Day Nine

The question for today is....  What do you do, if in your more mature years, you discover that you might actually have roots in Ireland?  Not a 'probably', just because your mother and your niece have red hair, but because you now have a name that may be the connection?

I am so excited I can hardly contain myself!!  When I posted some photos on Facebook, of my July trip to Ireland, my cousin Karen asked if I'd done any research on our ancestors while I was there.  Up to this point, for me, Celtic or Irish ancestry has only been a lovely dream.  I have been drawn to that part of the world; the natural beauty, the history, the music, the language, the culture, the people, their faith, their accomplishments and their pain.  Since my first trip to Ireland in 2008, then Scotland in 2009, I have continued to read and at times immerse myself in learning more about everything Celtic.

Now I have a name........O'Neil.  And the name from my childhood that I discarded many years ago comes back, with a wee lovely lilt;)  Rosie...and add the O'Neil. I can hear a voice singing to me, a most captivating tune, "Will you go, lassie, go?"

http://www.thehighkings.com/video/video-will-ye-go-lassie/

Sigh.....  What a journey!!!