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Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm wondering since Hell's Kitchen was Irish and Mahoney is an Irish surname. What if Foggy didn't find any of Matt's Catholicism odd for a non Catholic because the Mahoney family kept the faith and practices of an Irish ancestor. Or whatever. Basically I'm just thinking Brett could be Irish descent like Matt and wonder how they would play into things of given further character development or thought for stories. P

Re: Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

They made Ben Catholic, so I don't see why not.

(You don't have to be Irish to be Catholic, fyi)

Re: Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

Yes this.

Although Mahoney is an Irish name, so that may be what OP was referring to?

Re: Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

I understand it is, but like... I live in an area that has a lot of people with Scottish and Irish last names, and while it's obvious that at some point our ancestors came from Ireland or Scotland, only about 10% of the population would self-identify as such. (Co-incidentally, most of us are Roman Catholic too, go figure.)

Also, there's a whole different type of history for the last names of African Americans, y'know? Couple generations back somebody on his father's side of the family was probably owned by someone with the last name Mahoney.

tl;dr Just because someone's surname denotes a certain culture/nationality does not automatically mean said person identifies with that culture/nationality, etc etc etc. :-)

Re: Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

Don't discount the possibility that Brett's parents are an interracial couple. Or that he was adopted.

In fact, now I'm picturing Brett's dad as a super-stereotypical Irish-Catholic cop and imagining what his relationship to his parents might be like, and the potential Brett backstories in those possibilities are making me super intrigued.

I don't know why people seem to limit themselves to headcanons based solely on last names or character appearances. It's so much fun to stretch the limits of things and go a more interesting way than what's right in front of you... lots of people have last names that don't mesh with what you would expect or backgrounds you would never have predicted.