Irish Catholics!

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Check in here please? Where’d you come from? I’m from the North and proud of it. I spent part of my childhood in a monastery in Northern Scotland. I came over to the States when I was a teenager with my mum who was born in Chicago and was Italian. I ended up in a Catholic School in the midwest USA until I graduated, then went on to secular university.

I’m fiercly proud of my Irish roots. Are there any other Irish Catholics here? I truly believe we are our own proud breed!
 
I’m of Irish descent (with some Bavarian and even - gasp - a northern German, though he converted to Catholicism :D).

IIRC the two main families are Kelly and Birmingham (my last name is Bartels, which is Bavarian). There are a lot of neat family legends - though I’m not sure how true they are. For example, the Birminghams were a Norman family who came over with William the Conqueror (specifically Robert de Birmingham); when the British invaded, the Birminghams refused to convert and thus lost all their holdings. My family is from Buffalo NY; they still preserve some aspects of the Irish dialect, which I find really neat (even my mom to this day says “I’m gonna cook the dinner”).

I’m proud of my heritage. Yay for the Irish! Yay for St. Patrick! Yay for Catholicism! :irish3:
 
I’m originally from NY. Both of my Grandfathers are straight from Ireland, County Gallway on my Fathers side. Haven’t been able to track on my mothers side. I also have German(mothers) and Italian(fathers).
 
My people are the Masons, who came from England more than 500 years ago. The stayed in Ireland until nearly the turn of the 20th century when they came over to Chicago. That is where my whole family lives now except a few of us. The Mason name may have been English in origin, but enough generations of Irish lived it to make it Irish, and it still lives on to this day!
 
Hello! Red hand of O’Neil…here. Anybody wanna fight? :nunchuk:Just kidding. However, feel free to bow before me…:whistle:
 
grandparents and other relatives came from Ireland - both from the north and south. My husband is from Belfast. Does that count?:irish2:
 
Cork and Limmerick here from before Black '47. Married in St. Louis, Mo. in 1845 and moved to New Orleans that year. Been there ever since.

I have a friend who is a genuine Scot bard. He calls me a mongrel Celt. And so I am for I am Irish, Scot, and Breton French. My family kept the traditions of 19th century Ireland. We stopped the clocks at the hour of a relative’s death and covered the mirrors in black crepe (so that the dead would not see their reflection). . I had a big fight with my wife of 31 years because she wanted to be married at 10 and I insisted that we had to be married at 10:30 so that the minute hand would be “sweeping up” for good luck. We also did things like going into formal mourning when my granmother died in 1965. No TV, no entertainment, for a solid month.
 
My great great grandfather’s family were… well:blushing:Irish protestants. He came over here and was converted while he was in the civil war. He went back to visit and was sleeping on the couch when his rosary fell out of his pocket. They disowned him. Well enough family history… (the german side is more interesting, historically):irish3::irish3::irish3:
 
My husband and I just had a new baby in June and she looks just like me - flaming red Irish hair like her mama! We were so tickled by that. She’s my ginger baby. My incredible gift from God. 🙂
 
ZoeBlue said:
My husband and I just had a new baby in June and she looks just like me - flaming red Irish hair like her mama! We were so tickled by that. She’s my ginger baby. My incredible gift from God. 🙂
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I’ll bet she has a temper…
 
US born, with Irish parents, a mother from Sligo and and a father from Co. Down.

Growing up, I spent my summers in Mayo 👍
 
Ok. My family a couple generations back came over to the US from County Tipperary. Oh aaand I’m getting ready to marry into another Irish family who’ve settled in the Northern UK. 🙂

Have any of you US Irish Catholics ever been to Ireland? If so please share what it was like, and where you went. I’m hoping to visit next year, can’t wait to see all that green. 😃
 
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Ok. My family a couple generations back came over to the US from County Tipperary. Oh aaand I’m getting ready to marry into another Irish family who’ve settled in the Northern UK. 🙂

Have any of you US Irish Catholics ever been to Ireland? If so please share what it was like, and where you went. I’m hoping to visit next year, can’t wait to see all that green. 😃
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I lived there when I was young. I was 13 the last time I was there I believe. I want to go again as an adult but it’s expensive on us and my main priority is to see the Vatican City (since I haven’t seen it) before Ireland.
 
ac_claire said:
Have any of you US Irish Catholics ever been to Ireland?
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Just about every summer from when I was a toddler to my high school years. The majority of my relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins etc…) are there.

After school let out for the summer, my mother would take the kids and we would go to Ireland. We would then be dispersed among the various family members.

My favorite place to go was my Aunt’s dairy farm near Ballina, Co. Mayo. I also spend time with grandparents in Sligo. I learned to drive on a tractor, and on the left side of the road 🙂

My wife and I spend part of our honeymoon there, doing a B&B tour, and I’ve taken the kids over a few times, I think we’ll do it again in 2011.

Mostly back to the West, in Sligo, with visits to an uncle in Offaly and cousins in Galway, and Roscommon. I’ve got a son named Kieran, so we’ll also go back to Clonmacnoise, so he can see St. Kieran’s monastary again.

It’s a lot more expensive to go now, especially the airfare. Back when I was growing up, a number of airlines flying to Europe stopped at Shannon to refuel. So you could generally get a cheap flight to Shannon, especially on Aeroflot out of Chigago.

Now it’s not quite that easy, and thus why we have to save up for several years between trips.
 
yes, the airfare is quite a bit of money. I paid $600 to go from Philadelphia to Belfast back in april. But, tickets are more money to go from PA to Los Angeles. And the exchange rate isn’t that great either. If any of you get to go, I highly recommend going to see the Knock Shrine. It’s a beautiful, peaceful place. I scattered some of my husband’s ashes there. The cliffs of mohr are still a site to see, as is giant’s causeway.
 
I’m an Irish Catholic, but you’d never guess from looking at me! I’m half Irish, half Filipino. Last name is O’Brien and our family is originally from Dublin but have been in the U.S. since the mid to early 1800s. Even though I’m half Asian most people immediately think I’m Mexican due to my appearance. Most half Filipino, half white folks do indeed look Hispanic…
 
I’m Irish Catholic. From Mitchellstown I think. O’Beara and O’Neill

Been to Ireland as a child but haven’t been back as an adult. Still have family there but I personally don’t keep in touch with them. Would love to go there now that I’m older and understand more of my heritage.

Am also Italian and Sicilian.
 
Grandma was from the County Cork, I was supposed to visit Ireland in may for two weeks, but got called up for active duty to Iraq - here now. I spent two years in Kosovo working with the Irish Defence Forces, good group of lads. We were not permitted to drink in Kosovo either, so we spent our Saturday night as Camp Clarke with them and shared a pint and a few songs. Sunday morning we’d go to Mass on the camp and then to dinner… great times!
 
I’m an Irish-Scot, Glasgow born and raised. Paternal grandfather’s parents came over from Cork and my paternal grandmother’s family is Scottish Catholic. Maternal grandmother’s father was from Sligo and mother from Roscommon. Maternal grandfather is from Belfast City. My mother’s adoptive mother is from a Scoto-Flemish Catholic family, and my mother’s adoptive father was born in Galway City, lived in New Jersey U.S for a while before his family came to Scotland.

Although I am an Irish-Scot I identify more with my Irish heritage.

Yours sincerely,
Murphy Bhoy.
 
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