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Thread #44763   Message #663084
Posted By: greg stephens
05-Mar-02 - 11:39 AM
Thread Name: Ulster Scots Music ?
Subject: RE: Ulster Scots Music ?
Teribus,sure the Scots originated in Ulster,as any skoolboy nose.They wandered over to Scotlandaround 400AD didn't they, speaking a Gaelic type language judging by all the place-names.What I thought was weaselly was in referring to them as the original inhabitants ofUlster,which is another thing altogether. What about your man who built them damn great tomb thingies? And the stone axe factory workers on Rathlin? And anyway,weren't people talking about Ulster Scots who talk a special language that sounds a bit like English who live in Northern Ireland now and have a band to prove it; not about hairy Gaelic speaking seamen heading for Argyll in the Dark Ages.Clutching bodhrans, bagpipesa and shortbread tins no doubt