The Global Irish are finding a home on the Internet

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I love Ireland. ...have been there twice and felt almost like a religious experience .....loved my grandma murphy and her stories ...loved and feared the Irish nuns and priests who taught me in school.. felt so much at home in Ireland ....had the opportunity to travel to the west... the north... the east and south and saw my great grandparents home city of cork and waterford....so moving and felt such a connection to my family...would go back in a heartbeat....I`m also an avid irish everything reader and product consumer omg qvc and st.patrick`s day omg the connemara marble jewelry....wish I could live there some day

I have to agree with the author - knowing about my Irish heritage is very important to me even if I don't know any family living there after all this time. My small town does not recognize St. Patrick's Day at all so there is no one here I can share my interest with, but on the internet I have several friends living in Ireland and I'm always happy to hear from them. To me, being Irish isn't simply being born in Ireland, it's feeling the connection to Ireland no matter how long ago the direct decendency ended. Like many thousands of people, when my plane was landing in Ireland for the first time - I truly felt as if I were coming home. Corny - absolutely! True - absolutely! I love Ireland and am passionate about it. I read everything I can get my hands on from Irish school history books to ship passenger lists and travel guides. My trip to Ireland was one of the high points of my life and I would give a lot if I could do it again.

Uisce beagha (water of life) stuff. Faith is a good thing. Good friend erin south offered little support to northern brothers thirsting to breathe free. Seemingly happy being a poodle with its head missing. George Washington would have a different view were he around to see where we've come. Without Celto Roman Patrick we'd be fully incorporated within the UK framework. His preaching made us cling to what he brought with him and stubborn to what the occupier tried to push. RC scandals are now rocking the foundation laid by Patrick but I'd imagine that his parades are necessary to add color to cities/towns across the globe. It's fun to party.

Being very interested in my Irish family history the internet has been great to "find" and keep in touch with I Irish relations. I had email from a third cousin on my Irish great grandmother's side from Wicklow Town on St. Patrick's Day, who also shares my interest in family history. Later I noted a photo of the St.Patrick's Day parade in Wicklow Town on the RTE Web site but was not able to spot my cousin or his family in this photo. Yesterday I had an email from a third cousin on my Irish great grandfathers's side from Dublin. Cousin Ruth advised me that two of her sisters were also at the Wicklow Town St. Patrick' Day parade!

Please add these corrections to my comment. "my heart to the land" etc. "contained 200 years of that heritage" etc. Having trouble with my computer. Thanks. jrsp

This truly brought my heart t the land f my grandparents' birth. My grandmother, as a young girl, also came to the USA as a domestic in the very early part of the 1900's. All she had of her family and its heritage came with her in a trunk. Her glass door hutch contained 20 years of that heritage each cup and saucer and glass with a story of its own, her pride and joy and my connection with the land. Like so many others, she was never able to go back. The legacy of her memories was passed along to me, however, the treasures from her homeland have long since disappeared, sold at auction after her death to pay for her nursing home care. Yes, we are, indeed, all members of a great family as the Kennedy quote says.

Rory, Simply brilliant article! When you quoted Kennedy as saying “whether we live in Cork or Boston, Chicago or Sydney, we are all members of a great family which is linked together by that strongest of chains -- a common past" it stuck a strong cord with me and I'm sure many around the globe.

Well put Rory.

what a wonderful letter thank you

I agree it is a wonderful article. My people came to the US in 1852 and landed at Baltiore from Liverpool. From there came to Texas with the US Army on the frontier where they were stationed in Texas where my family has stayed ever since. I was taught to be proud of my Irish heritage. My family has lived in San Antonio since 1894 but has been in Texas since 1865. The sad part is that there are no records to actually say who the parents were. Oral tradition says the great-grandmother's were from Cork and Cavan. On death certificates their father's names are given but not the mothers's and they were Michael Jennings ( Cork) daughter Anne A Jennings Kramer Parkman and Thomas McCue (McHugh Cavan) and his daughter was Kate (Katherine) McHugh Oswalt. When an uncle died a few years ago old pictures that none of the family had ever seen of the Irish side of the family taken in the early 20th century came to light. If there ever was an Irish pride it was more so after seeing those pictures.

Wow Rory, what a wonderful article. I hope you will write more I enjoy reading your words. Your description of your home in Cork gives me tingles (I wish I was there), abd you description of the events at the White House are thrilling and make me proud of my two hetitages (Irish/American). Thank-you and write again, this site NEEDS more positive pro Irish heatrwarming articles and less gossipy embarassing celebrity slop. Go raibh maith agat!