Irish people why do you flip flop about Irish Americans when it serves your pride or self-interest?
I mean if I go to Ireland right now I’ll and tell people I’m Irish, I’ll get the typical witty response,"me arse you are, and I’m the Emperor of Offaly". Even though I have citizenship through my grandparents. Yet if someone prosperous or well known such as Barack Obama and JFK with great-great grandparents and the like, say they’re Irish nothing is said about it wtf? Barack Obama is not even 1/32 Irish, and I’m not Irish?
To be fair..I don’t think that’s true. The IRish believe that too be Irish, you must be born and bread here.
So many americans claim to be Irish when they know nothing about the Irish culture, and are only Irish by way of their grandparents or great grandparents.
If you have a good knowledge on the country, the history, and are honest about your ties to Ireland, then there should be no bad feelings towards you.
To be fair..I don’t think that’s true. The IRish believe that too be Irish, you must be born and bread here.
So many americans claim to be Irish when they know nothing about the Irish culture, and are only Irish by way of their grandparents or great grandparents.
If you have a good knowledge on the country, the history, and are honest about your ties to Ireland, then there should be no bad feelings towards you.
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The Irish hate when an American claims that they’re "Irish-American", as they feel as though its a sleight of their culture. Not ever realizing that Irish-American is actually quite different from being "Irish". We’re not Irish. We’re Irish-American. And that entails a completely and totally different history than what you have in mind. Irish-Americans fought in the American Civil War, and did so with honor for the Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Brigade_%28U.S.%29
Irish Units of the Confederate States of America too.
* 10th Tennessee Infantry (Sons of Erin)
* 1st Irish Volunteers
* Company E, 33rd Infantry, Stonewall Brigade (The Emerald Guards)
* Louisiana Tigers
* McMillan Guards of 24th Georgian Regiment
* Davis Guard, First Texas Heavy Artillery
Those are Irish-Americans as well.
The modern day Irish in Ireland have no connection to this. The Irish didn’t fight. Irish-Americans fought.
We have Irish blood in our veins, as well as American. And you can’t get better than that. There’s a huge difference. Understand it. Know it. And stop being so pissed off at the notion that Irish-Americans are claiming Irish heritage. We aren’t. We’re claiming something else. Irish-American. And may I say, something much better. We munch on hamburgers with hot dogs with colcannon and boxty with the best of them, because we can.
Céad Míle Fáilte!
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