Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 11:24:13 -0600

From: Joan Houston Hall jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: Re: "Irish Twins"



Volume III of DARE will have an entry for "Irish twin," defined as "One of

two siblings born within a year of each other."



Here are our citations:



1966 DARE File csWI, Irish twins--two children born within or in less than

one year of each other in a family. (Heard from a doctor in Waunakee.)



1979 DARE File neNJ, They couldn't have children, so they adopted a foreign

baby. Then, within a month of the adoption, she was pregnant. It was just

like the Irish twins--you know, one was conceived right after the other was

born.



1985 Greely _Happy Meek_ 194 neIL, Margaret and Wolfe Junior were Irish

twins, born eleven months apart.



1990 DARE File ceWI, When I was a little girl--about 1920--I heard my Aunt

Minnie refer to a neighbor's babies as "Irish twins." Because I wasn't quite

sure of how long it took to have a baby, I was very interested to find out

that, as Aunt Minnie explained "Irish twins" to me, you could have two

babies within twelve months!



Joan Hall, DARE

jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]facstaff.wisc.edu