What are Irish twins?

[XNASA]

:shrug:

[JVS]

1. 2 pregnancies resulting in children born within one year

For instance if siblings are born on 1/1/1999 and 11/15/1999, they are called Irish twins.

[hickman1937]

37. That's it. My little brother and I are 11 months apart.

I remember hearing that more than once, although we were only half Irish.

[Fenris]

2. Twins conceived in a Jameson bottle?

Sort of like test-tube babies?:shrug:

[u4ic]

40. Or a Guinness bottle?

;)

[evlbstrd]

3. My brother and I.

Born just under 1 year apart.

[ceile]

16. My sis and bro are 10 months apart n/t

[mac56]

27. My sister and I are 11 months apart TO THE DAY.

And we're Irish. Actually "Scots-Irish".

[pitohui]

30. which AIN'T irish

i'm afraid my mother was a tad prejudiced and she was always quick to remind us, scots-rish is NOT irish

it's bad-tempered scottish people who got chased out of scotland and into ireland, and then out of ireland to the usa

but saying you're irish if you're scots-irish is like my friend saying he's haitian because his french forebears moved from france to haiti to own plantations and try to put down the rebellion for napoleon but instead ended up being chased to new orleans, they are considered french by way of haiti but not haitian

does that make sense?

[hickman1937]

38. Except when the hookup happened here.

My GrGrGrandfather was 100% Irish and my GrGrGrandmother was 100% Scot. They married in Troy, New York around 1890, thus making their children Scot-Irish. That's how their children identified themselves. My Grandmother did often make the distinction that her parents were NOT borderers. It happened here. She always made it sound like the difference btw a mutt and a cross breed.
edit for clarity.

[mac56]

41. Way to go. Harsh my buzz, AND

make me feel bad about my heritage. Two for one.

[evlbstrd]

36. My folks finished up with six of us in seven years.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I have a friend who is an Irish twin.

She was born in September of 1949 and her brother in November of 1948. Their poor mother then went through six (count 'em!) six more pregnancies.

[Fenris]

5. Did her vagina just eventually collapse?

;)

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Um....I never asked.

:rofl:

[Fenris]

8. That's the kind of question I would ask.

"Say, did number eight just fall out of you or was there any resistance?":D

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. I can assure you that you would not have received an answer....

knowing the woman in question.

[DontBlameMe]

10. "Oh, would you get that, dear?"

MP's Meaning of Life

[XNASA]

13. Perhaps she wore a truss of some sort?

Made of I-beams and bridge cable.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. I can give you her address if you want to go check it out....

;)

[XNASA]

17. Me? No, I don't wanna check out anything.

I just wanna hop in a cab and go home.

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. Didn't think you'd take me up on that suggestion.

So I guess we will never know. I just wanna hop in my car and go home.

[tigereye]

45. um

the afore-mentioned organ does have some flexibility and actually reverts to it's previous state, Fenris...

;)

[youthere]

26. I wouldn't think you'd have to ask...

you just would have had to look and see if she was dragging it behind her. :wow:

[pitohui]

31. it's called prolapsed

not collapsed

:-)

[flowomo]

7. kids born 9-11 months apart...

as above post says.

[Writer]

11. Two boys...

One named Fitz, the other Gerald.

(Please don't shoot me. Thanks.)

[XNASA]

12. Patrick Fitzgerald, and Gerald Fitzpatrick.

[willing dwarf]

14. That's so cute! Everybody seems to get Pat Fitz's name mixed up!

[Fenris]

19. Or Roy Fitzhugh, and Hugh Fitzroy.

[XNASA]

20. Fitzhugh TOO!!!!

:mad:

[Fenris]

21. Fitzoff

;)

[I Have A Dream]

44. Thanks, I had it straight until now.

:eyes:

:rofl:

[Karmageddon]

22. I knew a set of Irish quadruplets.

Friends mom was 38 when she got pregnant the first time. Had twins. 10 months later had twins again.

Imagine going from 38 and irresponsible and child free to having 4 babies under a year old? YOW!!

She had 4 more over the course of the next several years. My friend was 7 of 8.

[XNASA]

23. Impetuous! Homeric!

10 points to the person who knows the actor and the movie the above quote is from.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

39. That's Barry Fitzgerald in his role as Michaeleen Og Flynn in the

Quiet Man.

Question for you XNASA, who played the Rev. Playfair in the same movie?

[Gormy Cuss]

24. Now that put a smile on the pope's face.

I've heard of Irish triplets but never quads!
There were a lot of Irish twins in my old neighborhood.

[youthere]

25. Two pints of Guiness?

[China_cat]

28. The children of my stepfather's cousin.

She was married 10 years before she got pregnant the first time. Then she had 9 children in 7 years...all SINGLE births. She'd barely have passed her 6 week post partum exam when she'd be pregnant again.

She was a great example for what NOT to do.

[LaraMN]

29. I missed it by a month, with my last two.

Well- almost- my daughter was born at the end of January 2002; my son was born in early March, 2003, 13 months and ten days after her.

[pitohui]

32. mothers with real twins really resent that term

a former sis-in-law had twins and you did NOT want to hear her rant abt people who had irish twins or "almost twins" try to empathize

there is nothing like twins, they have no idea, they should just shut up blah blah and so on

considering she had a v. difficult pregnancy, complete w. the morphine bed rest, the premature births, the incubator, and one twin blind as a result...i just let her rant

but my take-away lesson was NEVER tell the mother of real twins that irish twins are anywhere near as challenging as the real thing

[AwakeAtLast]

33. That would be ME!!!!

My sister and I were both born in 1970 - me in January and my sister in December. We are the same age for exactly three weeks. We were almost in the same class in school, too!

Edit to add that Mom is part Irish :)

[Shine]

34. My sister and I are "Irish twins"

For ten days out of the year, we're the same age.

Basically, as you've by now most certainly been informed, it's two pregnancies within one calender year.

Ugh, can you imagine??! No thank you.

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. Joined at the pint

:beer:

[Bunny]

42. I have two sets of siblings who missed being Irish twins by one

month, in both cases. Two older brothers are 13 months apart, and two younger sibs (brother and sister) are also 13 months apart. My mom had seven kids in 13 years!

[spacelady]

43. A good friend of mine had her two kids exactly one year apart, so they

share the same birthday. I wonder if that counts?