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100 % Irish here too, although I married an Italian/South American guy,
so I consider myself a little Italian ,by injection (tee-hee)
Anyway both Mom and Dad's family are from Ireland I guess I am third generation....we tried to do one of those family searches but came up with adoptions and "Mother's being known as Sisters....and Grandmothers being Mothers "in that Famous Irish tradition, so we kind of got lost in the paperwork.
But as far as we can tell our family names go back to Crofton, Sweeney
Feeley, Costello- (pronounced the Irish way of course!) Cus-talow...O'Connor, Leonard, Hart and Sullivan....

So I will be eating a delicious Salmon with Leaks and a tarragon sauce- a cloeslaw made with carrots, green onions and a few slices of red cabbage- homemade Irish soda bread and some Bushmills Whiskey, to wash it down

"And I won't be havin any ice in my whiskey- When I want water, I 'll be drinkin water, but when I be drinkin whiskey, it's just the whiskey in the glass...if you please"
to quote Mickaleen- from The Quiet Man movie ...John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara classic flick..perfect movie for St. Patricks day---

Love to all and enjoy the day
Ms. O' eclipse