RugbyRebels

So I always thought my ancestry was solid English/Cornish/Scots. Now I find out that my father’s maternal grandmother was descended from some chancer who snuck in from County Cavan in 1869 and his wife who was shipped out from Sligo in 1881.

This might cause me to reassess the lower reaches of my Who To Support Against Whom Test Match Matrix.

Cavan and Sligo - I didn't think we let any one out of either of them.

Cavan is famous for being the only county in Ireland which has never produced anyone famous, though Barry McGuigan was born next door in Clones.

Lots of famous Yeats's, film directors and Westlife come from Sligo but none of them would ever have admitted it. Most people in Ireland think that Sligo is somewhere in Iceland.

19th C Irish immigrants to NZ didn’t tend to be “let out.” They generally “got out” just ahead of being shipped to Australia.

so what your saying is that owing to an ancestor who joined the wrong queue at Cobh, you now prefer Tayto to Walkers

Shinner or nordie tayto's?

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Cavan and Sligo - I didn't think we let any one out of either of them.

Cavan is famous for being the only county in Ireland which has never produced anyone famous, though Barry McGuigan was born next door in Clones.

Lots of famous Yeats's, film directors and Westlife come from Sligo but none of them would ever have admitted it. Most people in Ireland think that Sligo is somewhere in Iceland.

Clones home of Mcguigan, McGuinness and Thomas Bracken Lizard

BBD wrote:so what your saying is that owing to an ancestor who joined the wrong queue at Cobh, you now prefer Tayto to Walkers

How the fuck is a normal person expected to make sense of this? Pull your head in man.

Think yerself lucky.

Cobh was Queenstown when Liz's da's ma's gran and granda were being transported; no doubt for filching the very spuds whose ancestors go into Tayto cheese n onion today.

I was hoping for a decent Cornish pasty recipe.

kk67 wrote:I was hoping for a decent Cornish pasty recipe.

Leinster thread, search under "couscous and kale"

PO-TAY-TOE.

You crazy Irish and your dirty cracks.

Ya should've been with us on the Isle of Man. It was 90.

Just reading where this threads gone. Can you get Oirish ancestry annulled or something?

We'd have to check the constitution, but I'm sure its worse than divorce or abortion.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:We'd have to check the constitution, but I'm sure its worse than divorce or abortion.

Checking your constitution does that involve assessing how bad the first shit of the day is the morning after the all dayer before?

Lizard wrote:Just reading where this threads gone. Can you get Oirish ancestry annulled or something?

You could ask the EU for a backstop.

Backstops?

Couscous?

Someone will be dredging up Windsocks and Betty Stove’s blurt if we’re not careful.

I'll not hear one bad word against dear aul' Betty Stove - a fine figure of a woman as there ever was!

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Backstops?

Couscous?

Someone will be dredging up Windsocks and Betty Stove’s blurt if we’re not careful.

FFS don't mention the Gare du Nord or the Russian navy. You might get away with it, but unlikeley.

ROG v Humph

lets thrash this one out

come on, for auld times sake

BBD wrote:ROG v Humph

lets thrash this one out

come on, for auld times sake

No, no, no. Tony Ward v Ollie Campbell, for even aulder times sake!

wheres Tony Wards video eh????

Who needs a video of the grand Master?

The Yakger? Not one single millimetre of video footage exists, yet can anyone deny that it is definitively the most dangerous animal that ever walked the planet.

Does 12 years count as Irish ancestory...?.