Many, many years ago, my Great-Great Grandfather owned a large sheep farm in Ireland. I don't know where it was located or how none of it made it my way.
On my father's side, his grandparents were Irish. On my mother's mother's side several of her family members were from Ireland.
A man named Conner Dowd(or O'Dowd-can't remember which) came from Ireland before the revolutionary war and fought on the British side. You can find his name on google! Here is an article about him. You have to go about five paragraphs down before you will find his name.
I can give you the passenger numbers for both of my paternal grandparents when they came over on the boat from Ireland. On Mom's side they came over a generation earlier and worked as servants until they moved to Iowa. I'm about as Irish as you can get and be American I guess.
Im just a wee bit Irish but im no lassie no. McLaughlin's the name of the Lachlan Clan and heres me proof. Me clan castle, its a fixer upper near Donegal. My family tartan and last but not least the crest.