What makes Scottish Culture unique from Irish Culture?
There certainly are cultural differences between the Scots and the Irish. However, when viewed in historical perspective, those differences begin to look like similarities. Please see the resources at the following Web sites: Who Are The Celts? A Brief History Pan-Celticism The Clan Irwin Association This Scottish Clan has existed for more than ten centuries and continues today; historic in its contribution to the nation of Scotland; central to the Scottish ‘Plantation of Ireland’; and impressive in the importation of culture and strength to the American colonies by the Scots and the Scots-Irish. The line reaches back to the High Kings of Ulster (Ireland) and has come unbroken to this day. Kilt Stuff The only sensible definition of Scottishness is a cultural one. Today there are thousands of Scottish people whose ancestors were Irish, Asian or Italian, or even English, and these people have far more rights to Scottishness than those people whose modern cultures are English or American,
