*Catholics Only* Any Irish Catholics here?

[JesusLovesOurLady]

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Hispanic Catholic here wondering, since this is St. Patrick's day, if there are any fellow-Catholics here of Irish descent, or of any other interesting Catholic cultural background? But please, no apostates, again this is a Catholics only thread, I only want to here from practicing Catholics.

 

[Decanus]

I'm both a British and Irish citizen, and Catholic. My Grandad came over to England from Northern Ireland and his parents fought for Irish Independence.

Hope that answers your question haha.

 

[JesusLovesOurLady]

I'm both a British and Irish citizen, and Catholic. My Grandad came over to England from Northern Ireland and his parents fought for Irish Independence.

Hope that answers your question haha.

Thanks, yeah I suspected that the vast majority of Catholics on here are of a Protestant Anglo-American background.

Your grandad fought for Irish Independence? Interesting. (Albeit, I'm well aware that the Irish War for Independence was still quite recent compared to other world events.)

 

[Michie]

@eastcoast_bsc is an Irish Catholic.

 

[Multifavs]

My mom and dad both have some Irish in them, so my brother and I do too. I'm not exactly sure how much I have, but probably not a lot. Other than that, I know I have a little bit of Native American and some from multiple European countries.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I'm not Irish, but my favorite movie is The Quiet Man.

 

[JesusLovesOurLady]

My mom and dad both have some Irish in them, so my brother and I do too. I'm not exactly sure how much I have, but probably not a lot. Other than that, I know I have a little bit of Native American and some from multiple European countries.

Interesting, on my mom's side I have Norwegian and British (possibly Scottish) ancestry. As I've mentioned several times before, my dad is Chilean, and his side of the family is Mestizo. The Mestizos are a half-native half-Spanish European peoples, so I probably have a lot of indigenous blood in me. (It would be really cool if I had some Incan ancestry in me.) My European side is also quite fascinating, we started off Basque which is a very fascinating people and language.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Irish both sides of family. Great Grand parents from Kerry and Cork. My Fathers aunt was a Mother Superior up in Maine. lol

My sisters DNA test was 99 % Irish and 1 % Scottish

I remember at catechism class we had a non-nun who started to teach and one day she tried to convince us we were Roman Catholic. We were kids and we stood up and insisted we were Irish Catholic. We went home and told our Mothers. The instructor never mentioned it again.

Cardinal Cushing was our Cardinal and he was from South Boston. No one was messing with him.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I was baptized by an Irish priest and confirmed by an Irish bishop.

 

[JesusLovesOurLady]

I remember at catechism class we had a non-nun who started to teach and one day she tried to convince us we were Roman Catholic. We were kids and we stood up and insisted we were Irish Catholic. We went home and told our Mothers. The instructor never mentioned it again.

Cardinal Cushing was our Cardinal and he was from South Boston. No one was messing with him.

 

[Tomm]

I have no Irish blood. But there are a lot of Irishmen here, there's a St Patrick's day procession every year.

 

[Decanus]

Thanks, yeah I suspected that the vast majority of Catholics on here are of a Protestant Anglo-American background.

Your grandad fought for Irish Independence? Interesting. (Albeit, I'm well aware that the Irish War for Independence was still quite recent compared to other world events.)

My background is a mix. My Dad is English and baptised Anglican (though he's also meant to have some Irish and German heritage) and my paternal grandfathers family were English Catholics.

My maternal grandmother was a convert from Anglicanism when she married my Irish Catholic grandad. It was his parents that were in the IRA (pre-troubles era) in their home county of Armagh. Always have a right giggle at the fact that my Great Nan was a gun runner because she was such a little lady.

I suspect my Grandad was trying to get away from it all. He's very secretive about his life in Ireland and only ever goes back for funerals. Makes me think there's a lot more too it. One reason could be from the Birmingham pub bombings in the 70's. When that happened, because my Grandad was Irish....well I think you know what the natives did to him when that happened.

I was raised in an Irish Catholic community in one of Englands big cities. So although i'm born and bred English, the Irish identity was a massive part of my upbringing and I guess since i'm an Irish Citizen my identity has always been split. Doesn't help when your two nationalities have been at odds with each other for centuries aha.

 

[JesusLovesOurLady]

I was raised in an Irish Catholic community in one of Englands big cities. So although i'm born and bred English, the Irish identity was a massive part of my upbringing and I guess since i'm an Irish Citizen my identity has always been split. Doesn't help when your two nationalities have been at odds with each other for centuries aha.

Yeah, guess I'm lucky I've only had small tastes of the historical enmity between Britain and Spain.

 

[Decanus]

Yeah, guess I'm lucky I've only had small tastes of the historical enmity between Britain and Spain.

Has there been much recently? I've always had very good and positive dealings with the Spanish. It's my families favourite place to go. The food, the people, the historic sites, the scenery....amazing.

I remember we were in Spain when they won the world cup and they went crazy and started giving us all free drinks. Spain will always be one of those places that holds good memories for me.

 

[JesusLovesOurLady]

Has there been much recently? I've always had very good and positive dealings with the Spanish. It's my families favourite place to go. The food, the people, the historic sites, the scenery....amazing.

I remember we were in Spain when they won the world cup and they went crazy and started giving us all free drinks. Spain will always be one of those places that holds good memories for me.

Interesting, I guess it's more Anglo-America vs Latin America now, then Britain vs Spain.

 

[Decanus]

Interesting, I guess it's more Anglo-America vs Latin America now, then Britain vs Spain.

Yeah, I definitely see more tension between Anglo-America and Latin America, for sure.

Brits are well known for our love of Spain these days.

 

[Michie]

A Reflection on Saint Patrick and the Nature of Being Irish

 

[Tomm]

Interesting, on my mom's side I have Norwegian and British (possibly Scottish) ancestry. As I've mentioned several times before, my dad is Chilean, and his side of the family is Mestizo. The Mestizos are a half-native half-Spanish European peoples, so I probably have a lot of indigenous blood in me. (It would be really cool if I had some Incan ancestry in me.) My European side is also quite fascinating, we started off Basque which is a very fascinating people and language.

Fascinating background.
I like Spanish people very much and had wished to learn Spanish (language) years ago.
I love to watch Spanish movies and used to watch South American soccer marches.

 

[Robinus]

Fr Joseph Mallin SJ, the last surviving child of an executed 1916 Rising leader has died at the age of 104.
Fr Mallin, a Jesuit priest based in Hong Kong since 1948, died on Easter Sunday.

Jesuit son of Rising leader dies in Hong Kong - The Irish Catholic

 

[JesusLovesOurLady]

Fascinating background.
I like Spanish people very much and had wished to learn Spanish (language) years ago.
I love to watch Spanish movies and used to watch South American soccer marches.

Yeah, my dad tried to teach me Spanish as a child, but it didn't really stick with me, I may try to take up learning it again. I also want to try and learn Basque, although that would be really hard considering how radically different Basque is from any other European Language. For now, I'm just going to stick with working on Ecclesial Latin.