Oh yeah? Well mine were betraying the United Irishmen (this is true: “John the Turncoat” is a direct ancestor of mine).
for my own sanity, I’m not going to click on Orangenet 
Must. Fight. Urge.
Ok, the word “root” and “Irish(man)” didn’t go unnoticed.
Har har har.
For you then, Twisty:
That was my great-great-great grandfather. So proud.
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.
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
I suppose that this is a good time to admit that Lord Edward Carson is a close relative.
(By Marriage)
SPLITTER 