The wearin' o' the . . . white?

[jhetley]

I don't think this is what most people visualize for St. Paddy's Day.

But I have my orange shirt on.

(Look, if my grandfather married a lapsed Mennonite, I suspect the Irish branch of my ancestry wasn't Catholic.)

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

My great-uncle Dan married a Mormon in Park City, Utah. He'd been raised Catholic in Ireland but became thoroughly disgusted with all men of the cloth in America. He spent the rest of his life as a confirmed agnostic, going to the Odd Fellow's hall on Sundays.

[wolfette]

going over the family papers, I find I have a lot of Irish ancesters, and not that far back - in fact at the great-grandparent level both sides of the family are Irish.

And they're from both sides of the Irish divide too!

[prophet-marcus.livejournal.com]

My ex-wife would go ballistic. She was raised to be a radically ardent Irish nationalist.

That was before she found out who her natural father really was and discovered that she was in fact almost half English herself. So she dragged out an obscure Passamaquoddy ancestress on that side and decided she's Native American.

Who cares? The joy of being a mongrel is being able to pick and choose which heritage to celebrate - thus saith the Quebecois-Acadian-Irish-English-Mi'qmac. I can wear what I want.