Talk:Bruce campaign in Ireland

message: This article stops in 1315 and leaves out the critical phase of this war. Can someone please finish it??
Jdorney 17:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Tried to...Red Hurley (talk) 15:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is still nothing on the events between 1315 and 1318. What happened? Drutt (talk) 13:19, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete Article

message: I notice the title has been moved from "Bruce campaign in Ireland" to "Irish-Bruce Wars (1315-1318)". This war was a campaign by Edward Bruce against the English regime in Ireland. The new title is misleading because it implies that A) there was more than one war, and B) these "wars" were between Edward Bruce and the Irish.Are there any reliable sources that use this title? ~Asarlaí 17:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: At the moment the biography article Edward Bruce overlaps substantially with the campaign article Irish-Bruce Wars (1315–1318). I propose that 
*the section Edward Bruce#The invasion of Ireland should be condensed to a WP:SUMMARY, focusing on Edward Bruce himself, and
*the details of the the campaign, especially those less closely tied to the man, should be exclusively dealt with in the the campaign article.
The comment above from PatGallacher is still relevant: 
:Does this really merit a seperate article from Edward Bruce?
The two articles should be completely merged (I don't care at which title) in the event that it is felt that
* the man and the campaign are so closely intertwined they cannot be disentangled without large overlap; 
* or there is nothing much to say about the man other than the campaign
Personally I don't think either condition applies, even though in the short term Edward Bruce will be quite short after the bulk of its longest section is condensed. jnestorius(talk) 11:32, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge

message: The article currently includes this unattributed quote; "They personally envisioned "a grand Gaelic alliance against England" between Scotland and Ireland, since both countries had a common heritage, language and culture."  Pan-Gaelic identity did not emerge until the 19th century.  Envisioning the Bruce brothers heading a grand Gaellic alliance is fanciful historical revisionism. Ideas around a shared heritage, language and culture are equally circumspect. Dál Riata would have been more mythology than history by this point and Scots Gaellic and Irish would not have been mutually intelligible with the exception of coastal regions as follows "Scottish Gaelic in Islay and Argyll is fairly similar to Irish. The extinct dialects of northeast Ulster, particularly Rathlin Island, were also close to Scottish Gaelic. " from  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Scottish_Gaelic_and_Irish.   More importantly the Bruce spoke Ynglys/Scots from Middle Northern English.  Without today's national education to form a consistent shared historical narrative, identity politics would have been confined to loyalty to clan, kith and kin.  More correctly, they would have seen this alliance as essentially an anti-Edward I alliance within the context of "The Great Cause"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitors_for_the_Crown_of_Scotland  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Remedia8 (talk • contribs) 15:45, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I am inclined to agree with you. That aspect of the article never sat well with me. Not least as it is (as noted) uncited and unattributed. Unless there are other thoughts I agree that it should be tempered or removed. (Or at the very least tagged). Other thoughts welcome before any related action is taken. Guliolopez (talk) 16:12, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

text: He is a very smart, acute man, remarkably well skilled in the Erse, for he can both read and write the Irish language in its original character, a piece of knowledge almost quite lost in the Highlands of Scotland, there being exceedingly few that have any skills at all that way. For the Captain told me that he did not know any other person (old Clanranald excepted) that knew anything of the first tongue in its original character.... Several of the Captain's acquaintances have told me that he is by far the best Erse poet in Scotland, and that he has written many songs in the pure Irish.
Additionally, evidence in Scots suggests that non-Gael Scots were aware of the Highlanders' heritage, and considered them to be Irish. For example, the 15th century Scots language poem covering the period in question, The Wallace, consistently refers to the Highland Scottish nobility who spoke Gaelic as "Erse", and goes as far as referring to noblemen whose main holdings are in Argyll as "of Ireland". If anything, it would be much easier to argue from both Gaelic and Scots evidence that the differentiation of Gaelic identity into separate Scottish and Irish Gaelic identities only occurred in the mid-to-late 18th century with the translation of the Bible into Scottish Gaelic creating a separate written standard.
However, I will conceed that for the average Gael, this shared ethnic and linguistic identity did not (and probably never did) translate into a shared political identity (as evidenced by the failure of Bruce's appeal to exactly this), as political allegience at the time would have been FAR more localised than it now is, and for most people would have meant simply loyalty to their immediate superior in a clan or feudal system. But to emphasise this fact ignores the fact that this occurred just as divisively WITHIN both Ireland and Scotland as between Irish and Scottish clans. Neither Ireland nor Scotland was a fully unified nation in the modern sense during this period, and indeed the Lord of the Isles retained de facto independence from the crown of Scotland almost into the 16th century.
As far as historical narrative and identity politics goes, Gaels in both Ireland and Scotland would have certainly have felt a closer sense of kinship between each other than either would have with the Germanic Scots or English, as in the 13th century the clans transmitted their history orally, and the oral tradition provides a mythological descent for the Gaels reaching back as far as the Fianna and (post-Christianisation) to the Israelites in Egypt beyond that. This mythological geneology was commonly told on both sides of the sea.
I'm not a historian, nor a particularly capable writer, so I probably lack the skill to update or improve the article or to source out references, but I just felt it was important that someone made these points before any decision was taken. 88.108.89.83 (talk) 20:56, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shared Gaelic Identity Politics 

message: Amazing to see how this article totally overlooks or most likely intentionally ignores the fact Edward became hated by Hiberno-Norman and Gaelic Irish alike after his time in Ireland. Even the Irish annals bemoan him as a scourge upon them. Article has other flaws too but I suppose it helps support myth. Mabuska (talk) 23:33, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Mobile editing does not lend well to lengthy additions so until I have access to my PC I can't at the moment otherwise I would have. Mabuska (talk) 13:33, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy in Ireland