Talk Elections

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I stumbled upon this site and it's pretty cool. I live in Ireland, but I do have a passing interest in American politics. Hopefully I will be posting here a lot!

Howdy!! hope you have fun!

Hello there Mr. Pink. Have a good time at this forum.

Greetings.

Welcome! What part of Ireland are you in?

Welcome to the boards Mr.Pink! Hope you enjoy it here.

BTW Did you by any chance get your screen name from the move "Reservior Dogs"?

Thanks.

Yes, I did get it from Reservoir Dogs. It's one of my favourite movies

At the moment Dublin

I wonder because my wifes family is from county Fermanaugh.

Oh, lovely place up north. I am not from originally from Dublin, I grew up in Waterford. I am at university here. Is your wife an Irish national or just of Irish descent?

Just Irish descent. Her family is the Maguire family. She says they can trace their family back to 600AD. She's Scot/irish actually and "Black" Irish. Do you know who the black irish are? Not sure if thats just an American term or not.

I am familiar with the term "Black Irish". It isn't in much use here though. I guess I would be considered Black Irish since I have black hair and brown eyes. I thought she would probably be Scots-Irish since her family is from N.I.

I can't remember her scottish families clan right now. Mine are from Ireland with the name MacIntee

Welcome, Mr. Pink.  Alright an acctual Irishman on the forum.  Maybe we can finally convince Dave to give us Irish avatars now.  :)  Anyway, please, stick around, check the boards and have fun.  :)

That was my assumption.  Either that, or he was gay.

75% Irish Catholic here.  My surname comes from Co. Offaly.  Most of ancestors descended from the potato famine in the late 1840s.

You ancestors and mine probably came over on the same boat.  Did they disembark in Philly?

Yes.  Settled on the banks of the Schuykill.

 What is your last name?

Or rather your "Irish" last name if it isn't the same as your acctual one.  :)

Guinan

Any McMantus's, Kelleys or McGoverns in your family?

Nope, but there was a McNamara on my mother's side.

Hmmm.  Thought I might be on to something there.  Oh, well, we are both Irish, so that alone is enough to make us family.  :)  My people were from county Cork, so we are probably not related at all, but I thought there might be a chance.

I love the talk of Ireland among the micks. :)

My mom told me the Kervin was Irish or scottish don't know with one.....

Cork's a long way from Offaly.

Kervin what type of last name is that?

No Cork that I know of.  Offaly (Kings at the time of emigartion), Laois (Queens), Mayo, and Limerick so far.

Bumped for St. Patrick's Day tomorrow.

Shame 'Mr. Pink' never stuck around.

I did some Irish avatars and posted them in the 'Atlas' board, but I'm not sure if they're good enough to be added to Dave's database.

As the subject was brought up, my understanding of the 'Black Irish' is that they were actually Spanish colonists that got shipwrecked on the Irish coasts.  They settled there and became known as the 'Black Irish' due to their Mediterranean tans and dark hair.  A friend of mine claims solid Irish lineage.  He has thick black hair, and the last name Murtha, which I'd take a guess is derived from the Spanish city of Murcia.

I'm 100% Italian and proud!  :)

whoa!  there's a mr. pink.  I just noticed this.  I meant no offense in the thread in which I referred to Mr. Pink in the "pizza" thread.  I was, of course, referring to the character played by Mr. Buscemi in Pulp Fiction.  In fact, I had no idea we had our own Mr. Pink.  welcome to the forum.   Hope it's everything you've imagined it would be.

Actually I bumped this thread a few days ago for St. Patrick's Day because Mr. Pink was Irish, and this thread was talking about Irish stuff generally.  I say 'was', because Mr. Pink only stayed for 23 posts back in June or whenever and hasn't been seen since.  Too bad, we can never have too many Irish posters on the forum.

ah, look at that.  yeah, he tuned in about a week after I did.  didn't notice him before.  too bad, we could have a nice discussion about the real Mr. Pink.

How come I've gotta be mr. Pink?  Why can't I be Mr. Yellow and he's Mr. Pink?

You're Mr. Pink!

Hey, look, its just a name.

That's easy for you to say, you're Mr. White you've got a cool sounding name.

No, I tried it before and it didn’t work! I had four guys fighting over Mr. Black!

If I were Irish, i'd get so pissed off at people whose families have been in America/Australia/Canada/wherever for generations, none of them have come back to Ireland or anything, and all of a sudden they're talking about counties and small towns and stuff.

But that's just me-i'm in an agressive mood at the moment anyway so ignore me :)

LOL, that's the same thing I was thinking.  Great film.

ironically enough, tarantino "borrowed" that idea from the 1979 "taking of the pelham 123" which was about guys who hijacked a NYC subway train. they all used names such as mr. green, mr. white, etc