I always thought I was 75% Irish and 25% English but my DNA says no English, just a bit of Welsh and Scottish. Did you know that thousands of Scots came to Northern Ireland in the 1600s, encouraged by England to balance the Catholic presence? I'm not a Fighting Irish fan but I can claim a connection to Hugh O’Neil who survived 168 rounds in a bare-knuckle boxing match in Colorado in the late 1800s.