Well, I was thinking more people of Irish ancestry in US, Canada etc. There seems to be great interest and people are always wanting to go back to Ireland to find out where their ancestors came from. There was a wall of silence I think because of the famine...there was also active resistance to listening to anything because of how horrible it all was. It reminds me of the Chinook Indians..the Chinook trade language remains and we all still speak a few words of it, but the Chinook traditional language they say was lost when a huge epidemic wiped them out...survivors were unable to speak their own language. Of course, neither could the Irish in America. I did not realize until recently my own grandparents grew up speaking Irish in a community in Iowa that was settled by Dingle Irish. And of course they probably knew some English, some Latin, maybe some Spanish..I was told while there that they could get Spanish citizenship at some point because of all the connections there.

Anyway, one DNA interpretation says I am more Dutch than Irish..I know I have French Irish ancestry and of course the Vikings made social calls...and I do have some Dutch heritage I know of...I thought I would be way more Cornish and way more Welsh..but other than a stray person here and there it is Scots or English/Norman..most trace back to France and probably from there many at least to Norway.

I have almost no Irish information at all. None. but on my mother's side I can trace back to the king of troy and oden and king of the vandals etc.