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Picts in Ireland

will do it when I get back. just quickly before I go, if you're looking on the web, be wary of anything by Ian Adamson. he's a unionist MP in the north who wrote a book about the Cruithni in Ireland, and it's used by some unionists to argue "that they were there first" and so Catholics have less right to be in the north than them

the fact that Catholicism and Protestantism didn't exist at the time seems to be overlooked conveniently, but the spin is that the Cruithni were driven out of Ireland by the "Celts" and so when the 17th century plantations took place, that was merely the "Cruithni" taking back what was rightfully theirs!

Cheers
Andy

I hate modern racist/sectarian distortions of history. It either denies what really happened or constructs things that never happened - or both!

The web is a great place for the exchange of ideas, but as you say - we have to be careful of other agendas and nail the lies when we can.

I'm Irish so i grew up with that "excuse" that the Celts were only being driven back out of a land they took off someone else. so i'm well aware of it (i didnt knew it was the picts they were talking about though). there is a large amount of people who put a lot of stock in that arguement, sadly.