Seems to me that Irish Catholics in North America are more conscious of their history and culture than the Irish Protestants. Perhaps because they felt more foreign?
It's more that they took to calling themselves "Scots-Irish" to avoid being associated with the Catholic Irish. Quite ludicrously, given their ancestors left Lowland Scotland (and England and Wales) in early 17C, some of them take to wearing kilts and 'Highland Games'. Some still have a 17C Calvinist mind-set, too, having missed the Scottish Enlightenment (as in regarding Pattie's death as some sort of jihad).
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Date: 2009-03-18 06:36 pm (UTC)It's more that they took to calling themselves "Scots-Irish" to avoid being associated with the Catholic Irish. Quite ludicrously, given their ancestors left Lowland Scotland (and England and Wales) in early 17C, some of them take to wearing kilts and 'Highland Games'. Some still have a 17C Calvinist mind-set, too, having missed the Scottish Enlightenment (as in regarding Pattie's death as some sort of jihad).