Many people know who they are by their roots. They easily identify themselves with one specific ethnic group or nationality. As for me, I must be some kind of a mutt. Looking over my ancestral record, I find myself caught in the middle between several different and somewhat opposing groups. One branch of my mother’s [...]

Most Americans today know that Ireland is a divided island and they know that in the south, there is the Republic of Ireland and that in the north is a region that is called Northern Ireland. However, within the confines of the Emerald Isle this region in the north goes by different names depending on [...]