The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-07-30
THE SCOTCH-IRISH.

A New-Fangled Name Invented by Orange
Sy1npathizers in America
The Scotch. Irish congress met recent.
IN Atlanta, says the "Irish Pennsylva
man." Why not have congresses of thu
Firbo]g- Irish, the Irish, the Norman
Irish, the Anglo. Irish, the Palatine
Irish, and all the cross breeds that go t.
make up the Irish nation? OF all the
various races who would meet at tht
convention, the alleged Scotch Irisk
would be the only one that could not claim
some distinctness from the people who
inhabited Ireland prior to the arrival Of
the Normans. The Duke of Argyle, {
snuffy, red-headed little Scot, is the Nc
Callum More of the Gaelic Scotland
and pure type Of the money-hoarding
s'gather the siller mon" kind of Scotch.
men depicted by English writer's. We
once heard his eldest son, the Marquis OF
Lorne, the husband of the British Prin.
cess Louise, declare at a public meeting
that, while for centuries his family had
been settled in Scotland, his blood was
of the pure Milesian stock. He was moi
ashamed of his Irish origin; he did not
blush because in his veins ran the kin"
dred blood of the O'Sulllvans. The race
of Owen (latinized the Eugenians), exiled
from their Ulster glens, divided, and one
portion settled in Caledonia, III a district
which from then was called Argyle OF
the ''Territory of the Gaels." The other
portion of Clan-Owen sailed south, and
were given lands in Kerry, where in time
they became the great confederation OF
Eugenian clans and long contested for
the supremacy of Munster with the
famed Dalcasslans under the O'Briens
Organs and O'Dwyers.
We knew handsome Irishman named
Lewis, native of Cahir, in the county OF
Tipperary. He belonged to the water
police in Quebec, and was selected as or
derby to Princess Louise. He was daily
in conversation with the plpers of Lord
Lorne, and thsy invariably spoke the
Gaelic tongue, understanding eachother
readily, with perhaps trifling difference
in accent.
We have McDonnells common to Ire
land and Scotland. We have Irish
Grants whose ancestors never set foot in
Scotland. The McKenzies of Scotland
are descended from banished scion of
the Desmond Geraldines. The Lynd-
says come from one of the Lynotts, who
escaped the massacre of his family by
the Barretts of Tirawley in Connaught.
For every Kennedy in Scotland we have
two in Ireland.
The job sons and Jacksons hailing
from Tyrone are simply McShanes. Some
of the McShanes apostatized and Angli-
cized their names to johnson and Jack
son (Shane or Shawn is the Irish equiva-
lent for John and Nc in Irish stands
for ssson," so that Anglicized McShane is
the son of John or johnson or Jackson)
O'Neills became Nelson's; O'Donnell,
Donaldsons; McEaghans, Owensons; Nc
Eyoys or Macan Bundle (the son of the
yellow haired), became Boyds, and so on
through a long list of names. We can
trace men to-day claiming to be Scotch
Irish, whose fathers had never set foot
on Scottish heath unless as predatory
free-booters from the Irish coast
John Roach, the old Pennsylvania
ship builder, was also claimed as a
Scotch .Irishman, in spite of the fact that
since the days of the Normans Cork aud
Kerry have been their cradle districts
John Roach's Oldest son is Garrett, and
Garrett Reaches are thick as blackber.
ries from Dingle to the Blackwater.
This whole idea of Scotch Irish is new
tangled notion, first promulgated in
America It. was born Of sheer ignor.
ance, and pharisaical, Calvinistic pride
There never was true whole-souled
Irishman yet who, unless he was ignor.
ant of facts, would claim such bastard
naongrel origin.
The name was not known when glori.
GUS Henry Joy McCracken and Harrie
Monroe led the Irish Northern Presby
terians against the British at Ballyna
hinch. The term would have baen re-
sented in scorn by Hamilton Rowan
Samuel Nelson, William Simpson, Will
liam Orr, and the grand northern heroes
of '98. The words Scotch-Irish have
emanated from the brain Of some baw.
bee-scraping lowland Scotchman since
old Andrew Jackson, with the fires Of
Shane O'Neill blazing in his eyes, gave
an Irish-American greeting to the BRITISH
hirelings at New Orleans.
We admire the Scottish Gael; We
recognize in them common virtues and