Black Irish & Ancestry.

 
This looks like will be a good film, check out the trailer:
 
 
My own Irish ancestry makes me interested in these kinds of things. My great-grandparents on my mum’s side – Frank & Mary McCarty emmigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland in the early 1900’s and settled in Lucan, Ontario, the town infamous for the massacre of the Donnelly family who emigrated to Lucan from the same county about 50 years earlier. Wikipedia has a good article about them here:
 
 
Another set of ancestors, William &  Mary Cantelon (previously de Cantillon, de Cantalupe) emigrated to Clinton, Ontario about 1840 from County Limerick/Tipperary area, Ireland (which may explain something about our sense of humour). Our family history is Irish for several centuries to about 1300 AD when is switches to England for a couple of hundred years and then around 1000 AD goes to Normandy in France. From that point the family is basically European centric for a while. In fact you can go from son to father to grandfather all the way back to Dilulius I Of Cimmeria king of Cimmerians around 650 BC (although any family histories that go further back than 1500 AD are kind of sketchy due to poor records etc).
 
All that to say the movie looks good and knowing your ancestry can spur interest in all sorts of things. 

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