tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post1336627572956491334..comments2024-02-18T17:35:25.382+00:00Comments on Bloggin fae the 'Burn: <i>Ulster-Scots thoughts</i>: Objections to Ulster-Scots: Part OneMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12820251983224121718noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post-28128435636597798012017-03-28T18:09:38.679+01:002017-03-28T18:09:38.679+01:00Good point. I am a Scots-Irish descendant living ...Good point. I am a Scots-Irish descendant living in Savannah, GA. I am over 6ft tall and have a bright red beard. I often wear the plaid. My Scots Presbyterian Ulsterman ancestor William Porter, his Scots wife and three sons left the British Plantation of Ulster and came to the Effingham Co.,GA back-country in 1764. I find the Dungiven tartan/costume fascinating. Ulster during and after the reign of King James I, was a bustle with the Scots, English and Irish. The Scottish trews, English doublet and Irish mantle that they found in Dungiven in the 1950s explains the weaving of our ethnicity in a tangible way. As a side note from 1859 until 1969 there was a Robert Burns Cottage/Society in Macon, GA. Every year a Robert Burns parade was held in that city. Both my father and grandfather often attended. There is also an 18th century Tarlbaton/Dumfries Bible that the poet Robert Burns swore a Masonic oath on in the Macon Grand Lodge Museum as well. All Ulster descendants should were the Ulster tartan with pride. OSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17075406473587870264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post-75963928591709626432017-03-28T18:09:16.516+01:002017-03-28T18:09:16.516+01:00Good point. I am a Scots-Irish descendant living ...Good point. I am a Scots-Irish descendant living in Savannah, GA. I am over 6ft tall and have a bright red beard. I often wear the plaid. My Scots Presbyterian Ulsterman ancestor William Porter, his Scots wife and three sons left the British Plantation of Ulster and came to the Effingham Co.,GA back-country in 1764. I find the Dungiven tartan/costume fascinating. Ulster during and after the reign of King James I, was a bustle with the Scots, English and Irish. The Scottish trews, English doublet and Irish mantle that they found in Dungiven in the 1950s explains the weaving of our ethnicity in a tangible way. As a side note from 1859 until 1969 there was a Robert Burns Cottage/Society in Macon, GA. Every year a Robert Burns parade was held in that city. Both my father and grandfather often attended. There is also an 18th century Tarlbaton/Dumfries Bible that the poet Robert Burns swore a Masonic oath on in the Macon Grand Lodge Museum as well. All Ulster descendants should were the Ulster tartan with pride.OSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17075406473587870264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post-16232518769079108032009-03-13T00:18:00.000+00:002009-03-13T00:18:00.000+00:00Ulsterscot - Thanks for having the courage to post...Ulsterscot - <BR/>Thanks for having the courage to post a response! In general, I hope that this series of posts will put forth the case for Ulster-Scots - countering the objections that I've been mentally collating over the past while with evidence - in the hope that the wee bits of knowledge and info offered here might be useful for some folk.<BR/><BR/>I agree that no-one can define someone else's identity or set subjective parameters.<BR/><BR/>I must admit the Italian music does surprise me - but the German music is a dead giveaway... !Mark Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12820251983224121718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13344062.post-36390465086474707542009-03-12T23:20:00.000+00:002009-03-12T23:20:00.000+00:00Hmmm. Food for thought. And seemingly the food is ...Hmmm. Food for thought. And seemingly the food is haggis. No better packing.<BR/><BR/>I tend to think that we can over-intellectualise this debate. At the end of the day, the fact that I put a kilt on when I go out to play with my band doesn't make me a Scot, an Ulster-Scot or a headcase, for that matter.<BR/><BR/>It probably does illustrate and inform part of my identity but even if I never felt the gentle breeze on my nether regions, I would still be an Ulster-Scot.<BR/><BR/>I happen to wear a kilt (on appropriate occasions only) and have an abiding passion for haggis of all types - including the rather fine battered variety found in Scottish Chippies. Or should that be "Fish Shops"?<BR/><BR/>If I choose to like/do certains things it doesn't necessarily define me. If you were to look at my itunes library, I would doubt that you could be clear whether I was British, Irish, Italian (yup, a few operatic tunes in there), French, German, American or simply odd.<BR/><BR/>I am slightly uncomfortable with the feeling that by "answering" this sort of criticism, all we are doing is giving airtime to the critics. If the point is to set out the FACTUAL case for the connection between here and Scotland, more power to your elbow.<BR/><BR/>However, I'll not be told by anyone that they can define my identity or that I have no right to claim the kilt, the haggis and oaty breakfast goodness as part of my heritage!!Ulsterscothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06149346681065430370noreply@blogger.com