[I] you are misinterpreting our purpose for writing the article. It was not ever meant to be a slant against the Irish, one way or the other. If anything, it is attempting to tell the real story/I] AND You say it makes it sound as if we are "pulling everything back to a Scottish heritage," and in a sense we are
They have the appearance to contradict each other. I'm sure that was not your intention, but what it appeared to me. Every thing Tartan/Plaid/Kilt did not originate in Scotland.
There is no contradiction, I assure you. One can correctly point out that the use of the kilt in Ireland was inspired by Scottish tradition, without it being "a slant against the Irish." There is nothing anti-Irish in the fact that Irish kilt wearers borrow from Scottish tradition.