It a footnote in History... The Irish/Scots/et al who fought for freedom were sent to the reaches of the British Empire for the profit of British Subjects. We survived and some cases prospered in our own ways. The world is full of the descendents of these Rebels. I am proud to be descended from one of these men, James Claghorn a survivor of the Battle of Dunbar, and the march that followed.
Its good these chapters in History are there to remind us of the past. We cannot change it, but because of it, we have in some ways grown better for it.