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Posted By: anotherone? | I'm proud to be a Gogan, Goggins, Goggans, gogin, Gogen, or whoever that is. I'm proud to be from somewhere in Ireland wherever that is. I'm proud to have overcome being a rich aristocrat or a poor starving farmer-whatever. I'm proud to have come from the North of Ireland or the South- whichever. I'm proud to be known only by my DNA or the size of the ancestral nose-whichever preferred.I was either evicted from my poverty stricken farm or had the ancestral manse stolen by the English. who knows? Maybe I came to Newberry and owned a huge plantation full of miserable black folk. Or maybe I was one of those miserable black folk. Maybe I landed in Boston and was a poor, cheerful, but very hardworking chambermaid and definately a devout Catholic. Or perhaps I landed in New York and was seriously becoming another Martin Luther. Whatever.
Everybody sing along now- "Im proud to be a Goggans, Goggins, Gogans, Gogan, Gogen, whatever. I'm proud to be from Ulster, Cork, Kilkenny or Wales, wherever. I'm proud to overcome luxury and hardship, whichever". I'm proud to....."
Ah, you just haven't lived until you've been a Goggans, Goggins, Gogen, Gogan....
Ah but wait....I'm proud to be
an Arkie goggans, I dearly loved Redfield. for true living experience, descend from a Goggans in Redfield. Ah nectar of the Gods. The beauty, the wit, the chivalry, the courage and that's just the catfish!
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