though

hahaha... I'm a Filipina mutt too... ... chinese, filipino, spanish ahahaha... but mostly spanish... I haven't tried tracing my ancestors in Spain... too expensive lol and sure, I'd like to know hee hee... maybe that's why i don't look much like pinoy now chinese nor spanish. It's a lil of everything

I used to watch Riverdance when it'd be on the PBS channels....long time ago, when Michael Flatley was still the head honcho dancer...LOL

He was GREAT I can just watch that all day. I wonder how the keep their arms straight down beside them?? That has to take so much!

I could never understand why Irish dancing does that..meaning keeping one's arms down like that...when the scottish do that kind of dancing they don't

Hi hoghoney, great to see you hear...uh, where would you like me to pinch ya? LOL

I would love to trace my great-grandparents line in Ireland itself...but yikes I'm dealing with common names like Kelly, Burke and Lee. I guess my great-grandparents weren't involved with the political ideals of Ireland as even though they were Catholic, they didn't bat an eye when my mother married a Methodist...LOL

Kind of how I feel about mine with names like Miller and Forrest, although there is a McClean in the Forrest line. I haven't found anything beyond the Miller who came here with his wife Catherine. I know where he lived, and there are Millers still there, but I don't know who he connects to. I didn't have time the one partial day we were in the area to check out their historical center. But, I did go the records office in Belfast and STILL didn't find anything. I did, however, find the passenger records of their coming to the USA. Apparently, Catherine had an older brother who ventured over first before the rest followed.

Oh, and my Irish were Church of Ireland and Episcopalian there, but when they got here, they attended Methodist...most likely because it was the "only game in town".

I wore my one and only green shirt..LOL

I'm pagan/wiccan myself and learned the real truth behind St. Patrick as well. LOL--among my many ethnic groups I'm also part Native American....I wear black on Columbus Day...LOL

Yup--I took a peeky at your MySpace profile and saw your VERY red-headed son...LOL...Did you know it used to be the belief that people with red hair were thought to be witches?? I guess perhaps maybe since for the most part red-hair wasn't common. Most of the Irish on my maternal side were blondes...except for my great-grandfather who had black hair..."black Irish"--meaning having Spanish roots (no pun intended)--my mother though was the only flaming natural redhead..me? Born with black hair..go figure--must have been the French, German, Native American coming out there

I had heard the old superstition about redheads...and I know my father thought my mother was a "witch"...or maybe it was b1tch...lol

My oldest was born redheaded but darkened by the first 6 months...and I was born a redhead...my paternal grandmother was full Cherokee but not a drop of it showed up on me...the Irish runs strong in my blood.....my ancestors came here and settled in the Appalachians so not only do I have strong Irish roots I'm a total hillbilly too...lol

Well my anglo blood must have taken over since I'm "lily white"---LOL...though that doesn't really mean anything as I know full blood Mohawks just as "white"---Some yahoo actually started an argument with me and kept saying I didn't look "Indian"----I tend to wear a lot of Native American type jewelry when I'm out including one of those bone choker necklaces I made myself...so this twit kept saying "You're not Indian"--sheesh what did he want me to do...ride on a horse wearing full regalia on and ride into the sunset???

LOL--oh yes, the Irish are a passionate folk....They endured a lot of hardships when they came to America as they were often targeted against and US citizens often claimed that the Irish took jobs away from Americans...gee, sounds kind of familiar doesn't it? My mother and grandmother told me that in my great-grandparents time that the common signs on windows was "Irish need not apply"--for jobs

Nope--didn't know that...just looked it up now.

I heard it on the radio.