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[classic33]

Extracts from an Irish Times article in Nov 2020:-


....The successful Democratic candidate can trace his Irish roots back to both the Blewitts from Co Mayo and the Finnegans from Co Louth. .......


.....Biden’s other great-great grandfather was Owen Finnegan, from the Cooley Peninsula, Co Louth. He married Jean Boyle in 1839. The first four children were born there, including James Finnegan in 1840, Biden’s great grandfather.

The family moved to America in the late 1840s and settled in Seneca, New York.....

Did Trump ever claim Irish ancestry?
Seems to be a familiar thing amongst US presidents.

From Blewit and Finnegan to Biden.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Did Trump ever claim Irish ancestry?
Seems to be a familiar thing amongst US presidents.

From Blewit and Finnegan to Biden.

Dutch (father) Scots (mother)

Boing!

 

[classic33]

Dutch (father) Scots (mother)

Boing!

Odd in a sense. Nearly every one since Kennedy, has claimed Irish ancestry.

Zebedee has called I see.

 

[classic33]

"Donald Trump's paternal ancestry is traceable to Bobenheim am Berg, a village in the Palatinate, Germany, in the 18th century. Johann Trump, born in Bobenheim in 1789, moved to the nearby village of Kallstadt where his grandson, Friedrich Trump, the grandfather of Donald Trump, was born in 1869."

 

[Blue]

Did Trump ever claim Irish ancestry?
Seems to be a familiar thing amongst US presidents.

From Blewit and Finnegan to Biden.

As the saying goes, "If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough".

 

[Blue]

'Morning all

It seemed to rain all night but it's sunny and dry this morning.

I got the asbestos survey in and nothing found so we're good to go on the refurb

 

[classic33]

As the saying goes, "If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough".

Owdo

Seems he wasn't lucky.

 

[classic33]

'Morning all

It seemed to rain all night but it's sunny and dry this morning.

I got the asbestos survey in and nothing found so we're good to go on the refurb

Waiting slowed you down.

Pace yerssen, you'll have nowt to do later. Or you'll get ahead of yerssen and be looking back at stuff you've yet to do.

 

[Blue]

Owdo

Seems he wasn't lucky.

We all get our share of what seems like bad luck.

I remember sitting in the halls of the High Courts in Belfast many years ago and having a chat with a psychiatrist who was an expert witness in a case I was managing. We were discussing the concept of 'luck' and the learned gentleman's opinion was that there was no such thing as 'luck' in the accepted form of a thing of chance. He postulated that people 'make' their own luck. I suppose he was straying into the realms of the discussion of 'free will' but I always thought he had a point - it's what motivates me to take action.

 

[classic33]

We all get our share of what seems like bad luck.

I remember sitting in the halls of the High Courts in Belfast many years ago and having a chat with a psychiatrist who was an expert witness in a case I was managing. We were discussing the concept of 'luck' and the learned gentleman's opinion was that there was no such thing as 'luck' in the accepted form of a thing of chance. He postulated that people 'make' their own luck. I suppose he was straying into the realms of the discussion of 'free will' but I always thought he had a point - it's what motivates me to take action.

You had me wondering what you'd been up to when I read the bit in bold.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Good whatevetimeofdayitis

Odd in a sense. Nearly every one since Kennedy, has claimed Irish ancestry.

Zebedee has called I see.

Anything to grab the huge East Coast votes..
You just don't offend certain groups of folks over there, you culture them for your political ends.
or sorry, to make your money

 

[classic33]

Good whatevetimeofdayitis

Anything to grab the huge East Coast votes..
You just don't offend certain groups of folks over there, you culture them for your political ends.
or sorry, to make your money

If I didn't know better, I'd say you were being slightly cynical.
You'd never do/be that, would you.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

If I didn't know better, I'd say you were being slightly cynical.
You'd never do/be that, would you.

Nah, it's obvious..
If in NY, work the Irish and the Israeli circuit, Beantown is so obvious and say California and Florida, you know who to work...
not cynical at all, cylindrical ? Aye

 

[classic33]

Nah, it's obvious..
If in NY, work the Irish and the Israeli circuit, Beantown is so obvious and say California and Florida, you know who to work...
not cynical at all, cylindrical ? Aye

You reckon that's why the last one didn't last, no Irish roots.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Time for the post evening meal cup of tea...