The Kilt's use in Irish Nationalism

[Blackrose87]

Thanks for the clarification. It is certainly true that to be registered and recorded does not de facto make any tartan official. My point was that if the Scottish government was as protective of tartan as they are Scotch whisky, an Irish tartan would never even be registered as a tartan in the first place.

Sorry for my ignorance, but seeing as the Ulster Tartan has been dated to the 16th century, why does it have less a claim of 'authenticity' than one which may have been worn in Scotland?