clan associations

[triolamj]

I'm Italian (Sicilian), Irish, and Danish in that order. Even though I represent for the Irish clan of McMahon of Thomond (mom's paternal grandmother) here in southeast Texas, and we have a "chief", I voted "NO". I usually sponsor and run an all-Irish table at the local highland games to provide hospitality to the Scots-Irish and any stray Irish that pass by. Maybe once DNA testing drops to a really affordable level and enough people get tested, we'll start forming more and more family name associations (we don't have septs, but we do have family groupings like O'Brien, McMahon, McKennedy based on descent). We even have a Standing Council of Irish Chieftains which included 2 roguish fraudsters. First pipes, then kilts, then caubeens, and now evil lairds: what other Scottish tradition are we going to pick up?