Then they played the same trick on the Irish with the potato famine and so our consanguinous brothers and sisters were likewise expelled to the States and enabled the Celtic or Scots-Irish ethnicity to make contributions to the world far outsize to their original positions in the UK.
My grandmother’s side are Irish that came here before the 1800s so I’m Scots Irish. I did the DNA thing after years of research and I’m Scot, Irish, Welsh and Dane with very little else. I traced the Scotish side back to the 12th century. My Scottish ancestor fought with Washington in the revolution.