Irish genealogical site unearths Walt Disney’s Irish roots

If it ain't Sean FitzGearailt-O'Cinneide (John Fitzgerald-Kennedy, it's Ronald O Reagain/Reagan. If it's not Barack O'Bama, it's Muhammad Mac Ali. Jeez guys, let's cut the crap! Now you're telling me Walt O'Disney's people were from Tourmevara. So much for Micheal O'Locha/Mickey Mouse agus/and Daithi Lacha/Donald Duck. Any relationship between Ronald and Donald, (or Big Mac's and Peiking Duck.

The Disney's were believed to have migrated to England with William the Conqueror in the 1066 Norman Conquest. Then over 600 years later after the War of Three Kings (King William III v James II)the family moved to Ireland, presumably as part of the Protestant ascendancy.

A complex man, to be sure! I'm not so sure Walt Disney would be so happy with the way the corporations have imposed their matrix world on society, today - since it was made possible due to the paranoia filled schemes of men such as McCarthy and Reagan. His cartoons and movies were fantastic!

With all due respects to Cliona Weldon and my friend Pat Nolan, the 'discovery' was made more than five years ago by hard-working American amateur genealogists, including Jim Fitzgerald, who clearly located Arundel Elias (b.1802?) at Sweethill, Clone, Co. Kilkenny (otherwise or later Knockaunour or Beech Hill), off the road between Ballyragget and Freshford and connected him with his father Kepple (b. 1776?) of the same location, and his grandfather Robert (b.1750?),also of this location but who is buried in Clonmelsh, Co. Carlow and probably came from there. Arundel Elias married Maria Swan after emigrating to Canada; his brothers Kepple and Henry seemingly stayed in Ireland and held lands around the Ballyragget area. The Lodge family latter owned the Beech Hill property.

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For someone who made humorous cartoons, Disney was a miserable human being: violently anti-union, anti-Catholic, a rabid (if inaccurate, smearing innocent union organizers) anti-communist during the McCarthy era and an especially nasty anti-Semite. Must we claim him as one of us?

Of course he is Irish -his main character is Mickey!

Rest in Peace Mr. Disney. You did this Irish proud, and gave a generation of children "magic" in their childhoods.