Barack Obama: 'Work still to be done in Northern Ireland'

[Albion]

For any American, remember that many of Northern Irish Protestant backgrounds, were fighters in Americas independence.

Scots from the Borders especially, & English there in fact. Moved over in the first place, they were in severe poverty.

Some American Presidents, are decedents from those folk.

And that just decades ago, Catholic Irish were looked down upon in America. It seems latter generations forgot history and forgot which "Irish" they were descended from.

[Graham]

We have a history with Ulster to Donegal that predates the Colonists. I'd rather Ireland was United & Scotland independent. If any of the Norn Irish wish to come over they can after this.

btw Anyone notice how Scottish Rory McIlroy sounds? lol

[Svipdag]

Whatever work remains to be done in Northern Ireland is none of our (USA's) DAMNED business. Let's see if, FOR ONCE we can mind our own business and refrain from meddling in the internal affairs of other countries.


"That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

[The Lawspeaker]

Whatever work remains to be done in Northern Ireland is none of our (USA's) DAMNED business. Let's see if, FOR ONCE we can mind our own business and refrain from meddling in the internal affairs of other countries.


"That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

Hear hear !

[rhiannon]

And that just decades ago, Catholic Irish were looked down upon in America. It seems latter generations forgot history and forgot which "Irish" they were descended from.

I know about this history. It's one reason Irish Americans now eat corned beef and cabbage during their St Paddy's celebrations...as compared to their proper Irish counterparts in Ireland who eat cabbage with bacon rather than corned beef. The Irish were looked down upon for eating pork, initially.

[Eddie Quist]

Most people in England, Scotland and Wales would be glad to see NI part of the republic.

The IRA and INLA saw to that already we defeated you.

As for compensation, send the request to Edinburgh, Unionists that shout the loudest are all of Scottish origins.

Lowland Scots and Ulster Plantation are from English stock, bill London.

[The Lawspeaker]

The IRA and INLA saw to that already we defeated you.

Only in your imagination. If the British would take their gloves off they would wipe the whole of Ireland into the North Sea in less than two days. They just can't be arsed to do so.

Lowland Scots and Ulster Plantation are from English stock, bill London.

I think the name "Scots" says that they are Scottish.. not English.

[Graham]

Lowland Scots and Ulster Plantation are from English stock, bill London.

It's not as black/white as this.. That is more of a South East thing. Eastern Borders to East Lothian..

Many Scots that live in the Lowlands now, have ancestry from North of Glasgow-Edinburgh.. Scots migrated inwards into the Strathclyde area, like the Irish from around 18th, 19th, early 20th century..

Another reason Scots moved over the Irish Sea, was in fact because of the 'ill years' 1690s. A famine that killed at least 1/10th of our Population. One of the reasons, in why we joined the UK.

A bunch of Scots migrants escaping famine, who weren't accepted by the native Irish. Moved over the sea again to America.




The very same Rich Scottish land owners, also shafted their own people.

[Albion]

The IRA and INLA saw to that already we defeated you.

NI is still in the UK, the power-sharing only exists because London agrees to it.

Lowland Scots and Ulster Plantation are from English stock, bill London.

Not really, the Lowland Scots have spoken Cumbric, Galloway Gaelic and finally Scots, they're not really English accept in Lothian and the Scottish borders. Your pathetic country won't get a penny out of London, we've already given you loans and aid when your banks collapsed.

[Albion]

Only in your imagination. If the British would take their gloves off they would wipe the whole of Ireland into the North Sea in less than two days. They just can't be arsed to do so.


I think the name "Scots" says that they are Scottish.. not English.

I don't think we'd be popular if we invaded Ireland again, but it wouldn't exactly be hard to surround with a navy, nuke or simply roll in the tanks. Actually, probably just walking into Ireland from Belfast would work.