A Reddit user has detailed their eye-opening discovery after using the popular family heritage service, Ancestry DNA, which uncovered unexpected truths about their ethnic background. Posting their ...
You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. When I visited Ireland for the first time, I was a 20-year-old student who was far more focused on ...
It seems every American I meet claims to be Irish. Not just in ancestry, but in spirit. Some insist their great-great-grandmother left Cork with nothing but a shawl and a dream; others claim a ...
I first got to call myself Irish at 30,000 feet over the English Channel. It was the summer of 1984. On that Amsterdam to Dublin flight, my Egyptian seat mate, en route from Cairo, started to make ...
The BBC broadcaster on how Brexit sent her searching for her Irish roots, reporting the Troubles in Belfast, and the ‘joy and ...
Most of my ancestors came to this country from Ireland. Still, I've never felt particularly Irish — at least not the kind of Irish that's celebrated on St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. I've never felt ...
“You’re Irish, and don’t let anyone tell you, you’re not!” My Irish aunt Johanna, who welcomed us with open arms when we came from Japan, was trying to help me understand who I was and where I fit in ...
32 million US residents claim Irish descent—I am one of them, but do I consider myself Irish American? I answered this question after I read Jay P. Dolan’s history book "The Irish Americans" (2008) ...