Scots/Irish. My family on my father's side came from Scotland via Northern Ireland.
Guess that makes us cousins, of sorts.
My fathers family came from Northern Ireland (Ulster/Antrim) to Scotland in 265 A.D..
My Great, Great Grandfather left Scotland in 1830 and sailed to Canada.
My Great Grandfather moved to Houston, Texas in 1870.
In a funny turn of events, all my Grandfathers were blacksmiths and my father was a welder for S&P railroad.
In the 1990's I self taught myself blacksmithing, not knowing the long family history.
It came to me so easily, like slipping into a well fitting shoe.
One year later I was teaching at a historical village the art of coal fired blacksmithing.
Gaelic blood runs deep.