How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution remembered this Patriot's Day

Irish Central ^ | April 15, 2019 | Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D.

[WorksinKOP]

IGNORANT. Fools ALL... Learn your history, peasant.or fool.. your a hater. Plain. Simple.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Take a few deep breaths and calm down. It was a “Blazing Saddles” reference.

[ravenwolf]

The Irish are fighters, the kings of England wanted as many
Irish in their ranks as they could get because they could and
would fight and even seemed to like it.

However the Irish are not prone to believe in a power higher
than them selves so they are falling by the way side like all
other unbelievers.

[Regulator]

Mmm.

I actually agree with you, but the Catholic Irish don’t consider Scots-Irish or Ulstermen to be “Irish”.

The author of the screed conveniently neglects that little factoid.

As for persecution, perhaps you could read this:

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As for Anglican seizure of land and exterminating indigenous Irish, that is a horrific story. But a population that remained staunchly with the church that inflicted the Albigensian massacres, the Inquisition, the massacre of the French Huguenots, and of course the other wars in central Europe that you mentioned was bound to be viewed by every flavor of Protestant as a threat.

And that threat continues today. What “church” agitates relentlessly for more of their people to cross into our country against our will? The mainstay church of Mexico: Los Catolicos. Urged on by their maximum lider, El Papa.

And who helped start this little invasion of our age old antagonists? Why none other then those famous Irish Catholics, the Kennedy’s. The 1965 immigration act, Ted Kennedy egging on La Raza Unida in the early ‘70s, right to this very day....along with Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. The spiritual descendants of the San Patricios.

Mmm hmmm. Gotta pity them freedom lovin’ Irish Catholics! Cuz ain’t it a shame that the evil Protestants managed to build the world’s greatest country in spite of them? Somebody got to DO something about that.

And they are. Every day at the border, where they are violently invading the hated safe space for the Protestants.

Which ain’t really safe for us anymore, you know?

PS, my “heritage”: Anabaptist German, French Huguenot, Anglo-Saxon Anglican English, and of course, Scots-Irish (Grand MaMa was Orange Irish; she’s the only one of my ancestral line that didn’t arrive between 1681 and 1743). So I have a bit of personal interest on this...

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“It one goes to the Alamo in Texas and read the names on the walls of those heros and place of origin it is very revealing.”

Now that you mention it, I remember being surprised at all of the places the defenders of the Alamo had come from, including the one or ones from Germany. There were even one or two from New Hampshire, IIRC.

[yarddog]

Yes an Irish tribe, the Scots or Scoti settled the Western Islands and the Highlands. Lowland Scots are mostly who made up the Ulster Irish. Although the Highland Scots seem to think they are better, I think history shows the Scots-Irish were just as tough.

[Bonemaker]

“How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution remembered this Patriot’s Day”

It was the Scots Irish...Northern Ireland/Ulster...my ancestors.

[Al Hitan]

I did and I stand by my statement.

You didn't read it very closely, then. The article talks about both. A couple of quick examples:

Here, on the western frontier, they created distinctive ethnic communities, like “Little Ireland,” and “Little Dublin,” before the American Revolution

They were considered outsiders and foreigners, especially Irish Catholics

John Barry, an Irish Catholic born in Ballysampson, County Wexford, earned the well-deserved renown as the “Father of the American Navy.”

[Nifster]

Incorrect. Two linguistically distinct peoples. Scots came up from the Mediterranean across Northern Europe and Scandinavia into Scotland. The Irish bounced up the coast of Spain and around to Ireland

[Texas resident]

Same thing at the San Jacinto monument.

A lot of Irish, Scots, Germans were there.

[skepsel]

“You didn’t read it very closely, then.”

To the contrary I read the article several times as well as a number of reviews which confirmed my suspicion that the author is a hack; an indifferent scholar and poor writer specializing in grinding out middle brow drivel claiming startling new insights based on neglected materiel.

Piffle, unworthy of serious consideration .