| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2012-01-03, 8:42 PM | Message # 1 |
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| This was written by a Dublin women called Katharine Tynan back. When she mentions the border it must be the traditions and culture of Ulster she writes of,as the political border didn't exist when this was written. She paints a picture of a people who are Scots in behaviour and outlook but also compares them with their 'Lancashire brothers'
That north-east corner of Ireland which no Celt looks upon as Ireland at all. In speech, in character, in looks, the people become Scotch and not Irish. One has crossed the border and Celtic Ireland is left behind.
there is nothing Irish about north-east Ulster except the country itself.
like his Scotch progenitors, he stands by the Bible. There is as much Bible-reading in the fine red-brick mansions of Belfast as there is in Scotland.
the Belfast man has the Scottish love of education. He has many of the homespun Scottish virtues, and much less than the Scottish love of money.
Finn, the Irish giant, invited a Scotch giant over to fight him... I believe that the Scottish giant came and stayed. You see his children all over North-East Ulster
He is blunt and brusque in his speech and manner,and so not unlike his Lancashire brother
http://www.archive.org/stream....2up
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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