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1 Citation When I wrote this those many months ago I was a Hillary Clinton supporter who knew that something had to change in America or the country I was born in, went to war for and died in was going to be lost to a bunch of theocrats that would descend, technorati.com
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Ulster Heritage Newsletter Launched 1 Citation Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }, technorati.com
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1 Citation St. Patrick?s Day is only a couple of weeks off, and one of the things you'll always find plenty of at that celebration is shillelaghs. The shillelagh is a wooden cudgel associated with the Shillelagh Forest in County Wicklow, Ireland, famous for its once massive stands of oaks. As often seen in depictions of leprechauns, shillelaghs appear to be nothing more than Irish walking sticks, and they certainly are that. But consider another G, technorati.com
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Raise your glass to Mr. Robert Burns 1 Citation Scots-Irish or not, you may already be aware that this year is the 250th anniversary of the widely loved Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). Many of the bard's songs and poems have become international favorites - even among those who find his use of Scottish lowland dialect difficult to decipher. If you find yourself in Franklin, NC this week, you might want to track down The Friends of the Scottish Tartans Museum. They, like lovers of Burns everywhere, host an annual Burns Supper, a celeb, technorati.com
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1 Citation We can't know who we are unless we know where we've come from......... "Freedom is the noblest of all things" William Wallace The Scots-Irish: The Thirteenth Tribe For the original Quaker and Puritan settlers of the thirteen colonies, largely English in origin, the emigrants of Ulster, an increasingly common sight, were usually described as ?Irish.? To counter this misconception the newcomers adopted the older description of ?Scots?. It was in this semantic exchange that a new breed t, technorati.com
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1 Citation A Scots Irish Christmas TaleThis is a delightful Christmas scene by Joe McMaster, born in Ballymena, County Antrim and now living in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. The rising smoke from the old stone chimney had lost its battle with the cold night air as it floated and floundered and fell back down to earth. Aye! down it came and gently curled around the red-berried tree. Smoke from Stone, technorati.com
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1 Citation Khon Muang: People and Principles of North Thailand (Beautiful & Educational Books on the Peoples of South China): Andrew Forbes, David Henley Editorial Reviews Product Description The Khon Muang, or ?People of the Principalities?, inhabit the hills and valleys of Northern Thailand - formerly known as Lanna, or the ?Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields.? In times past the people of the north spoke a different language to the central Thais. They dressed differently, women wore their hair long, technorati.com
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Banastre Tarleton, re the Presbyterians and Scots-Irish 1 Citation from Tarleton's memoirs:"All Presbyterian churches are shops of sedition.""... the Irish were the most averse of all other settlers to the British government in America.", technorati.com
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