Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot
Irish tartans are a modern innovation; check out this article on Matt Newsome's blog:

http://blog.albanach.org/2005/11/iri...artans-in.html

If you can trace your Irish ancestors to a particular area in Ireland, you could always wear one of the county tartans -- and there are also "general" tartans like the St. Patrick's, the Irish National, Ulster, etc.

Cheers,

Todd
Most all tartans are a modern invention. It all goes back to one english queens birthday party and a rush to recreate the once outlawed tartans.
It's a great story and I like to add that the irish were there too. We were serving :-P

Slainte ;-)