John / Billybob
Hope you enjoyed your visit to the lovely Laurel Highlands. I’m pleased to call it home!
My Irish name every St. Patricks day is “Patty O’Furniture.
....Bob
Cheers, y'all!
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Not quite accurate. The official name is 'Londonderry'. Though many Catholics will refer to it as 'Derry'.
The Northern Ireland Tourist Board designates the city as 'Londonderry/Derry, but the county is known only as 'Londonderry.
BTTT.
I have an Irish ancestor that came to America. Born 1752 in Ireland. I just don't know where. The thing that I thought was interesting is that he's listed in 2 census for Chippewa Ohio as being one of the men with a gun and ammo to fight Indians in 1816 and 1819. And the libs try telling us that no one owned a gun? THAT Irishman did!
Well I am just a few miles away from Ligonier (the have a festival there ‘Ligonier Days’). Small world...glad you liked your visit.
Both of my parents were first generation Irish, County Mayo and County Cork. My one wish is to go to Ireland (one still in college, two more to go...so it won’t be for some time) and visit where my family tree springs from. All four of my grandparents came over at the turn of the last century...my maternal grandmother came as a ‘housegirl’ servant for one of the Mellon households. She was a tall, strong girl...who was several years younger than her age was given to be (apparently that was done quite a bit as the girls would send money back home). She eventually worked in a ‘fine house’ on Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section...there is a delightful story of the ‘girls’ in their mistress’s out of style furs/hats hand me downs walking to St. Paul’s Cathedral for Mass each Sunday.
Lovely write-up; thank you! I went on the roots trip a few years ago and solved some family mysteries. It is a magical island.
No Derry has not thrown off “the symbol of its British yoke” (an idiotic phrase) its official name is still Londonderry only the local council’s name was changed. By the way with a name like Armor and settling in Pennsylvania I’ll bet a hundred to one he was a staunch Protestant and his people in Ulster today would be pro-British loyalists.
I am a Scotsman, and will never be Irish!
(and no undies)
To my Late Father in Heaven - a Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Daddy - I love you. If I could ask a favor of fellow Freepers, could you wish my Late Father, a Happy St. Patrick’s Day, thank you. It is hard to keep a straight face tomorrow, songs like: Danny Boy and When Irish Eyes are Smiling make me cry. I hope to visit Ireland one day./Just Asking - seoul62......
Happy St. Paddy’s Day, BB! I have Irish on both sides o’ me family (County Clare on one). ‘Tis this time o’ year I’m usually nippin’ a Guinness or two reflectin’ on the ones who came before, their names written in the great family Bible...(hic!)...and there he is, “Paddy McDrill, horse thief”...died of a fall, he did...well, faith and the rope might have had somethin’ to do with it...
The Obama show has jumped the shark, like a worn out sitcom they are trying gimmicks to bring their ratings back, heck Mork and Mindy or The Brady Bunch was better.
This is one of those very rare days that we get to openly celebrate White heritage/ethnicity/culture.
Ancient Order of Hibernians (American Irish Democrats)
Social Democratic and Labour Party. (Main Catholic/nationalist organization in Northern Ireland)
Irish Northern Aid Committee (Sinn Fein's American front)
Sinn Fein (political front of the Provisional IRA)
Republican Sinn Fein (political front of the Continuity IRA)
32 County Sovereignty Movement (political front of the Real/True/Dissident/New IRA)
Workers Party (What's left of the original Sinn Fein, former political front of the defunct Official IRA).
Irish Republican Socialist Movement (Political front of the Irish National Liberation Army)
Workers Solidarity Movement (Irish anarchist organization)
You would think an ancient chr*stian country like Ireland would somewhere or other be able to produce a right wing nationalist movement, but it seems every single Irish nationalist movement in existence is Communist. Of course, the Irish are no worse than the other Celts.
What's with this mixing of Marxism and "blood and soil" nationalism? Whatever happened to the de-nationalized worldwide workers republic???