Liverpool Family Ties: The Irish Connection

Liverpool Family Ties: The Irish Connection. Filmed and made by Liverpool based artists and oral historians, John J. Campbell and Moira Kenny, The Sound Agents.
Liverpool Irish Festival commissioned The Sound Agents to document and celebrate dual-heritage stories, told by women living in Liverpool, as part of their In:Visible Women project. The film is funded by the Irish Embassy, and forms part of the national Lá Fhéile Bríde programme.
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[@merseydave1]

Two quotes come to my mind of my Great City ... "The Pool of Life" and "A World in One City" ... I am proud of our integrated welcoming people and place ... I will never leave!.

[@TerryGrahamx1b]

From the capital of Ireland myself ( Liverpool ) a really nice video.

[@hughneek12]

There is a lot of English blood in Dublin as well, going way back. There must have been lots of toing and froing and intermarriage between Liverpool and Dublin over the centuries.

[@scouser2010ify]

I’m Italian Spanish British Liverpool really is a melting pot of all cultures and creeds I think that’s why as a city in itself it’s always been so far ahead of its time

[@AidanEyewitness]

This is excellent, fascinating testimonies. Stirring words “I am mixed race, from two strong cultures, Irish and African”. Liverpool is strong, thanks to the mix of cultures.

[@churchofpos2279]

My grandparents were from Dublin and came to Liverpool. They raised their family there. Most of the children immigrated to the US in the 1960's.

[@ciarancummins5510]

Really enjoyed this post. Thank you for putting it together.

[@erincaitlin1655]

Very touching and authentic.🤗

[@mardicole4202]

I was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in a rural community outside of the city. On my mum's side we are Scottish, Irish and Swiss. On my dad's side we are Dutch and British. The rural community was mostly Protestant with a smattering of Catholic. I never saw another ethnicity until I was 16 years old when a black brother and sister started to attend my high school. I never heard anything derogatory said about them and they were welcomed by all. I fell in love with a scouser with a Scottish and Danish ancestry. His upbringing was so different from mine. As he likes to tell it his schools were like the United Nations as is mentioned here in this video.

[@wmr9019]

I am a real mongrel, my great granny was from Belfast she was a maid in service in Pembrokeshire and married a Welsh Man, great great granny was from Cork she married a Scotsman from Dundee , he was a shipping manager in Ellermans shipping company, granny ran the Parrot pub in Scottie road , and that's just on my father's side of FAMILY RIP TO ALL 💖

[@KPP365]

I am Irish.Welsh,Swedish and English. I was born in Liverpool. I am 76% Celtic

[@DudeSilad]

My ancestors came from Ireland a thousand years ago after a soldier who fought on the side of William The Conqueror was given land in what is now Hale Village. My Dad's side came from Ireland about 200 years ago so any Irish heritage I feel is pretty watered down. No doubt if I took a DNA test, it would show up as having a strong Irish taint. My mothers side came from a village in the midlands so I'm pretty much solid English in my blood. No doubt Scandinavian would show up somewhere on a DNA test as most of us with Irish ancestry are descended from the Vikings. The viking also had a stronghold in on Merseyside.

[@noelter]

Very interesting and informative article.

[@antonywalker3582]

My grandad came here from Belfast he an my granma had a shop in Richmond Row.i was born in bute Street. By the friary

[@johnlavery6116]

Greetings from Belfast.

[@keekstar2914]

@@johnlavery6116 up the new lodge

[@typower9]

What Lawlor says is very true.

[@oneandolnytoniy5117]

It not many I know in Liverpool who haven’t got some Irish blood in them , I am 69% Irish and I am Catholic, the Protestants in Liverpool got Irish and Scottish blood

[@DweebeNerd]

30% Irish, 27% Welsh, 18% Scottish, 17% English, 5% Norway and 3% German😂

[@jaimeerivera8217]

@@td370 What’s your point? There are people in Liverpool who look fully black yet have a Liverpool-Irish Grandmother from the north end, are they any less Irish? Exactly. Save the Xenophobia for the pub after the football

[@jaimeerivera8217]

@@td370 You're full of assumptions and that's totally okay - to correct you, I'm not from America, was born in Liverpool -Holy Cross/The Four Squares/The bullring to precise darling - if you really know Liverpool and the Irish community, I don't need to expand any further, I was back and forth to Ireland throughout my life. Let's play genetics, a lady gets the boat over from Ireland in the '50s, falls in love with an African sailor, they have a mixed-race child, that child grows up to have a child with a black man, that child (1/4 Irish in theory) is minded by their Irish grandmother, they hear Kevin Barry sang, they go on holidays back home. Are they any less Irish? No! You sound incredibly racist, probably an orange King Billy, a 'West-Brit'. You're dying breed darling x

[@Iamtheliquor]

Im Scouse and I’m one of the few with no Irish. My dads side is welsh and mum’s family was from the Isle of Mann

[@michaelgaskell7408]

@@Iamtheliquor Be proud of it,if you feel it's right.

[@edwardspearing5148]

I don't know if the young lady Nasra Elliot has twigged.. There's a bit of Dublin inflection in her vocal.. Up the Dubs.

[@hazelcarrick1903]

I have relations in Liverpool, they came from Ireland, Dublin, mc Mahon was there grandfather name, I love to find them, Kate and Ellen were his sisters, he went there also,

[@12shankley]

Me, I am Irish Catholic, Scots/ Irish Protestant, Welsh and English now that is a mix up.

[@seniorscouse3346]

Baiscally everyone here in liverpool is baiscally not even english nearly all of us have irish heritage including me most of are dna comes from germany norway ireland wales scotland spain america canada france russia denmark portugal thats were most of are ancestors come from

[@DweebeNerd]

Same lad

[@DweebeNerd]

I actually got my dna test done. 30% Ireland 27% Wales 18% Scotland 17% England & North West Europe 5% Norway 3% German

[@seniorscouse3346]

@@DweebeNerd most of me dna was irish spanish german french norweign n russia but the second most behind irish was spanish i know dis coz am descended from cortez d fella who took over mexico for spain also french aswell coz me grandad was in d french army den the british one on me mums side anyway

[@DweebeNerd]

@@seniorscouse3346 That's interesting, I'm related to Sir Richard Clough, a Welsh merchant that worked for Elizabeth Tudor as an agent. He married to Katherine Tudor, unfortunately he's my great uncle and not my great grandad! Would have been great to have Tudor blood.

[@arickett68]

I’m from Birkenhead, across the River Mersey, and my DNA is 59%Irish through my paternal line, 29% English through my maternal, 10% Scottish no idea where from and 2% Germanic Europe??

[@richardeast3328]

The most 'Irish' Englishman, Paul McCartney.

[@johnlavery6116]

Well said!..Ireland

[@michaelgaskell7408]

McCartneys about as Irish as a stick of Blackpool rock. Mick.

[@waynej2608]

John Lennon and George Harrison had Irish lineage too. Ringo, I'm not sure of. Although 'Starkey' sounds Irish.

[@baron2739]

Did she say her Dad was born in 1906? 🤔

[@margaretryan8782]

B

[@barbarapineda5730]

Is nothing new about a birace..couples..indivi..mixed Asians, indivi...mixed..with a europeans,.. indivi... either..

[@barbarapineda5730]

Not all Irish, indivi...left their cultures..20%per cents..thats all.. not many Asians, mixed with others cultures,..either.

[@MarkSpeakmanGY]

In Asian families arranged marriages fixed that for a decade or three. In Irish families, Catholicism of the greater majority. English catholics represent a tiny minority of the overall population. Some wealthy Catholics were in a position to create the ‘priest’s hole’, a hidden room in their great houses, often between floors, the lower floor having a false ceiling. Lancashire was the last English county to hold out against the forced imposition of the state religion by Elizabeth 1st, Henry Viii’s fanatical daughter, whether this resulted in a greater number of Catholics in that county, or not, as the intervening centuries rolled by, I know not.

[@barbarapineda5730]

This not a big issues.about. ethic, clays. A Irish indivi... mixture of a Asian, indivi...at all.not million, 30%too 40%

[@jamesbyrne9312]

So much shame at being irish among some of these people. Sad

[@bimble7240]

I didn't hear that at all. Who are you referring to in this video?

[@jamesbyrne9312]

@@bimble7240 it's obvious

[@DudeSilad]

@@jamesbyrne9312 I heard nothing but pride.

[@jamesbyrne9312]

@@DudeSilad well ur not good at reading tone or body language then.

[@keithfidock-casey7330]

My Irish 3×Great Grandmother left Liverpool to Melbourne in 1853 on the ship The Derry Castle.