Interesting email from an Irish fellow about Irish kilts.

[macwilkin]

That certainly is possible. I was just throwing in what came to mind first. I do know that all too many people take movies as accurate historically, and before movies, plays. This is a problem that goes all the way back to Shakespeare. (I seem to remember his putting in a line about a clock striking in Julius Caesar.

More than possible, I would say...I use the Irish as my example when I discuss immigration in the 19th century in my American history classes.

It's in those same classes where I have to "clean up" the mess that "historical" movies make.

T.

[Sir Robert]

Ireland and Scotland have been swapping DNA for at least 2000+ years. To say that there is much differance is to be ignorant of the facts. Lets go back 1000 years, there would be zero differance between the two. 100 years ago the Irish population viewed the Scottish Highlanders as Cousins if not Brothers. In fact Irish Nationalists arround that time (1900) encurraged the wear of Kilts as being as being more Irish than the English fashons.

Further, I was watching a video about the IRA in the 1970s and the IRA had a bagpiper in a kilt at a funeral. If the IRA say that the bagpipe and kilt are Irish then I would accept it as having some truth to it.

Yeah the Plastic Paddies are sad, the Irishman who knows nothing about his own past is sadder still.