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Of course everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day! But are you Irish only on St. Patrick's Day?
I am not Irish at all - but dh is half Irish - so maybe I'm Irish by marriage? 
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Well, our parish is St. Patrick's and we have many friends who are Irish, so we live vicariously through them occasionally. But, alas, we are only German, and I'm not sure that my beer drinking husband cares very much for Guiness, at that, lol. So, aside from the Irish coffee that is the winter evening specialty of one very Irish friend, today is the day!
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We're always partly Irish. My husband and children are more Irish than me. Happy St. Patick's Day!
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My husband and I each have an Irish grandmother, so we're all 1/4 Irish all the time here!
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at 1:30 today when we're going to my sister's house to watch Darby O'Gill and the Little People 
Though my grammy thought it possible that we have a pinch of Irish in us from the distant past.
And of course tonight when we have the corned beef colcannon and soda bread
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All the time
My father was born and raised in Eire, as were my mother's parents. My husband isn't Irish at all, but I think he identifies more with Irish than anything else. He grew up somewhere where ethnic/cultural identity was not thought about at all...
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I'm a smidgen Irish from my grandfather who immigrated from England in early 1900's. And an even tinier smidgen from my maternal grandfather's side, but that was way, way long ago.
hylabrook1 wrote:
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Oh, I like that. Irish by marriage.  I guess that I am Polish by marriage! Dh is 100% Polish, and I have no Polish blood that I am aware of, but I have picked up many Polish recipes, phrases, and traditions in the past almost 26 years of marriage! So, your dh's Irishness has probably rubbed off a bit on you too, right?
I've just finished baking our Irish soda bread and will be getting my potato soup going (I can't eat any beef.) And we'll be watching "The Quiet Man" this evening, after watching St. Patrick videos this am (the CCC one and the Veggie Tale one.)
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My dh is hald french and then swedish/british so the only Irish influence is from my side . It is difficult for me to get into the irish thing because it is on my estranged fathers side his mum my gramma was full blodded irish . I found I could connect to my irish side via the celtic Christanity roots . It really opened up doors for me and I find it is good blend with the aboriginal culture as well .
I am making my gramma's cloverleaf buns for supper you know the ones that are in 3 sections  yum yum white buns & then a sausage cabbage stew with potatoes of course . I'm not eating meat all of lent though so not sure what I'll eat. as for dessert I absolutely cannot stand the thought of eating a fake green anything , well aside from jello so I'm thinking maybe just a fruit cake . irish dessert isn't something I've explored before .
I bought some green hats & wigs at the dollar store and have our ST.Patrcik books on the table . Oh and I placed my great grandmother's pink shamrock as a center piece . what is funny is I was introduced to the irish by the Lebanese side of the family far more then my irish side when my great grandmaother came here at 15yo her first job was being the maid to a wealthy Irish family so she was very influenced by them and even named my aunt Pansy after the wife . I was also named after aa big stout old Irish lady Roxie Robertson .I guess her dh was Scottish
anyway I'm trying maybe next yr. I'll be more organized .
ds15 is also in a faze he wants to learn how to make beer using birch sap , maybe it is his Irish side coming out
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stacykay wrote:
watching St. Patrick videos this am (the CCC one and the Veggie Tale one.)
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We watched the Veggie Tales one this morning, and plan to watch the CCC one tonight!
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No clue. Might be some way way way back. But its more likely Scottish than Irish. And I know that there is tons of German, French, and English...
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Half Italian, half mixed blood (mostly German and English). Actually, I usually refer to myself as half Italian, half Midwestern. But there might be a smidge of Irish in there somewhere.
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I'm 1/8 Irish by blood, and dh is about the same amount of Scotch-Irish (Nova Scotia was first settled by the French, who became the Acadians/Cajuns, and when the British evicted them, a huge wave of Northern Irishmen of Scottish descent emigrated to NS, among them dh's ancestor - making dh also 1/8 Irish).
However...!!!
I spent a semester attending a Catholic girls' high school near Dublin (in the town where Bono and Enya now live) and immersing myself in Irish culture.
And, of course, my dd is an Irish step dancer (and musician, she announced today, and by the way could I find the guitar chords for "Bag of Spuds"?), and so we are all Irish, all the time around here, especially this week. Today she danced at two different senior centers - these are my favorite dance-outs because the older people just love seeing children and teens dance!
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I am red-headed, green-eyed, and pale... I claim my Irish heritage with each layer of SPF. :)
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I am not Irish at all- 1/2 German 1/2 Saxon. But my dh is at least 1/4, if not more, Irish.
This is a bit disgusting I know- but I get my kids Lucky Charms to eat every St. Patrick's Day! 
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Hey, Kristie! We do the Lucky Charms also. It's the only day of the year we ever buy sugary cereal, so they look forward to it with glee.
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My husband and I are both about 50% Irish...one of my great great great grandmas came over from Ireland, her name was “Ettie Finn.” With two red heads (with red beards when they don’t shave ) my husband’s red beard....and all of us with tempers and opinions to match....oh, Honey, we are Irish every single day!!!
I had a very long day at our medical center with my two youngest yesterday, six hours of driving.....and I got home exhausted...and declared it a left over day for dinner. I saw the corned beef in the fridge and felt like a total loser I didn’t get it in pot on time. Oh well....we’ll extend our celebration to this weekend and eat it Saturday.
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My dh's family is 100% Polish. I'm mostly German, some French and one Irish great grandmother.
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