U2: British or Irish
So..."when did English settlers arrive"? I was referring to "English
settlers" in the abstract because the original writer wrote that Irish
Protestants are of English descent. Actually, this "English settler"
thing is tricky, because yes, a whole slew of these people were Norman
French. Hell, we could go back to the Celts themselves if we pushed it
to the logical extreme and talked about *everyone" who's ever settled in
Ireland. As for Northern Ireland, well, there was that big time Scottish
settlement around Belfast. That's where you start pushing the hot
buttons.
Oh, hell....there's a rumor circulating outside of this classroom that
we are on a U2 discussion list, not an Irish history class that we do on
the Internet. We're in the wrong classroom. There's a better room for us
called e-mail. OK, oh, gosh, here comes a demonstrator! He's opening
the door, and his sign says "U2 Rule."
Absolutely, kiddo!
Pax,
Patricia