BURNS SUPPER – January 25 [haggis]

National Day Calendar ^ | January 25, 2023 | Staff

[Myrddin]

The perpetually updating DNA ancestry has me quantified at 31% Scottish, 29% Welsh, 16% Irish, 14% English, 8% Swedish, 2% Finnish. Both parents have Scot/Welsh ancestry. The Irish is on my mom's side only. My wife developed an interest in watching the Outlander series. It turns out that she has an ancestor that survived the battle at Culloden.

[Bonemaker]

Try the “Gay Gordon” on a belly full of Scotch and haggis!

[Bonemaker]

[Red Badger]

Ping!.................

[Verginius Rufus]

Did she have to eat haggis?

My ancestors lived in Carrick (southern Ayrshire). There are several places where people of that surname lived but we don't know which of them might be our direct ancestors. I went there, and also to Edinburgh, Glasgow and up to the Orkney Islands.

A lot of the Protestant settlers of northern Ireland in the 1600s came from southwestern Scotland. By the 1700s a lot of them were fed up with the British government and went to the American colonies, where they tended to be very strong supporters of independence during the American Revolution.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Funny how the Presbyterian “Scotch-Irish” did a full 180 about 100 years later and became the most ferociously British people you will find anywhere in the UK, including England.

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, conditions had changed by the late 19th/early 20th century, when the main issue became maintaining their dominance in Ulster (vs. the Irish Catholics). I think Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, stirred up the issue for his own political advantage.