I know 12 generations back and have been to the miserable villages where they served their andlords. How about you? Do you know who and where YOU came from? int no slave owning in my past. My ancestors were lucky to be able to share a pair of shoes to take turns herding sheep until they came to America expecting to find the streets paved with gold.
Not only was there no gold- but they had to pave the streets.
Nobody knows what his/her ancestry was before 1,000 years ago. Yet homo sapiens has existed in the present form for about 200,000 years. Who were your ancestors before they immigrated to Ireland? Where did they come from? What was their racial makeup? Before 2,000 years ago we're talking about millions of ancestors, even considering duplicates. The Irish serfs--bless 'em--that you know about are only a very small number of all your ancestors. God only knows your--and my--true heritage--and who all of our ancestors were.