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Originally posted by aggieAXO
everyone thinks I am irish b/c I have redhair/blue eyes and very pale skin.
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You know, most Irish people don't look like the stereotype--they have pale freckled skin and blue eyes, but most have dark hair instead of red. I only met two redheads the entire time I was there, and everyone called them "ginger ballicks!"
My dad's family is mostly Irish (from Cork, to be exact), but I don't know very many of them. I guess I'm closer with my mom's side. I'm an eleventh-generation American going by my mom's mother's family, as the first one came here from Wales and bought land in Delaware in 1704. (BTW, I love history and geneology--is anyone else a dork like that?
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