The Hamilton-Montgomery settlement effectively created the people now known as the “Ulster Scots”. The Ulster Scots’ identity is intimately bound up in the Protestant loyalist community’s sense of self in Northern Ireland today. Scots, says Young, “took part in a process of colonisation” in Ireland, but it was England that masterminded it. That Scottish colonisation of Ulster was part of an “ideological blueprint for a new type of society” that’s going to be created in Ireland. England’s colonisation of Ireland also importantly “predates the plantation” of Ulster by Scots.

Source: The Herald June 11, 2023 05:16 UTC