But my references do at least show that the 17thC Irish native-Scottish Prot. relationship is far more complex than the myth states.
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“But my references do at least show that the 17thC Irish native-Scottish Prot. relationship is far more complex than the myth states.”
No, actually it doesn’t. What it shows is that some Catholic became Protestants (perhaps to escape persecution just as some were induced to become Protestant in the 1840s to avoid starving to death) and that some of the invaders were Catholics themselves. None of that, however, changes the fact that the issue that divided Protestants and Catholics was religion. What you call a myth is not a myth. It is simple fact. All your measely quotes did was shows that some historians believe the events to be more nuanced than most people think. They do not show that the history is wrong along its general lines.