Rediscovering my Irish Roots

[McCauley]

Yes, I love York. If I'd have gone to uni in the UK that's probably where I would have gone. Bath is sort of its equivalent down here and I love Bath too.

There is a coastal town in my state called Bath, it's one of our oldest, if not the oldest settlement here. Blackbeard was known to hole up there from time to time.

[Smaug]

Aww sorry, you poor lamb. Yes it means you're related to satan.

I knew you'd love my post

I'm joking of course, York is a beautiful town.

No there is no a great variance in what people look like. There is no uniformity of look in any county but a variety of colouring across all counties.

Here are people from Donegal. It's not like Ireland is a huge place. Would a person from Dublin stand out in Donegal just on their appearance? I highly doubt it.

Very nice, thank you. Yes, I think you're, Ireland is too small to have a big variation. Anyways I'm very happy to be part Irish and to belong to this great people.

[Catkin]

I knew you'd love my post

I'm joking of course, York is a beautiful town.

Anyway, McGuires of Dublin, huh? Ironically we could be related.

[Smaug]

Anyway, McGuires of Dublin, huh? Ironically we could be related.

Really? What are the odds right? Ironic indeed. One small question: did your family keep the Catholic faith or it was lost amongst you over the generations?

[Catkin]

Really? What are the odds right? Ironic indeed. One small question: did your family keep the Catholic faith or it was lost amongst you over the generations?

My mum was christened Irish Catholic, but she's protestant now. My grandad and his sisters stayed staunchly catholic, though they didn't actually go to church. He used to say it was the only true faith.

[Smaug]

My mum was christened Irish Catholic, but she's protestant now. My grandad and his sisters stayed staunchly catholic, though they didn't actually go to church. He used to say it was the only true faith.

Your ancestors moved to Britain during the Famine too?

[Catkin]

Your ancestors moved to Britain during the Famine too?

Not until 1937-ish. They were affected by the famine though I think. Can see lots of deaths in the family at that time, many very young children/babies.

[Smaug]

I found a fellow Irishman with the surname McDonnell, he even looks a bit like me:



He is from Galway, which I have ancestry from.

[SaraNM]

In answer to your question about Irish preferring to marry people from their own county I don't think this was the case. In the past it might have been easier to marry people of similar background but Irish appear to have married people from different countries when they went abroad. If you look at what happened in countries like the US, Britain and here in Australia Irish didn't stick to their own nationality but were quite happy to have spouses of other backgrounds.

In the case of my family, when they arrived in Argentina, they got together and married in irish communities with other irish families who had immigrated as well

[Smaug]

In the case of my family, when they arrived in Argentina, they got together and married in irish communities with other irish families who had immigrated as well

Where in Argentina can the Irish be found? I know there's a Welsh colony in Chubut. In Brazil we had a Welsh community in Rio Grande do Sul, a Cornish in southern Minas Gerais and an English in São Paulo, but they are all gone by now, although in São Paulo one can still found influences left by them, as well as people of British descent.