If Irish Have Blood Of Kings - Name One In Vein?

Question

When blood talks I'll listen.

Please pardon my pun.

Answer 1

It's hard not to have the 'blood of kings' when you're Irish, since the island used to be divided into so many tiny kingdom... virtually any Irish clan that left a family name used to be royal... if only over an area smaller than a modern county and for a couple generations. So if every Irishman isn't propely descended from a king, you can be pretty sure that some of his ancestors used to be some king's cousins or nephews.

Then, there are the kings that history remembers, like Brian Boru (O'Brien), or Neill Naoigille (O'Neill, O'Connell, and virtually all nobility from Ulster) ...

Answer 2

Yeah, same thing about us Welsh having the blood of Princes.  Probably just a load of cobblers in the case of myself, beause all I know is there is a long line of disrespecful common soldiers and miners and lesser riff-raff in my Welsh ancestry.

anyway, this next clip explains everything about being Welsh.

Rhod Gilbert - The Comedy Store London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaWX1cc8x...

Answer 3

Domnac mac Aedo.

Answer 4

I do not think they should boast over much about that because it gives room to call them a lot of ba-tards. On the whole i like the Irish too much to want to call them that  

Answer 5

Wow-it must be really hard to get a transfusion.

Answer 6

OK. The jugular.



But here is my theory since a lot of my ancestry is Irish (also English) Ireland was a small country and before the British took over, I'm not sure when that was; Ireland was divided up into little kingdoms or whatever. There was probably a lot of intermarriage or inter-whatever  and many of the people in an area may have been related to a local king or duke or whatever.

I'm just guessing that is why people might say we have the "blood of kings" Frankly, I've never really heard that. I've only heard I had the "Blood" of potato farmers. Nice to know I had some nobility in my background!