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**DoniandaCoado** · 08-01-2007, 06:29 PM

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Are you really that stupid, Slowwhand? The Irish are natives of Ireland. The Nothern Irish are Scottish settlers from the time of William of Orange's conquest of Great Britain and Ireland from James II. Hence their name, Orangemen. Quibble (but not a small one) - IIUC there were Protestants/Scots Irish living in two counties well before the battle of the Boyne, or even Cromwell. In fact there had been extensive contact between Scotland and at least parts of Ulster going back to before the Reformation, and accompanying settlement.

Oh, and of course many of the post Boyne settlers were English, or came from areas along the Scottish-English border where the distinction wasnt always clear, and where "border"culture overlapped the frontier.

08-01-2007, 06:29 PM	#15
DoniandaCoado Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 518 Senior Member	Originally posted by chegitz guevara Are you really that stupid, Slowwhand? The Irish are natives of Ireland. The Nothern Irish are Scottish settlers from the time of William of Orange's conquest of Great Britain and Ireland from James II. Hence their name, Orangemen. Quibble (but not a small one) - IIUC there were Protestants/Scots Irish living in two counties well before the battle of the Boyne, or even Cromwell. In fact there had been extensive contact between Scotland and at least parts of Ulster going back to before the Reformation, and accompanying settlement. Oh, and of course many of the post Boyne settlers were English, or came from areas along the Scottish-English border where the distinction wasnt always clear, and where "border"culture overlapped the frontier.
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