[chajin]

It seems that with Irish ancestry as with everything else, the issue is not the issue, because the issue is always the revolution.

(My gggrandparents came from Co Donegal to Philadelphia in 1860 and the gggrandfather immediately joined the Union army; all that eventually resulted in 1/4 Irish me, but I won’t get a plaque either I guess.)

[Myrddin]

I have Welsh, Irish and Scottish ancestry. Thanks to Duolingo, I'm moderately fluent in Welsh and making progress in Scots Gaelic and Irish. Duolingo is polishing my rusty skills in German from the time I passed the SAT II and oral proficiency as a graduation requirement at UCSD. I've been working on Spanish as well and made more progress than my "required" classes in junior high school. On a lark, I'm attempting Mandarin Chinese. The most challenging part is reading the sentences in the Chinese pictograms and properly pronouncing it for the voice recognition.