[Salamander]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29

Scots-Irish is actually used to describe the Ulster Irish, of which I am one.

[MagnoliaB]

Thanks.

[raccoonradio]

But did the coon “racial slur” come from raccoon?

Wiki under racial slur:

Coon—(US, UK) a black person. Possibly from Portuguese barracão or Spanish barracón, a large building constructed to hold merchandise, where slaves were kept for sale, anglicised to barracoon (1837).[77][78] Popularized by the song “Zip Coon”, played at Minstrel shows in the 1830s.