amberdreams | Friday meme (Reply)

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1. Are you Irish?

Not for several generations. I was always told my Granddad's family came over from Ireland in the late 1900s but when I did a bit of family history research it was rather hard to track his side back, because they were all called John and kept spelling their surname in different ways from one census to the next. On my Dad's side are Byrnes and Carrolls (the latter being generally from the Cork area), and on my Mum's side there are Healeys (also Irish) but the farthest relatives I managed to trace were firmly English - a blacksmith on a country estate in Surrey. I do have some distant cousins in Ireland but haven't had any contact with them since I was a wee child. But nearly everyone in Liverpool has some sort of Irish connection.

2. Do you like Guinness?

I assume not, I've never tried it because I don't like the taste of alcohol. Yeah, I'm a weirdo, but very happy about it.

3. Do you know what the symbol of Ireland is?

Republic's the harp, the North is the red hand. As an aside, the Byrne's have three white hands on our coat of arms.

4. Have you ever watched Father Ted?

Is the Pope Catholic?

5. Do you believe in leprechauns?
Only in the company of Winchesters.