irish members

[cool]

Hello everybody,Just popping back in to say hello.I have been a member since 2004 and i built the first Teardrop in Ireland .I have a teardrop club and was wondering if you had any Irish people who would like to join or are thinking of building one ,they could come and join us. If any irish people living in America wants to make contact they can get us on [email protected] .I have a few pictures in my album on this site if you wish to have a look. Hope I stirred something up and we hear from you soon .

[Mightydog]

Don't let the guys from Top Gear get their hands on it!

Good to see you again. Let's see if any of your countrymen answer up!

[aggie79]

Very nice teardrop Cool! I bet you do get things kicked off in Ireland.

By the way, I am US by birth, Scottish and German by descent, but Irish at heart. It's been awhile since I visited - I believe it was 1984 or 1985 - but was the best holiday I've ever taken. County Wicklow was my favorite of all my Irish travels. I believe your album pictures shows an outing there. My wife and I hope to visit your beautiful country in a couple of years.

Take care,
Tom

[cool]

Thank You Tom, glad you enjoyed my country and my trailer.Wicklow is a special place,its about one hour from my house and I will be up there this weekend with fellow campers.We will raise a glass to you and yours around the campfire on saturday night. All the best ,John .

[nrody]

I have a wee bit o'the Irish in me. On my paternal grandmothers side we trace our ancestors to around 614 ad to the Brennon line of Irish Kings.
A bit of Scottish and German too. Paternal Grandfather arrived in Philadelphia on the 21st of September 1742

[TheresaD]

1st generation Irish here in the U.S. John. Mother is from Offaly and Dad is from Down. Myself and one of my brothers are the only ones out of the five kids that were born in the states. Everyone else is from "home". I have loads of family in Ireland. Some scattered around the Dublin and Kildare area and others in the North in Warrenpoint and Gilford. Haven't been able to get back in a couple years and miss going to visit terribly. I used to go at least once a year. I'm going to have to just book and get back. If I do I'll be looking you up!

Glad to hear you've got a teardrop group going over there. Whereabouts are ya on the Emerald Isle? Hopefully you haven't been effected by any of the flooding. I saw a bit from the RTE news Saturday night of the flooding in Dublin. Hopefully the water's gone down since then. It looked like things were a right mess.

[Maureenm]

Another one here! A few generations back with some bits of British and Czech thrown in. I've been to your beautiful country several times,about 8 years since my last trip, but I would love to back again soon.
Welcome to the forum!
Maureen

[hoytedow]

Most Americans have at least a wee bit of Irish ancestry, including me. That is a nice accomplishment to have the first Teardrop in Ireland, and a nice job you have done with it.

I second the remark about the Top Gear guys. They like to break things too much.

[cool]

Lovely to hear from you all ,I am Dublin based and also have a caravan and tour a lot of the time.But as you all know we dont get the lovely weather you fellas get,so we do a lot in the rain.Also very little bar-b-que time,a whole different ball game ,but we love it.Currenyly there are about five teardrops on the road here,we hope to hear from a few more soon.Also there is a fantastic group over in England and its doing very well,maybe a joint rally some day.Thanks and talk soon,,,Cool

[TheresaD]

If a joint rally gets organised please be sure to post it over here as soon as a date gets set. If I knew in enough time I might be able to manage a trip over for it. I would love to plan a trip back to visit with the relatives and get in a teardrop rally at the same time. Do you think anyone would hire out a td in either England or Ireland? That would be a total highlight to my holiday if I could go to a gathering with some of my neighbors from across the pond.

[Alfred]

Hi All,

My Dad always told me we were Irish, away back. I know I love the pipes and the celtic music. When I was a kid, we belonged to a church in the Tampa Bay area that was staffed by a priest from Dublin, Father John Bolger and Irish Sisters. One of the Sisters was my Godmother, Sister Kevin O'Callahan, bless her. Erin go bragh. I was looking at a book in the Barnes&Noble Bookstore the other day, with pictures from Ireland. I hope to come visit some day.

I won't be able to bring the camper though, I don't think it is sea worthy!

AL

[mezmo]

'Part Irish on my Mom's side via Canada. Supposedly a Jonathan Swift
connection somewhere way back - and also a castle somewhere. It'd be
great fun to go there and do some investigating and see if it is true or not.

Basically, mainly a combo of Irish and German heritage with some side
English and French [and Alsatian]. We joke it's a good combo as we can
enjoy Beer, Wine and Whiskey!

'Love the bagpipes/Uileanpipes [sp?] and Celtic music. [RiverDance and
Lord Of The Dance are favorite road-trip music.]

Did the last part of elementary and then middle school grades in a parochial
school run by the Irish religious order, The Sisters of Mercy.

Lastly, We had the great experience as little kids [K-1st grade ages] to
have an older retired [yikes! - he was probably my current age back
then!] neighbor of Irish-American descent, Hi Bargey, who had been a
DoughBoy in WWI, and brought back home with him an Irish war bride.
[They'd met when she and her girlfriends threw apples at him and his
buddies as they walked down a road over there when they were deployed
in Ireland.] Hi had the gift of the gab, and kept us entertained with all
sorts of stories of here and over there. But, his wife! [Sadly I can't recall
her name.], She believed in Leprechauns! And she talked to them in her
kitchen! We heard her do so with our own ears, you know! Ha! But, we
could never see them like she could!

Good luck with your efforts to get a TD Club going.

[hoytedow]

Hi All,

My Dad always told me we were Irish, away back. I know I love the pipes and the celtic music. When I was a kid, we belonged to a church in the Tampa Bay area that was staffed by a priest from Dublin, Father John Bolger and Irish Sisters. One of the Sisters was my Godmother, Sister Kevin O'Callahan, bless her. Erin go bragh. I was looking at a book in the Barnes&Noble Bookstore the other day, with pictures from Ireland. I hope to come visit some day.

I won't be able to bring the camper though, I don't think it is sea worthy!

AL

Have you read "How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill?

[Alfred]

Have you read "How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill?

Hey Hoytedow,

No, I have not read that one yet - But I just read the review and some of the sample pages at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Saved-Civil ... 911&sr=8-1
It looks great!

I've got a few books on my shelf now, trying to get caught up (recently bought Cold Mountain, was given Master and Commander, still trying to get through the Age of Wonder/How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science). And I'm still only about 1/2way through Shelby Foote's civil war anthology.

But the Cahill book looks like one I would thoroughly enjoy reading. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

I read Angela's Ashes a few years ago, which I thought was a great book, but I know some of my Irish friends didn't care for it as much.

AL

[Alfred]

Hey, just an FYI - I bought "How the Irish Saved Civilization" over the weekend at a local used bookstore - Started reading it yesterday - Its great! A real page turner!

AL