#i have three irish catholic grandparents and then on my mom's side one random finnish-belgian grandmother

[britneyshakespeare]

i love it when i find out that a french-speaking artist i'm a fan of is belgian

#my great-grandmother was belgian #it'd be a lie to say i'm in touch with that ancestry but other than irish that's really all i am #i have three irish catholic grandparents and then on my mom's side one random finnish-belgian grandmother #whose last name was english because her father just took the name of the guy in front of him at ellis island #bc whatever finnish name he had. the guy doing the paperwork didn't wanna spell it and he wasn't literate. #like most white americans i don't know my own family history very well #but i make a good irish-american stereotype bc im a redheaded lapsed catholic from a giant family based in massachusetts #can't get much more irish-american than that #tales from diana #my great-grandmother didn't even speak french tho. she was flemish #she was also illiterate and according to my mother not the brightest bulb in the lamp in the common sense department #basically everyone on both sides of my mom's family had a very rough background #is what it is