How important is the Declaration of Arbroath..

[Lallans]

Some of the groups that emigrated to America were Covenenters. Some, and I submit most, were not. They were the usual cultural and economic refugees. The Ulster Scots who remained in Ulster were not covenenters. Almost at once, the British had to pass laws to prevent the intermarriage of Ulster Scots with Irish in Ulster, and that was one of the first things that the Ulster Scots forcefully and successfully demanded be overturned. My extended family in NI currently has so much native Irish blood and culture, and they of ours, as to be indistingishable from each other- except of course to each other by local tradition. And yet the legends continue and the conflict goes on, more or less. And the Brit Upperclass that created all this looks on distainfully. There is a lot of hope that the EU will make a positive, lasting,and final difference- and here's to that.