The world goes green on St Patrick's Day!

Question

Happy St Patricks Day from Liam Neeson:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXifIS5pBi4

.... And with a tear in your eye, celebrate your Irish profiles with some Wikitree love

Have a great Paddy's Day everyone!

Answer 1

An Irish Blessing: 

"May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind always be at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face, 

The rain fall soft upon your fields,

and until we meet again,

May God hold you in the Palm of His Hands."

More at: http://islandireland.com/Pages/folk/sets/bless.html

Answer 2

Liam Neeson reads St. Patricks Breastplate, attributed to St. Patrick.

http://philandmartha.org/saint-patrick/happy-saint-patricks-day-2/

Answer 3

I am actually trying to find out if there is any truth to the family tale that my Maternal great grandmothers family was in fact from Ireland. Docherty-82  http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Docherty-82

Comments

With a name like Docherty, I would have thought there is some Irishness there somewhere :-)   Maybe her parents were Irish - have you been able to find them on the Scottish censuses?  That might tell you where they were born.

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So far the sources I have found that I am somewhat sure of have all been from in the Glasgow area of Scotland. Her mother's maiden name was Kelly

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But how did they get to Glasgow?

Working in the ship yards?

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Still researching that.

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Not being helpful, I know. I'm sure they'll surface but you musn't mind us enjoying the fact that you only wonder if she came from Ireland. In this week of St. Paddy's day, when so many of us are up to our eyeballs in Irish family history, it seems obvious that your Patrick Docherty and Isabella Kelly could have originated no-where else, even if not both first generation immigrants, though births c.1847 suggest they arrived with the first wave of the great post famine diaspora.

Wishing you all the luck of the Irish.

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I have documented Irish ancestors on my fathers side, it is only this line on my mothers line that has some doubt and no good sources, but I do remember my grandfather saying that his mothers family was from Dublin.