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I was born in the west of Ireland and have lived in Ireland all my life. My parents/grandparents,great grandparents and great great grandparents are all from within a 30mile radius of the same area of Connacht. Culturally and ethnically I am Irish.

What do you mean?

Just know its out the Buncrana rd

Ulster has 9 counties. 6 of which make NI. "The Eire government"?? What is this? Éire is the Irish word for Ireland. Ireland would undoubtedly be a better place if the British went home to their own island and stopped interferring in our island.

It is an interesting and unusal situation. Todd in Ireland is both of English and Scottish extraction and appeared in the 1659 census. There can be many explanations, here are just a few obvious ones: 1) The family were present in Ireland before the major plantations of the 1600's and were...

There is no such thing to my knowledge of a Catholic Ulster Scot and if there is they are few and far between and probably a more recent phenomenon. The Catholic people in Ulster would in the main be descendants of the original inhabitants. The animosity between the Irish and the Ulster Scots...

Yes the Ulster Scots named their children with typically English and Scottish names and have always done so. Have you ever heard of the plantation of Ulster?

Shannon in the form Ó Seanacháin (which is also Shanahan) is a Dál gCais name from north Munster. Ó Sionáin (Sheenan as opposed to Shannon) is sometimes considered a variant of Ó Seanáin which is a County Tyrone sept. It is also Shinane, a west Clare name now widely changed to Shannon and...

Are you sure about that? Schanon as you've spelled it doesn't evenly remotely look like a Gaelic name that has been anglicised, however it is possible. Shannon is Ó Seannacháin or Ó Seanáin in Irish. There is another version Ó Sionáin (Sheenan) that is found more commonly in Ulster.

Yes they came from Ulster, however their origins are in Scotland.

The Ulster Scots largely did not interbreed with the native Irish (and to this day remain a separate identifiable community). They also in the main did not emigrate to America at the same time as the native Irish. Most Ulster Scot migration to America occured in the 1700's and early 1800's...

The modern Irish word for Horse is Capall. I've never heard of "Each" in modern Irish The words for numbers in the modern Irish language change depending on the situation. Different words are used when counting numbers, things or people. The modern Irish word for four is Ceathar. Ceithre would...

Leaving aside all the moral and ethical issues around WW2, would you not be proud of the fact that it took the combined might of the USSR,USA,UK,France plus various other allies to defeat the Wehrmacht. As a fighting force it was something to be proud of (leaving aside atrocites etc.)

Our Monks like Columba, St Aidan, Columbanus etc founded many monastaries throughout Europe during the dark ages to spread Christianity e.g Iona, Lindisfarne; Annegray, Luxeuil, and Fontaines in France and Bobbio in Italy, : St. Gall in Switzerland, Disibodenberg in the Rhine Palatinate, St...

In Ireland most people would have no view on the war in Libya. While it gets almost as much news coverage as the Japan earthquake, the majority of people would tend to pay the Japanese problem much more attention. It was reported on the news about Mekel's problems in Baden-Würtemberg. In...