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Wrong end of the stick. Obviously a lot still to be learned 😉.

The place names say it all - Oban, Kilmartin, Kilberry, Kilmory, Tralee Bay etc etc.

I'm a McAlister and a Galvin. Got a little German in me as well. My ancestors were good looking and smart! Lol

2nd that!

@@seanmcmanus8906 3rd

4th..

Absolutely

Why sure you all hated the Scots and their Presbyterian ways, the Irish persecuted the Scots and committed heinous crimes against them.

Don't miss the midges...or as my Lochaber and Glencoe cousins were wont to say...beasties...best wishes from the wirral...E

Yes lots of Scots in Ireland. You can see them flying the Saltire ,marching about ,playing flutes and banging them big drums. Singing their songs . Definitely 2 linked nations.

@@billycaspersghost7528 As an Irishman, the idea of Irish/Scottish solidarity is a myth. The Scots unionised with the English during the act of Union in 1707. They went to war with the Irish and thri monarch (James VI of Scots) planted themselves in Northen Ireland after he took over the kingdom of England in 1603. They were hard-line Presybretarians and the ethnic component to the invasions is often overlooked (yes can you believe that? Scots seeing themselves as ethnically different from Irish!). Scotland certainly is not linked to Ireland, but we are geographically close, but Scotland is even closer to England, sharing a direct land border and their nation is part of the same island. Still we all have our own nationality and seperate identities, histories, origins and cultures etc. It's said Scotland is like the Japan of Europe, and if Korea is like the England of Europe, Ireland is like the China of Europe in terms of history and outward expansionist trends etc. It's an idea that still to this day among some in Northern Ireland who look to Britain (especially Scotland) for help to crush any nationalist movements within the area. For some reason when I speak to protestant N. Irish/Scottish not all but quite a few try to profess their genetic admixture with England and whereever else in the world like it even matters against their native nationality?? If you were to say walk down a protestant street in some areas of Scotland with an Irish flag you can be sure to find yourself in a lot of trouble. I mean real big trouble. The Scots are far more extreme in their conviction for what is called the UK. The attachment to this idea is a lot greater on average than say your run of the mill Jack the lad from England. Ireland being intensely opposed to Britain this doesn’t make for good sentiment among Scots who see the Kingdom of Great Britain as a Scottish creation, which in a way they technically are correct at the very least in that. It’s only until the Irish go on holiday to our so-called brothers in arms to find out they are despised by half the population. It's actually the Catholic Scots whose family were actually Irish immigrants during the famine who were always opposed to Britain rather than the actual Scottish majority who they saw as some ethnic quasi Germanic Celt and have an affinity towards Ireland. By the way, the Scots exterminated many a number of them during the clearances. In a sense they are more sectarian than the Northern Irish. So to wrap it up, no, the Scots and the Irish do not see eye to eye and no we don’t have this brotherly love depending, of course, on what kind of a Scot you're implying ;). But ultimately its a myth. People took Brave Heart too seriously, especially the Yanks :). Also on the last point, I don’t have a problem with Scots or English. I think its a load of rubbish. But I will say that Ireland/Britain has a lot of texture and very deep complex aspects to it and I don’t want to make it so black and white. Please also refer to a comment made by Alistair Thompson which will give some context on this. I’m not trying to deflect I have a secret dislike for Scots I really have no issue with Britains of any region. What the dispute has devolved into today between Protestant and Catholics is beyond reproach but here is what Alistair said which should be noted for everyone as an example of the depth it goes: The push and pull factors varied, because it wasn’t really one migration at all, but several. Some of the Scots who came to Ulster were planters who arrived because the king, James VI and I wanted them to put roots down in Ireland, some were Gallowglasses who were actively recruited by the Irish, some were brought over in a couple of private plantations which were organised by Scottish gentry who had bought land from impoverished Irish nobility and some were actually refugees from a famine in Scotland in the 1690s. Some of the planters who took part in the official plantation with the king’s consent were less than willing to go to Ireland, because they were border reivers who were transported as convicts to Ireland in much the same way as convicts were later transported to the American colonies and after American independence, to Australia. Many of the Scots in Ulster were Presbyterian (although some were Catholic, in particular those who started as the hired Gallowglasses). The Presbyterians in particular chafed under the Penal Laws after their support for William of Orange, so many of them voluntarily emigrated to the American colonies in the 1700s where they often became frontiersmen in the Appalachians for example and the artificially constructed “Scots Irish” identity in America almost to a man supported America’s war of independence, so great was their distaste for British rule. You probably already know all about those who stayed in Ulster and were involved with the United Irishmen only a generation later. If only more “Ulster Scots” acknowledged the full history of their very complicated relationship with Britain. Some do of course (especially the Catholic nationalist ones like your Alasdair McDonnells and your John Humes). In my experience though, they are few and far between. All too easy to pretend that all the Ulster Protestants have always been loyal British subjects and all the Irish Catholics have always been rebels. The full history is an awful lot more complicated, with Catholic loyalists and Protestant rebels galore.

@@steveburnside3242 I know.

@@billycaspersghost7528 Know what?

@@steveburnside3242 All the stuff you said. Also, I don't think you're Irish . Yank maybe. Could be wrong. Oh, FTP by the way.

True dat

The following excerpt is the translated word of John de Maupas on his account of Irish peer and earl of Louth John de Bermingham following the battle of Faughart in which the Irish (Hiberni in Latin) fought against the Scots (Scotti in Latin) after the Scots conquered Ireland (Hibernia in Latin) following their success in conquering the English after Bannockburn - a defeat that took England at least 20 years to recover from. Robert I king of Scots sought to conquer Ireland and install his brother, Edward Bruce as high king of Ireland (which would be a Scottish take over of Ireland similar to what James VI King of Scots would do centuries later in 1603 with England). So when James VI of Scots took England in 1603, he also took Ireland as well, because Ireland was owned by the kingdom of England as a 'Papal possession' - which began with the Laudibiliter between Pope Adrian IV and Henry II of England - which further back was made possible due to Dermod MacMurrough the Hiberni (Irish) King of Leinster who wanted English help from Henry II to regain lost lands back from other rival Hiberni (Irish) petty kingdoms, therefore Ireland was effectively later owned by the Scottish royal house with a Scottish monarch having dominion over Irish land as well as English land and the early British colonies overseas by extension. At this time following Bannockburn however, the real Irish of the time (Hiberni), did not see the Scots as much different from the English, they were also seen as colonisers, more so infact because what is now Ireland at that time was a Papal possession owned by the Kingdom of England, and so the Anglo settlers who were said to become more Irish than the Irish (Hiberni) themselves were allied with the Irish in their efforts against the Scots of the north on both islands. Here >> people.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1988-9/nolan.htm

@@plasticpaddy985 More "Irish than Irish"? That'll be those Oirish you see around London. 🤭

@@euansmith3699 In Ireland we call them English Plastic Paddies.

A model of clarity and brevity Euan...clearly sober when you posted this...E

Very welcome

🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Erie - Alba gu brath (Ireland-Scotland forever)

@@mikhailabunidal9146 yep....

@@mikhailabunidal9146 deluded, the Irish hated the Scots, sure you still hate us ulster_scots right until today

@@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251 My Protestant friends in Carlow with English names can’t be Irish then? They must be “Leinster English” 😂

Been, to Scotland afew times Saw a good bit of the country lovely country and people greetings from southern ireland

They told us , they kept scottish prisoners in the dungeons , so i went home and asked "When were we at war with scotland " 🤔🤔

Thanks, you too!

Clearly you have good taste...as a Derry native I,m a bit biased towards Seumas Heaney's work..

@ Jim Thistle Unfortunately both of the spellings are anglicized phonetic spellings of your ancient name of Ó Raghalligh. ( male) Ní Raghallaigh ( unmarried female) All the names / spellings of places and people in Ireland have been angilized and don’t have meaning but when the slime is removed and the original name is uncovered and used it has deep meaning . It’s probably the same for Scotland and Wales which have also been angilized during the many years of colonization .

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Welcome on board

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So glad!

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EVERYWHERE !

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Awesome! Thank you!

I take it you do re-enactments all over

Love that!

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Get it done min

Thanks for playing

I'm glad you found it too

Thank you very much!

The best reasons to go I'd say

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Not anymore... the first would get me divorced!! XD

I recently got a Sanken COS 11D. It sit's under my shirt on a sticky and has improved things enormously

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Great, thanks for getting back to me, I appreciate it. Hope the gigs go well

Seconded...

Welcome on board

With a bit of luck this summer will be our closest to normal since 2019 so travellers can travel again, properly, you would find yourself very welcome in the UK whichever of our nations you visited first.

What's pre colonial? And being of Welsh, Scots and Irish you're probably English

Steve Ferry and chance its yer dad that's from Scotland 😉

@@ScotlandHistoryTours wherevis mr ferry from

+what about the Scottish peasants left behind in scotia by a bunch of scotish norman crackheads, DeBruce was not successful in Ireland, he was defeated by his own kin, the Normans in Ireland , thankfully in Ireland we were still under the norman yolk until 1916, you Scots are still under the Norman yolk until you kick them out, even now you scots are still ruled by the Normans = anglo saxons, norman De Bruce

Just another horrible footnote in Irish history. I believe the Irish sent Edwards's head back to the king of England with words to the effect "I think this belongs to you."

@@deborahh2195 The irish? That would be debatable since he was defeated by a combioned English/Norman army, albeit with Irish allies. One thing is certain, Edward Bruce did nothing to endear himself to his supposed Irish subjects.

Cli.t at Scottish Clans Podcast does sone good stuff about the clans

The real story is a good one but not as funny as Braveheart.

Of course, for many of those perfect landscapes, you need to travel to Ireland 😍😆👍

Braveheart not being 100% historically accurate is putting it very very mildly, it's more like 98% Yank made garbage produced by an American foreigner called Randall Wallace who made William Wallace (who was a Welshman hired by Scotland) the 'Braveheart' instead of Robert I (who actually did more for Scotland) just because he had the same second name as him. It manages to get just about everything it portrays wrong with the history as a film.

Most of the landscape is infact irish since most of it was filmed in ireland.Many of the mountainous scenes were in the wicklow mountains ,the battles were on the plain of curragh kildare and the castle scenes were in meath all in a hours drive of dublin.The earlier scenes would have been scotland especially the intro

Yay

Aye I'm still across the water and we had some uploading problems

@@ScotlandHistoryTours well Bruce, when the day comes that I make my way to the home of my ancestors I hope to have a cup of coffee with ya. In my younger years a pint or a dram was more like it but as I've aged alcohol is no longer my friend but I'd be honored to buy you a cup of Joe as we say in the colonies. You sir are my absolute favorite channel on KZfaq, good evening from America!

To be fair I think they'd be too busy shooting each other rather than you