JD Vance's Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end DUP-commissioned report fails to find a link

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well, we are all Irish on St Pat's day.


JD Vance’s Irish ancestry claim hits a genealogical dead end
DUP-commissioned report fails to find a link between Donald Trump’s vice-president — a self-declared Scots-Irish — and Ireland

https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/jd-vance-scots-irish-family-history-682pjm5j5



JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland.

In an attempt to link Vance to Ulster, a DUP minister commissioned researchers to dig into the ancestral past of the controversial Republican Party politician.

A glossy 24-page dossier titled “The Family Footsteps of JD Vance” was produced, but researchers admitted they had “not established a conclusive family link” to Northern Ireland.

Gordon Lyons, the Northern Ireland minister for communities, had been ­hoping to present a copy of the report personally to Vance over the St Patrick’s Day period in Washington DC......................



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The claim to white working-class Scots-Irish identity has become part of JD Vance’s projected image
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[marble falls]

1. We need to do to him what they did to Elizibeth Warren, from now on he's JD O'Vance.

[marble falls]

5. JD Luckycharms has a nice ring to it, too!

[CountAllVotes]

2. Typical inbred

Vance is a nowhere man, a real nobody from nowhere but Appalachia.

>>The family were at the time rooted in Appalachia, a narrative that Vance, 40, championed in his memoir.

Who cares?

[Ocelot II]

3. Now that Vance is a declared super-Catholic, isn't it interesting

that he connects himself genetically to the Protestant Irish of Ulster? They were the descendants of Scots who were resettled by the British into Northern Ireland in the 17th century in order to confiscate the lands of the Irish Catholic nobility in Ulster and populate the area with Scottish Presbyterians. Many of them emigrated to the US before the Revolution to escape discrimination against Presbyterians by the Church of England, and settled in the Appalachians. In other words, Vance's claimed ancestors were Protestant settlers on confiscated Catholic lands who came to America so they could keep being Presbyterians.

But it's not accurate to question his "Irishness." Scots-Irish Americans are technically Scots, not Irish.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Didn't know any of this. I figured he sprouted from slime mold.