This is Irish American History Month. Now THAT'S something I can celebrate. How 'bout you?

[Lliam]

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Share a story about your ancestry, family, or a story about Irish encounters.

[lightbulb27]

The Irish were key to building the country we have.

They also make exceptional cheddar cheese, which we frequently buy since the American version has no flavor.

The story of St. Patrick is an exceptional one.

Seen them dancing like that, it's a speciality and those girls are in amazing shape to do that... a lot of training required to dance like dolls.

Beyond that, I have a hard time with the accent. I once enjoyed listening to an Irish singing group. But when I hear the women talk in English, it was nearly unintelligle... like they were space aliens.

We can thank our lucky charms for them!

[Lliam]

After my wife and I got married, I took her to annual Irish festivals in the Los Angeles ares. At some point, she took Irish dancing class, but the troupe's goal was to enter competitions and my wife wasn't interested in that, so she dropped out after a couple of years. But she had learned a lot of moves and gotten pretty good at it. I got a kick out of watching her hopping, kicking her legs and prancing like a pony.

I'm of Irish ancestry and have studied Ireland a lot. She is German but has red hair and can easily pass for Irish. LOL

The two of us spent two weeks in the Republic of Ireland. It was magical.

Speaking of accents. My wife has a hard time.
We met a guy who was rethatching a cottage. He was a funny, super friendly little geezer with a thick accent. We chatted for a while. I could understand him buy my wife couldn't. LOL

[lightbulb27]

That's funny, it is unique tongue! She's wise to give that up, it's always young girls doing that dancing for good reason. stick with gardening... potatoes!

[madhatters4]

i mean i don't celebrate irish heritage month but i have no issue with the celebration and recognition of people and their irish heritage or the incredible contributions of the Irish people

[Lliam]

Honestly, I didn't even know there was an Irish American History month. I always just celebrated St. Paddy's Day.

[midnightmoon05]

I dated my little sister’s history teacher who is Irish decent.
I work with lots of Irish ☘️.
we were going to visit Ireland last summer. We changed our plans and just stayed in London. we didn’t want to deal with rain and being wet.
my brother makes American style corn beef annually … we all love it with the potatoes and cabbage.

[Lliam]

Very cool. You should get to Ireland some time. It's wonderful. It doesn't rain all the time. And when it does, it is often a short gentle rain.

[douride2]

I never knew it even existed till I read your post here.

[Sal_Monella]

My people are Scots Irish (except the ones that are Cherokee). We came out of Cairnryan In southeastern Scotland into Belfast to work in factories and shipbuilding. Oliver Cromwell required because the Irish Catholics were committing a form of jihad against the British and would not work for them.

Many of us became farmers and land owners too. We migrated to the west from Belfast into County Donegal. We emigrated from Ulster and Scotland to Virginia around 1770.

[Lliam]

Cool story, Sal. So you're family has been here since before the revolution.

My dad's ancestors were from Wexford. I know all about them. My mom thought hers were from somewhere around Cork but she wasn't sure. They were all Catholics.
My paternal great, great, great grandfather and his wife, along with their 8 children joined a chartered voyage and sailed into New Orleans in 1850. They took a riverboat to St. Louis and spent 3 years, then built a farm in Wisconsin near the Mississippi.
My mom's ancestors entered the country around the same time and settled in Iowa.

[Sevenpointfive]

i remember being 4 or 5 learning about leprechauns. and i'd be really sad because the rainbows would never show up near me. so i could never try to find the leprechauns gold.

this is true.

[Hagar88]

We get a day. Thats enough.

Am I the only one who thinks all this lgbtq month, black history month and women's month is horseshit? Have a day, march all yoh want.

[Lliam]

I posted about Irish America History Month, not that other shit.

[Hagar88]

Sorry im Irish. Not Irish American. You guys can eat your cabbage & corned beef for a month i guess

[Lliam]

LOL.

[NathanDavis]

guess I'll wait for the Texan History Month...

is that Mayo or something?

[robocop666]

you mean the famine? how the brits tried to exterminate us so we left to America

[beefcakebradybatson]

Let's celebrate buxom Irish lasses !!!

[Lliam]

Aye, laddie!

[beefcakebradybatson]

That's why I'm a proud boy, not a Proud Boy !!!

[exitseven]

Yes, drink a beer for me.

[exitseven]

I am of Italian decent but when I was in college I had a professor that taught a class in Irish politics. I forget how I ended up there but he made Ireland sound so cool that I wanted to go there. I was training to run a marathon and I wanted to do the Dublin Marathon. I had too many injuries that I could never run another marathon so I did not go

[fish5505_87]

My niece took Irish dancing for years!