
And if you didn’t eat the official Irish National Food consisting of corned beef and cabbage on that day you were considered peculiar……or at the very least, disloyal.
Well, I’ve had enough of that blarney!
First of all, I’ll bet you could count on one hand…the number of kids at CHS when we were there who were really of Irish descent.
Most of us were of SCOTCH IRISH descent. There’s a big difference. These were members of Celtic tribes that once dominated central Europe
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According to Wikipedia:
“In the early seventeenth century when James I ascended to the English throne in 1603, one of his main objectives was to civilize the uncontrolable, autonomous Irish - the majority of whom were Catholic. James I’s chosen action plan to accomplish this objective was to begin an extensive colonization plan which emigrated English protestants, Presbyterian Scots, and even French and German protestants from their homelands into Ireland during the early 1600's. He especially concentrated on the Ulster region which located in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland and lies closest, geographically, to England and Scotland compared to the rest of Ireland.”
These restless and individualistic people were the ones who basically settled the Southern USA….first in the Piedmont region; our part of the world.
And what kind of people were they?
This is how James Webb described them in his book, Born Fighting:
“In their insistent individualism they are not likely to put an ethnic label on themselves. They don’t go for group-identity politics any more than they like to join a union. To them, joining a group and putting themselves at the mercy of someone else’s collectivist judgment makes about as much sense as letting the government take their guns. And nobody is going to get their guns."


