Its all very weird.

I mean, it was all a long time ago, who gives a bugger....

Well the Americans do apparently. The Oklahoma bomber described himself as 8th generation Irish.

Apart from the Queen, nobody in England has a clue what their family was doing eight generations ago. And there were probably a few mongrels got over the fence in her case.

This argument is madness....desist!

You only think you're Irish, you might be an Eskinmo or echt Deutsch, or one of the marshmallow people. We could all be pods planted here by an extra terrestial force, and one day a member of the mysterious kangaroo people from the galaxy Ursa Major could jump out of our bums.

In fact, I think I can feel one coming.......