The Reverend James McGreger minister of Aghadowey in county Londonderry and a defender of Londonderry during the 1688-1689 siege wrote to Colonel Samuel Shute, Governor of new England colony shortly after his arrival from Ulster in 1718 with several hundred Presbyterians from the Bann valley around Coleraine, Ballymony and Macosquin. “We are surprised to hear ourselves termed Irish people when we so ventured all for the British crown and liberty.” The Rev Dr John Macintosh of Philadelphia and an Ulsterman made this statement “ From Derry to Down I have lived with them every town and hamlet from the Causeway to Carlingford is familiar to me it has been said that the Ulster Scots settlers mingled with the Celt----The Ulster Scots mingled freely with the English puritans and with the refugee Huguenots; but so far as my search of state papers and old manuscripts, examination of old parish registers and years of personal talk with and study of Ulster folk disclosed-the Scots did not mingle to any appreciable extent with the so called Celtic native Irish.” To this very hour, in the remoter parts of Antrim and Down the country folk will tell you “Were no Eerish bot Scoatch” all their folklore all their tales, their traditions, their songs, their poetry, their heroes and heroines, and their home speech is of the oldest Scots Lowland types and times. The early wave of Ulster Scots families to America had still strong attachments to the British crown but these sentiments largely dissipated over the years of the 18th century and their treatment in Ulster by the British authorities didn’t help
The Catholic Irish were in the colonies before the famine the colony Of Maryland was founded by members of the O Carroll family maybe not in the same numbers as the Presbyterians Many Scots came to, 9 County Ulster as soldiers for the Gaelic Lords who were given land and married Irish women they regarded themselves as Irish and resisted the plantation The term British begins in 1611 by James 6th /1st of ENGLAND to unite Scots English Planters of the protestant relegion against all previous people in Ulster ethnically both groups of Scots could be termed Ulster Scots? Religion was defining difference used by James and following British monarchs to oppress the majority of people in Ireland History of Ulster /Uladh is more complex in the early 17th century and is not just a binary process /propaganda by some loyalist apologists!
The great migration to America began around 1717 some folk had gone before, but had turned back, there were usually whole congregations from various Presbyterian churches along with their ministers one ship the Eagle Wing sailed from Groomsport (a seaside town 13 miles from Belfast) in 1638 although they had almost reached America which had been a struggle because of the weather their minister took this as a sign from God that they were not meant to leave Ulster. Those that did arrive in America (250,000) found to their surprise that they were given the appellation, Irish. The Ulster Scots in America were always at great pains to distinguish themselves from the so called native Irish who emigrated, In their religion and culture as in their former homeland they broadly ploughed a different furrow. Parker’s 'History of Londonderry, New Hampshire' from the 18th century relates. “ Although they came to this land from Ireland, where their ancestors had a century before planted themselves, the Scots Irish settlers retained unmixed the national Scots character …Nothing sooner offended them than to be called Irish”
14:50 to 29:40 onwards real Irish Republicanism not sectarian Sinn Féin IRA Irish Republicanism of modern times. It was Ireland finest hour 1791-1803 period of the society of United Irishmen Roman Catholic Protestant and Dissenters united or at least some of them.
Until the Presbyterian's took their thirty pieces of silver and left catholic's and anglicans to sort out Irelands problems and when we won freedom refused to join us oppressed Catholics and you have the cheek to wonder why the shinners are sectarian you croud invented sectarianism
