Posted on 01/19/2006 8:02:19 AM PST by mjp
INCEST PING!
From moasicwolf
"I wonder if the genetics of this find may have some significance to the high level of alcoholism in that culture?"
Careful buddy, those are my people
Child Support?
Kinda cool doing research on your descendents. Thankfully we were not part of this motley crew.
For most of us, doing research on our descendants doesn't go very far...but on our ancestors, now that's a different issue....
Did I say "descendats" instead of ansestors? Quick what's the phone number to Art Bell - do I have a story for his show.
Wow. It didn't take long for anti-Irish bias to show up.
Funny that you thought that way. I didn't.
I was thinking this meant there were three million other prosperous, well-h**g lovers out there.
I read a long time ago that Ireland has the highest percentage of alcohol abstainers in Europe and does not have the highest alcoholism rates there. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was the then-premier who said it, in a similar angry retort to bias.
"Ever read Born Fighting?"
Not yet - But I did hear about it and it's on my list of books to get. Thanks for the reminder.
Robb Roy scot here.
I do lots of genealogy, too...I've said the same thing!
My hubby and I met because we both had ancestors in the same yankee POW camp during the civil war. Talk about genealogical connections!
Irish people like to drink - the drunks tens to be 25% Irish and they blame their drinking on that 25%. Most 75-100% Irish can handle their booze.
Like Damien,no one really knows who Beelzeflubba's father really was..
You wrote:
"Irish people like to drink - the drunks tens to be 25% Irish and they blame their drinking on that 25%. Most 75-100% Irish can handle their booze."
You drinking now?
Modern surnames tracing their ancestry to Niall include (O')Gallagher,
Drop the O and there I am!
I don't think that is what black Irish means. That is an American term along with shanty Irish and lace Irish.
Whoo hoo! I'm royalty! You may all bow down before me and call me Princess.
"I don't think that is what black Irish means." That is an American term along with shanty Irish and lace Irish.
Google it, it is true. Also refered to as Dark Irish. Though there are other meanings of "Black Irish" and you mentioned a few, In Ireland though they do not use the term Black Irish at all. It is an American term and the meaning may vary by the part of the country it's used.
My little brother was so dark I remember my Dad arguing with a Mexican border guard who thought he was sneeking a little Mexican boy accross the border.
LOL!
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