Personal Narrative: My Irish Heritage

Much to my own embarrassment, my Hispanic heritage had been a thing I hardly thought of. My Father left my family when I was young, and with him went the hopeful wisps I had of learning about myself. It’s not to say that I wasn’t aware that I was Hispanic, but rather, growing up in a mainly white household I didn’t think I had any right to claim my ethnicity. However, the more I look around me and learn about the community Hispanics have grown accustomed to, the more I find that I understand where I came from. To me, being Hispanic isn’t about what you were told when you were younger, or the traditions you grew up with. Rather, being Hispanic is about learning where you come from, and learning about those who share your same heritage. ‘Hispanic’

The Irish experience in the U.S. was harsh. They fled Ireland due to the Potato Famine, and arrived here for opportunity, and even more importantly, a better life. They were also exceedingly poor, so that being

I am a Native American born and raised in Jamestown, Virginia. It was always just my father and I, my mother passed away when I was an infant, so my father raised me to be an independent woman. My father is the head commander of the tribe. He only allowed me to go to the village near our tents. I never went further than the village, till this one day that I was feeling so curious about what was out there, so I decided to walk beyond the village to see what there is to explore.

Family of origin work begins by having an individual or couple drawing up a "Genogram," a three generational map of family relationships graphically depicting such things as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and sibling order. The rationale for working directly with patients in this manner is described by prominent family therapist John Framo. "The client, by having sessions with his or her family of origin, takes the problem to where they began, thereby making available a direct route to etiological factions. Dealing with the real external parental figures is designed to loosen the grip of the internal representatives of these figures and expose them to reality considerations and their live derivatives. Having gone backward in time, the

Out of all the topics we have discussed these last five weeks, I have to say the history of the Irish coming to America is the one that I can relate to most for many reasons. One I am an immigrant who came from Central America for the same reasons the Irish came and two I know what it is like to live in a country where hunger for my family was pretty much every single day. The Irish came with a dream at a time when America was being built. I have learned about so many injustices against the Irish. Labor abuse was horrible, but I also know that it was better maybe then what was happening in Ireland with the prosecution of their religion. With the lack of food due to the potato famine. With the hourly deaths

The Irish saw life through a peasant eyes. They went to the United States hoping to make enough money to return to Ireland and buy themselves their own land. As a result of that they could injure many negative things. There was still a group of Irish who had no intention

I am a true country southern bell from Georgia with roots that goes back to the Cherokee tribe. I am the daughter of Beanbug and Mann although they have real names where we are from we do not use them. Beanbug started off working at the chicken house but after gutting chicken for a couple of years she decided to get a degree. This is how I came to be. I come from a more rural area modern time and where I did not have to farm like my grandparents. I know who I am. I am come from a family that would cook Sunday dinner which include fried chicken, mac and cheese, collard greens, cornbread and many more food that sooth the soul. I am a special person that believed to see spirts at night that kept me up. One night I went to my grandmother bed and

Growing up with two different Heritages is like growing up in two different worlds, it was tough growing up being Native and Hispanic I would either get made fun of because I was Native or I was made fun of for being Hispanic. I guess you can say that I have somewhat of a different life, living with any Hispanic family but considering myself more Native, because just at home i just speak spanish, and eat amazing food made by my mother who isn’t even Hispanic who’s just Native American who didn’t consider herself Native American because she herself lived with my grandmother or she lived with a family friend who was Hispanic and showed her things about a culture that she didn’t know anything about.

Does your heritage affect you? Mine does. I am Irish, since my ancestors came from the Isle of Man. One of the ways my heritage affects me is food. Another one is St.Patrick’s day, and my final one is Irish landmarks.

For "old" Irish outsiders, America was a land of new opportunities. Particularly in country groups, Irish migrants were, for the most part, welcomed and they found jobs easily. A book written in 1870s by an Irish-Catholic minister empowered Irish movement by sharing the simplicity of getting land and going in the United States:

Sometimes I feel like I live in two worlds. one world or life is when I was in Puerto Rico where life was effortless and elementary,lots of leisure, and so much more fun. but i also have my world and life here in Boston where is not completely obscured. in boston it is where i am asked to identify myself. it is where people ask me what am i? i have always responded with “ i am puerto rican and black.” that sounds about right my mother is puerto rican and my father is black. most people act like it is strange for me to look and talk the way i do yet not be what they thought. in either world i have never really thought deeply about my ethnic origin because i always said i am puerto rican and black american that is it and nothing more needed to

I would be going to Scotland for a month to study neolithic remains… and to shop. Packing a week before since I am notorious for forgetting something important… I was ready. Driving to the airport in Des Moines felt like hours. I just wanted to be there already. Since I was a kid I always dreamt of going to Scotland. Going through customs, I gently kissed my mother on her cheek whispering in her ear “thank you”. Finding out seat on the plane was the easy part, the hard part would be being on a plane on and off for the next day. Stopping in Detroit, New York, London and Glasgow. Landing in Glasgow, I realized that this was where I want to live someday. Scotland was full of neolithic sites, and I could pursue my career in biological anthropology

On my father’s side of the family, we know my grandfather’s family history. My great-grandfather, Michael Carr, was from Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland. In 1920, he decided to leave Ireland because of poverty and trying to live a better life. He left Ireland and on August 2nd, 1920, he arrived by means of a direct journey by boat. He entered the United States through Ellis Island and went to Park

Ireland is a country that is rich in culture, traditions, and faith. This country has struggled with over time with famine, religious tension, and even freedom. Many individuals immigrated to America in search of a better life. The person I chose to interview family came over to the United States when Ireland was struggling with famine. They came over on a boat through New York and changed there name to make it more American. For this paper I will further discuss the Irish culture and the person I interviewed.

This essay aims to discuss the argument both for and against the claims that Irish Travellers should be recognised as an ethnic group. An ethnic group is defined as "a category of people who identify with each other based on common language, ancestral, social, cultural, or national experiences" (Bailey 2010). Currently, the Irish Traveller community is not recognised by the Irish government as an ethnic minority group. This is despite the best efforts from the government-funded non-governmental organisation Pavee Point which was established in 1985 to improve the human rights of Irish Travellers and to help bridge the economic and social inequalities between Travellers and settled people in Ireland (Pavee Point 2016). In a country which became