Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Discussing the Ulster-Scots at college
Today, we discussed the Ulster-Scots in one of my graduate history classes at university. The professor, who I rarely agree with on much considering she is a rather statist Yankee, was actually rather fair to the people of Ulster. She started with a couple comments against them but then said that when people say "Why don't they just all go back to Scotland and England?" that this is like asking all the people in America of European and African descent to go back to Europe and Africa. She pointed out that Ulster was settled by the Scots in a big way about the same time that North America was settled by Europeans. And she also did use the terms "Ulster" and "Ulster-Scots" when talking about the place and people rather than the more ambiguous "Northern Ireland" and "Scots-Irish" terms often used in America.
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Yeah both Plantations were around about the same time. I quote....
ReplyDeleteThe Plantation of Ulster was to obsess Chichester to the end of his days. In 1610 he told King James that he 'would rather labour with his hands in the Plantation of Ulster than dance or play in that of Virginia'.
We can only go back so far but who is to know if the Indians were the first people in America. Could they have displaced another people?