http://www.thefuture.ie/wp-content/uplo ... reland.pdf

It's hard to believe there ever was anyone half decent in Roscommon, but here's proof...

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Could have been written yesterday...... My nine year old picked him for her History project this week so we have been reading all about him being fluent in seven languages. He would have given our Lughaidh a run for his money!

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On Facebook the other day, there was a post about Guinness having made Nazi ads for wartime export to Germany, and I made the comment that it was ironic given that they were a British company and someone jumped in to say no, they are Irish. My response was that it was founded by an Ango-Irishman during Penal times, based in London since 1932 and owned by Diageo, a British conglomerate (since 1997). Seems pretty British to me.

It seems t me that for a lot of people they seem oblivious to any Gaelic component of their ancestry and it's amazing how willfully ignorant people can be.

(As an aside, I'm not saying the Guinness family were not a decent crowd, or that Irishness can't be a broad church, which it is, but Ireland sans Gaelicness (and ignorance of the Normans, Vikings, Ulster Planter etc) is a pretty weak proposition)

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Ive known a good few people to claim Norman or viking Ancestry , even though their surnames are clearly Gaelic.
It still seems for some people at least that being of Gaelic decent has some stigma attached to it, too common.

Then when people do claim Gaelic decent they normally claim to be descended from some king or Lordly person.

Im most likely descended from some common folk/peasants which took the name of the local Gaelic ruling sept. As are the vast majority of people.

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Well that's the thing. We are all a mosaic of ancestry and archaeology and genetics and gloing back further, studies have shown that the appearance of the skin and face have changed a lot even in just a few thousand years :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25885519

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