Trollop - I said where the words came from in my reply. The word Taig I was unsure of for many, many years.. apart from its (mis)use in Northern Ireland.
Here is what I'd said:
Anyway .. the word comes from the commonly found Irish surname, which is still found today in surnames like McTeague etc. Not half as common now as it once was.
"Fenians - I used to know where that came from and I forgot. But I'm related to a lot of Fenians. Wouldn't it come from the followers of Finn MacCool -- the Fianna? I think that's it."
The word Fenian, comes from the Gaels who invaded Ireland around 400AD. They called themselves Feni, which I think means "land-owning freemen".
There was an anti-British Fenian movement which originated in the east of the USA towards the end of the 1800s. It would probably be nigh on impossible to tell if you were descended from the Feni or not... although you may well be descended from a member of one of the Fenian groups in the USA back at that time.
"I don't know Russ2 much, and I sort of confuse him with Rebel. That shows you how much I know about Irish politics."
The one being almost as extreme as the other when it comes to Irish politics, religion and Irish history, I think it would be easy to confuse the two! Sometimes I found myself confusing Lourenco and Russ2.
Russ2 has apparently stopped porting on IA.
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