Scots-Irish

American images of bluegrass bands and square dances originated with the Scots-Irish. Their move from Northern Ireland across the American landscape began in Pennsylvania. Learn about the history of this group and their contributions to America.

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[Reginastar28]

That shows how little you know. Scot Irish people were heavily discrimanted against in history. Most could not afford to have slaves. The majority of slave holders on America land was by the English and French. But lets don't forget where it started. Hispanics started the slave trade and had slaves long before the English and French did. But regardless that is in the past.

[AbcSchoolOfPolish]

Very interesting video. Thanks for posting this.

[Irishrogue61mak3]

@irishaware

WTF does a papist know about Ulster/Scots?

Go back to sucking your priest's cock and mind your own fucking business.

Pikey cunt.

[irishaware]

@MiamiDolphinsClyde10

That is correct according to factual DNA stuides.

But the mythical scots irish despite all factual evidence - like to (have to) believe the Irish all came from Britain first.

Americans invented this BS, most of them were poor Irish emigrants with no religion just looking for a living. Religion was imposed on them and later a new invented race so called Scots Irish.

Scots is a Roman word and means Irish

So these fools are in historical fact calling themselves Irish-Irish

[Britcenturion]

@Reginastar28 maybe they had few slaves in the USA but they certainly made up for slave ownership in the Caribbean you only have to take a look at the surnames present in Jamaica today, but yes lots were discriminated against, many Irish in the beginning went over to the new world as slaves! thanks to Cromwell

[hyzercreek]

@Reginastar28 No, the Portugese brought them to Brazil. They were enslaved in Africa by other Africans. Usually there was tribal warfare in Africa and the winner of the war would bring the conquered people to the sea ports to sell them to the Portugese. But the Portugese never went into Africa to enslave anybody, they just bought them at the ports and they were already in chains. The Portugese never left the ship.

[Reginastar28]

@hyzercreek I said Hispanic which means people from Iberian peninsula. That would include the Portuguese. Portuguese didn't enslave Africans? Huh. How about Brazil. Portuguese enslaved Africans in Brazil.

[scotinulster]

@saoirse2011 There is truth in what you say. Unionists did want to counter-balance the funding given to the Irish language but they did not invent Ulster-Scots. It was around then that they started promoting it for the first time as it never received funding before. The point is that Scots was widely spoken here and if Scotland had become a separate independent nation then Scots would have been seen as different from English as Swedish is to Danish. Sorry for the slightly late reply!

[hyzercreek]

@Reginastar28 Wrong. Slave trade was Portugese, not Spanish. And the Africans were already slaves in Africa, sold to the Portugese by other Africans. The Portugese merely bought them, they did not enslave them.

[hyzercreek]

It's Scotch-Irish, not Scots-Irish. The name was coined when Scotch was the spelling for the adjective and Scots was a noun.

[MiamiDolphinsClyde10]

the irish and their descendants are genetically basque