Recent Irish kilt question

[The Thing]

In a nutshell, to me the kilt came from the common Scoto-Irish leine.

Oh, and if you haven't picked it up after a year, the prime reason for wearing my kilt is political.

For the sake of harmony, I have vowed not to discuss the reasons why on this board.

Slainte

Bruce

Here here, I have Scottish and Irish blood in me and have studied Irish history extensively for a long time. The Common pratice of the Irish Gael and his Highland Cousin wearing the same type of Clothing of almost a thousand years was no accident, these two sister cultures were more alike than Lowland-Highland Scot. However Scotland as a nation was allowed almost 400 hundred years to develop as an Indendent Nation free from English interference. Ireland during this period and especially after the Gaelic wars in Ulster was almost destroyed, along with many of the Irish traditions including the wearing of the Irish style of clothing the leine and Brat which became the Kilt thereafter.
If Ireland had of been left alone to develop and go down the natural path of the Gael who knows where it would have led today. It's culture was almost destroyed bannished to the pages of History. So yes the Kilt does share a place in Irish history as much as Scottish history, alas by another name or a belt or two missing.