asked if i was irish

[The Thing]

In closing, Jock in Skye, the Irish regiments of the British Army only became largely Orangist after the First World War. The Inniskilling Fusiliers mutinied in India because they regarded themselves as citizens of an Irish republic.
The usage of kilts in the Irish regiments has been discussed at length elsewhere.
Regards,
Mike

It was the Connaught Rangers that mutinied and only after many Irish towns and cities had been burned and many innocents killed by the Bllack and Tans and Auxilliary forces. The India mutiny was in 1920, many of the mutineers had been great war veterans and served with pride in the British Army. The Inniskillens were very Irish in their make up and recruited largely from old Gaelic areas of Ulster, Cavan, Fermanagh, Donegal, Monaghan and Tyrone. The period of the formation of the two states of Ireland is a very sad one.