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7th April 10, 11:46 AM
#13
 Originally Posted by cajunscot
Rex,
(snip)you will find folks who are Evangelical Protestants wearing green on St. Patrick's Day and espousing the romantic "Irish Rebel" mythology that the Irish-American community loves over here, but whose ancestors no doubt manned Derry's Walls and fought with William at the Boyne! 
(snip)
T.
OMG, they're on the wrong track there! But how to inform them without making them militant in the other direction?...? Better leave well enough alone unless they start contributing to the "Widows and Orphans Funds" AKA the "Making Widows and Orphans Funds" -which now that I've said it are supposedly things of the past.
And yes, the Scots Irish migration included Hugenots, Border English, and other protestant groups who had sought refuge in Ulster. There aren't many heroes of the Frontier and Wild West era who were not descendants of them. They say Boone was not but I think that just needs work.
Last edited by Lallans; 7th April 10 at 01:15 PM.
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