I was talking to my Grandmother, Mothers side, one time on how my Grandfather didn’t look Irish, more like a Scot.
She said don’t tell anyone his family converted.
So years later I saw one of his family name shaking in his boots about a Protestant Minister of his family name preaching in Belfast, we are all going to die.
105 posts and no mention of Kevin Bacon?
That is almost as bad as the family secret about my grandfather from County Cork having had IRA ties. My Dublin born grandmother admitted it only after he was dead and she was well into her eighties. Even then, looking carefully around her room in the nursing home, my grandmother whispered the long suspected secret and warned that it was not to be spoken of outside the family.