The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-02
NORrH AND s0nrH IRIsR.
listers Uitrs-CeltlC and Pain Irish blood
Asserted.

To THE EDIToR OF TIRE Sun Sir. A. TO
the distinctions between tho North and South
Irish suggested by p r. D.. It appears to
me that he labors under a very common
delusion about the inhabitants Of Ireland.
namely. that q difference Of religious faith
means a difference in race or nationality.
The comparatively few Scots who came 10
Ulster were distinctly Celtic, n names indie
cate anything and we're returning 70 the land
from which their ancestors had gone some
centuries before 20 conquer the Picts and
other natives. That they had gone over to
Presbyterianlsm, or their fathers had did not
change their blood: aud that they had the
military and migratory habits Of their Celtic
forbears their course in America indicated.
While land laws and landlords sent many
Ulstermen TO America during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, the same causes plus
famines. sent az numerous brood from Mum
ster and Ieinster Massachusetts did NOS
love the Irish, whether they saved their souls
through Geneva or Rome; and IL forced them
to the Indian frontier. then New Hampshire.
Governor Dongan, Kildare man, introduced
many Of his co-reli Rionists 10 New York. Penn
sylvania and the AlleRhany regions got Irish
from all sections: but the lack OF Church es.
Establishments and priests sent the children Of
the first generation into the various reformed
Churches Of their neighbOThoods. The Caro-
hnas received a large Irish emigration IN the
early eighteenth century, a fact which led 70
Of tie Plantation
While a great emigration from provinces
not be forgotten that Tie %retohsd ssfaTiSn,
reli Rious and governmental conditions OF
Ireland kept the stream OF humanity from
that island flowing steadily before and after
the Revolution: and while the French Revolu-
ton and the Empire with thor wars practically
stopped emigration from England and COM
tinental Europe they rather stimulated Irish
enni grafton TO America by closing one OF the
most ancient channels OF escape from English
mlsgov ernrn ent--the armies OF France
The peculiarities OF the En- Elish nayiEatioA
acts made all legal emigration pass througd
English ports in In gllsh bottoms under Eng
lsh names, and Thousands Of eIileR from eins
Eter and Munster sailed for America froIa
! am OF opinion that The majority Of Ulster
Il vastly more Celtic in its composition than
Leinster and Munster. for in thess latter
RTISSN9cei there is large SdmlHtHTe ~ Eng ,t
children OF the mixture have Ike the Nors
mans, become thoroughly lrisl-
The Ulstermen who came Va America were
thoroughly lrsh-plain Irish, they called
themselves Irish; their nelghbors. who did
not love their superintendent energy and
pugnacity. called them Irish: and they called
their towns and localities by Irish names
While they might cordially disagree to uss
a mild term with their Catholic countrymeh
reli giOusly, they were At one with them In
mon enemy In 1879. and that common enemy
abused them vigorously without any mics
distinctions as Irish. The FISHERMAN IA =
Celt, whether he bo DONEGAL man ignorant
OF English or an Antrim man with a Scotch
burr: and they all have the same cool. cau-
tious. canny ways until fight is 70 the fore.
when the fierce DugnaCitv and Joy Of battle
come out, as IN all OF them. whether DONEGAL.
them.
II historians and readers OF history win
rid themselves Of the odiym fhColo0iettTn. the
IRISH ethnc question won't puzzle them.
LOWELL, March 20. JosEPH sHTH.