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It has come to my attention, principally through reading and very informal research that the practice of kirkin' the tartan was likewise a practice among the Highlanders and the Irish Catholic who had intermarried and hid oput in the Highlands, being principally Jacobites, all. [In the Highlands today there are still strong intermarriage histories between Scots and Irish Catholic. one cannot walk in the upper Highlands and not hear the very distinct Irish Gaelic brogue blending with the Scots burr; it is musical] There is an old song Mo Ghile Mear [My gallant Darling] a song about Prince Charles Edward Stewart of whom the irish Catholics were great supporters and who fought at Culloden moor on his behalf. It is still sung today, especially with passion in some "Republican circles" So it has come to me by inference that this practice existed among them too, though to much lesser degree. i have referred to this in an epic poem I penned some years ago. i make no pitch here; I am principally an historian in this.

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