The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114457   Message #2442847
Posted By: GUEST,ND
17-Sep-08 - 04:40 AM
Thread Name: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Subject: RE: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
It's hypocritical of Rangers fans and other ignorant Scots to sing the "Famine Song". If they know their own history, countless Scots themselves suffered famine particularly in the Highlands where many had their clan lands taken from them and ammalgamated into English gentry owned estates.

Many hungry Scots emigrated to Canada and the USA, as did the Irish.

What if earlier settled British Columbians, Quebecians and Nova Scotians started to tell the Scots in those places to go home?

One thing the Scots forget or don't want to remember: The original Scoti were from Ireland, they migrated over to what is now Scotland and displaced or intermarried with the native Pictish.

Ireland > Scoti > Scotland.

Go figure.