Irish vs. Scottish Dance 

If you look at the start, they are very, very similar. They're cousin cultures after all!

@@MsZoedog66 Irish is way better and there isn't one style of dance.

Speak for yourself I know which was which before they even started dancing.

@@MrSchizoid405 That’s your opinion and I respect it but personally I think Highlnad dancing is better and maybe I’m being a little biased but who cares Irish dancing is still gorgeous tho.

@@mikeyy2510 Scottish dances are brute like.

Irish is better much more fun to watch.

@@MrSchizoid405 what do the English and Welsh have to say? Any similar dances?

@@melvinmelville7073 No

@@MrSchizoid405 I thought so.

Livy Many americans think we are the same,irish americans wearing kilts

I myself a, irish and I think that the scots are just as good

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Cos the Irish never bowed down to the crown and never will

@@Mickey.Doyle80 if you knew Scottish history you'd know that the Act of Union was unpopular with most Scottish people. I grew up in Ireland and Scotland for a bit.

Actually, that'd be really cool. Or like a dance-dialogue between the two different styles💗🌵🌸✌️

I wouldn’t fuse them as they are a cultural dancing 💃 but I get where you are coming from 😁

The scots will always be better no matter what

Ya same

Erin go bragh!

Same!!!

Scottish rules! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Storms End No it was the dancing masters who decided the old form sean nos was undignified with arms flailing about.Sean nos is still around and going strong though not known aswell internationally as the style above.

Cook iie that is the opposite of me but I respect your opinion

A bloody sea separates them Gaelics.

Bagpipes aren't Scottish, you're right most Americans exposure of celtic culture is Irish.

Bagpipes are Scottish though. Ireland has Uilleann Pipes which are very similar but you don’t blow them​@@MrSchizoid405

Owen Mcgee idk ,but the gaelic league before independence seem to have been the main driver and before that the french dance masters rather than the state and the CLRG up to present not the state,never heard of the state running irish dance.Another misconception is that the catholic church is responsible for the hands by the side style no while the gaelic leaguers were catholic and had catholic sensibilities it was them rather than the catholic church ,because they wanted to protray the irish as disciplined in contrast to the way we were considered under british rule,they also tried to get rid of the more free moving sean nos style which did not work thankfully its thriving.The gaelic league were also responsible for camogie more associated now with the GAA.Only for the gaelic league and the GAA we wouldn't have a country however there is something fake about feis style dancing and sean nos and older forms of the dance are more authentic.

@@galoglaich3281 Aonach Tailteann festivals (1924, 1928, 1932) were state-funded and included Irish dancing competitions. My maternal grandfather's sister won one of those competitions. I guess the issue simply is: dancing competitions, as opposed to ordinary dance, are something different to popular culture/customs.

@@owenmcgee8496 Yes but they were events held only for a few weeks every four years.The problem with the tailteann is that it was state run and when there is a change of government priorities change .

I do highland and I agree that irish may be harder to do in the speed of footwork required but in highland i think if an irish dancer attempted extended high cuts they wouldn't last 10 seconds. Took me over a year to get double tap high cuts, extended ones are very difficult.

Tbh I think the slower leg movement in highland is harder but that might just be me, certainly both are hard but I always feel like gravity is working against me with highland, Irish looks like it uses more momentum for the movements

What I understand is that the English outlawed Irish dancing. The legend/myth I heard was that the point of the dance was that your legs dance around the room while keeping your upper body stiff so when the English saw you thru the window the would see nothing going on. That's a simple brief explanation there's much more interesting stories. Finn McCool, CuCulain etc...I believe the Roman's may have outlawed Irish dancing long before the English did.

@@jamesevans9014 There was no Roman rule in Ireland, until recently we didn't even know if they had been there, but an archaeological site has turned up evidence of one Roman encampment. So far, nothing more.

hannahtikvah the very beginning before we break off is Highland.

The one in the green.

It sounds like "Maid behind the bar" although I'm not 100% sure.

Red is Highland Green is Irish I think

arms pinned to the sides not moving is Irish, arms with more movement in them is Scottish.

I thought the one Irish was the one in Green 🤣

She is🤔

@@little_moth Ok. If you're right I have another question. My next question is: Why is the Irish girl dancing in the Scottish style, and the Scottish girl dancing like she's Irish.

@@DAVENESCOTT are you colourblind? I did highland for like 10 years and the girl in red is very obviously doing highland and the girl in green is doing Irish, what are you on about

@@butasimpleidiotwizard I think it's cus the Scottish girl had shoes on whilst the Irish girl didn't, and Irish dancings most identifiable feature is its tap dance work, and so he assumed the girl in red, since she was wearing the shoes, must be the Irish dancer.

Are you talking about clogging? Buck dancing? that's of Irish origin no scottish in there.

@@MrSchizoid405 not of irish origins. irish dancing only appeared in 1895 having been adopted from scottish stepdance.

@@brucecollins4729 Irish dancing long predates any dancing in Scotland appearing in the 16th century, that's the 1500s btw, mentioned by Richard head and Henry Sydney ‘In every field a fiddle, and the lasses footing till they all of a foam.. - The only dance that exists in scotland in the records is highland dancing. You need to accept reality, you go from every video and post lies trying to make scotland ireland, which is sad. Everything in Scotland originated elsewhere in Ireland or England.

@@MrSchizoid405 you need to do some research. i,m auld enough to know when irish music started in the late 50s early 60s when bands like the clancies and dubliners sprung up and adopted the scottish style.scottish stepdance originated in the hebrides . made its way to canada in the 1600s. fiddle reels /strathpeys are indigenous to scotland as are jigs and hornpipes to england. the fiddle entered ireland in the late 1700s from scotland. 100s of irish fiddle tunes are actualy scottish as are many irish sangs auld and modern. irish dancing on started in ireland in 1895 after some scotsmen invited two irishmen to a st andrews ceilidh night in london (ceilidhs being scottish in origin adopted by the irish who had their first ceilidh a few years later). look up....the globalization of irish stepdance...there are other sites where you will see them wearing kilts,reel shoes and ghillie shoes. all scottish in origin. scottish stepdance is still alive in canada.

@@brucecollins4729 Stop posting your nonsense I debunked already. Scottish step dancing is a modern invention centuries after Irish step dancing was created. the evidence shows that Modern Irish fiddles entered Ireland from Italy after its creation in 1550 and made its way up to Scotland in the 17th century from Ireland, with older forms of fiddles in ireland since the 9th century. See previous Richard head and Sydney's quotes on Irish step dancing and fiddles in the 1500s. And the type of music and step dancing you're referring to is mentioned in America in the 18th and 19th centuries long before your myth story, not a product of the Clancy brothers you moron. Irish step dancing was introduced into Scotland from Ireland in the highlands, but never gained any popularity in wider Scotland, it was in canada from Irish immigrants that adopted Irish dance that the scottish step dancing originated and in canada.. You can't do research you're an idiot.

Inga Ziuriene it is not

Rhona Miller actually it is messed up. The Irish dancer doesn’t have enough skill to be put up against the highland dancer. If they took a better Irish dancer they would be doing more interesting steps and it would look more interesting.

I agree.If they had an Irish dancer in his/her hard shoes and they were more advanced it would have been more enjoyable

Both dancers have been nationally ranked and highly successful in their respective styles. This choreography was about showing some of the similarities in movements and comparing some of the more difficult movements in each style.

I thought all white people are the same? Same region of the world!

No the scottush are Britons the Irish are Geals.

They come from different historical celtic tribes. They have commonalities in historical language (though still different). Irish and Scots Gaelic come from a similar family of language.

Erin go bragh vs. Alba gu braith.

@@melvinmelville7073 Erin wins every time.

Miss Nobody I agree ahah and I'm also Scottish and do Irish dance I just hate the way that Scottish knees are bent and always sticking out it just looks terrible

Sameee

*I am offended* 😂 Lol I’m the other way around, I have a lot of Irish in me but I do Scottish dancing

The woman in green was doing Irish dancing, she just wasn’t wearing the tapping shoes