# Irish Dopers: Post about your roots here!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 6, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998 "2002-12-06T19:56:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/41 "2002-12-09T14:07:32Z")

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Oh yeah? Well mine were [betraying the United Irishmen](http://www.orangenet.org/lol1035.htm) (this is true: “John the Turncoat” is a direct ancestor of mine).

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/42 "2002-12-09T14:12:56Z")

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for my own sanity, I’m not going to click on Orangenet 😉

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**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/43 "2002-12-09T14:13:30Z")

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Must. Fight. Urge.

Ok, the word “root” and “Irish(man)” didn’t go unnoticed.

Har har har.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/44 "2002-12-09T14:17:00Z")

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For you then, **Twisty** :

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> John Andrews along with other prominent people, sided with the United Irishmen movement of 1791, but on hearing it advocated revolution on French lines, John Andrews withdrew.\_ By doing so earned the nickname “turncoat” by his less wealthy neighbours.

That was my great-great-great grandfather. _So proud_. 😉

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**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/45 "2002-12-09T17:02:16Z")

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My great grand parents left Ireland during the famine and settled in Scotland for a time before emigrating to Canada. If my great grandfather hadn’t been needed to fight in World War 1 they might have sailed for Halifax sooner than they did.

My grandmother and her brothers used to jokingly argue if they were really Scottish or Irish being that they were all born in Campbelltown, Scotland and had belonged to the Campbell clan for many generations.

I figure they got the best of both worlds and growing up as I did I started speaking with a lilt and a roll to my tongue.

I’m a Canadian but I shant forget where and whom I came from.

It would be a dishonour to their memory.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/46 "2002-12-09T17:27:42Z")

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My mother says that there’s a bit of Italian somewhere along her line but other than that possibility I’m all Irish. Born 'n bred on the olde sod

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**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/47 "2002-12-09T17:37:26Z")

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I suppose that this is a good time to admit that Lord Edward Carson is a close relative.

(By Marriage)

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-dopers-post-about-your-roots-here/140998/48 "2002-12-10T10:25:12Z")

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SPLITTER 😃

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