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In this video I react to are kilts from Scotland or Ireland? The history of the kilt makes so much sense to me now. I had no idea just how ingenious kilts really were at the time they were invented.
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They always forget the Welsh have Kilts as well
Yeah I’m bad for forgetting the Welsh
There’s a Northumbrian kilt too.
that's because welsh sheep get scared when they hear a zip being unfastened. lol
@@jeanlongsden1696 That made me laugh so much.
@@jeanlongsden1696damn beat me to it.
Scottish myself and proud when i wear the kilt however lets not forget our other Celtic cousins the Welsh too who also had kilts
It was the Irish gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and the Isle of man and parts of Wales the Scottish were pics from picland spoke pictish wipe out by the Saxons Irish called it Albain mac MC ní ó all irish Gael blood the Irish gaels were first inhabitants on Iceland too 60 percent of Icelandic dna Irish Gael Tál 🇮🇪 ⚓
A couple of American guys claiming to be Scottish because their family moved there a couple hundred years ago
I've heard some good stories of when Americans turn up in Scotland wearing kilts.
@@101steel4 that the same ones that can't say Glasgow properly , can play spot the American when the golf is at St Andrews
@@beardedsloth7805 Glaz cow and Edin burrow 😁
@@101steel4 oh yea you can't miss them!😂
@@101steel4 It's pronounced Edinburra and glaisga.
We also have Cornish tartan kilts in Cornwall. There is the National, hunting and St Piran Tartan. My son got married in the Cornish tartan.
Adding to what the guys were saying at the beginning kilts are a celtic legacy the other celtic cultures such as brythonic and gaulic wore as well it was the romanisation during roman occupation that lead to those cultures adopting roman style of dress while the irish and Gaelic tribes retained
Manx national dress is also a kilt. (PS The Ancient Egyptians wore a cotton kilt 5,000 years ago...)
Its common knowledge that if you want to know which family clan a Scottish person belongs to is the design of the Tartan pattern of the Kilt. Like the Stuarts and Cambells etc. The only definate way to tell is to lift up the Kilt of Scotsman and if you see a Quarter Pounder he is a MacDonald.
and what isnt common knowledge because it upsets the jocks greatly is the tartarn = clan bollocks was invented by an englishman to scam gullible scots
There is these two Campbell brothers out for a walk, and they see a building selling food. One said to the other, are ye hungry Angus, and he replied Aey a could murder a MacDonald
The Welsh have kilts as well 😊
You also would find it interesting how each pattern of tartan is unique to a 'clan' (family name I guess). There is a video on CZcams that shows how to lay out and roll in a kilt to wear it. The name "modern History" sticks in my head but I'll have to try and find it.
The Irish saffron kilt can still be seen today in military units. Bag pipers in the Irish army, in Irish regiments in the British army like the Irish Guards and Royal Irish Regiment in the British army, and in regiments with Irish lineage in the American, Canadian, South African, Australian, and New Zealand armies.
Steve, on a couple of funnier notes I think that the traditional way to wear kilts in Scotland ( I don't know about Ireland or anywhere else ) is for the men to 'go commando', i.e. without underwear and if any man's caught wearing underpants underneath them then he's considered to be a Sassenach ( an Englishman ) by the Scots.
The other funny note is if you watch the old British comedy film from 1968, Carry On Up The Khyber, you'll see the regiment of the Third Kilted Foot and Mouth led by Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond 'battling' the Khasi of Kalabar's men by standing in a row and lifting their kilts up to 'defeat' and shock them into submission by exposing themselves. The Carry On films - including that one - are nothing but hilarity and double-entendres and are considered to be comedy classics here in the U.K. ✌😁✌🇬🇧🇺🇸
P.S. Just notice how these two men are sat in this short video that you watched for you to see what I mean, okay? P.P.S. A 'khasi' here in the U.K. is a slang term for a toilet therefore you can also see what I mean about that Carry On film when it comes to them using double-entendres even in the names of their characters, can't you?
@@scott4600, well it's a good job that I'm not Scottish then, isn't it?
In the British Army all kilt wearing regiments must wear undergarments with a kilt. The whole nothing underneath is a bit of an old wives tale. Although it's handy when you need to take a dump.
@@Cailean_MacCoinnich, as to the last part of what you say that's true especially if you don't have any toilet paper around, isn't it? At least the improvised 'bog' roll can be reused once it's been through a washing machine, can't it?
@@scott4600It's not an urban legend, traditionally you do go commando, however if you're attending a wedding I recommend wearing boxers underneath especially if you're drinking and dancing.
The kilt is a development from an earlier garment that was really just a great blanket wrapped around the body, very much like the Roman toga.
The modern version is a Georgian rationalisation of this object. It was only used in earlier times in the Highlands & remote regions. The lowland Scots dressed more like most other British & Europeans, that is in tunics etc. The tartan patterns are a product of Victorian industry & innovation.
In earlier times colours were limited to available natural dyes. The half kilt is the modern type, no longer attached to the shoulder plaid, this is for convenience & ease of manufacture. Rationalize by use in the British army. The kilt was banned after the Scottish risings in 18th century, then adopted in 19th century & so permitted again .
@@js1872 I was told assume made an ass out of you and me.
The modern kilt was an English invention from the 1720s, adopted by one particular clan chief. As it was so practical it caught on and entirely replaced the older garment.
@@js1872 when I lived in London some bloke used to play them in his flat. I bet the neighbours loved him 😂
@@js1872 luckily for me it was a few streets away and I couldn't hear it from my house.
He lived in a small block of flats with neighbours either side and below him 😬
There's a scene in the series 'Outlander' showing the hero lying down to put on his great kilt in the 1740s.
The highlanders wore saffron shirts too. When they went into battle, they dispensed with their kilts and tied the long shirts between their legs. When you are facing an enemy, the last thing you need is yards and yards of loose material to possibly come loose and get entangled in your feet and legs. Which is why the English very often referred to them as the "bare-arsed Scots."
I don't remember that in "Braveheart". Don't tell me the film is historically inaccurate!
@@MrBulky992 Not a 100% innacurate, let's say fanciful, to be charitable, but enjoyable all the same.
The history of the modern kilt stretches back to at least the end of the 16th century. The kilt first appeared as the belted plaid or great kilt, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head as a hood. The small kilt or walking kilt (similar to the modern or military kilt) did not develop until the late 17th or early 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt.
The word kilt comes from the Scots word kilt meaning to tuck up the clothes around the body, although the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (vol. 15, p. 798) says the word is Scandinavian in origin. The Scots word derives from the Old Norse kjalta (meaning lap, fold of a gathered skirt).
great addition ty i forget language we have from around then plays more in understanding events ,i can add that we use the word bairns on east coast it comes from Scandinavian barn ,i once heard a Scandinavian comedian say they expected more blond hair blue eyes over here ,they finished with dang your folks could run huh rofl
I read an article by The Economist around 30 years ago about how much of Scottish "heritage" is a fiction. So the modern kilt was invented by an Englishman as the great kilt got caught up in machinery leading to accidents, the national drink was red wine due to the links with France and bagpipes were Irish. Pretty sure it was written by a Scot
to say the national drink was red wine caught me off guard lol ,my understanding on beverages is that we all drank wine of some form or beer as after damp and cold , water was the biggest killer if drank ,it wasnt till much later fermentation was understood leaving abit middle ground for interpretation,not saying your wrong just giving you fact to the context
@@scottneil1187 totaly agree with it just we were not alone and hopefully by proxy address the National/Whisky elephant in the room lol
There's also the Northumbrian pipes. I think Northumbria would have been Brythonic? So there could have been some connection with the Brythonic Gododdin tribe south of the Ochils. I wonder if there was much cultural cross-fertilisation when the Scots or Gododdin or Picts weren't at war?😆
Nothing that the English say about Scotland or Ireland may be believed, ever. Just ignore them. They will eventually fade away!
@@betawan3195 It’s whiskey! 😁
There is also a Cornish kilt don't see them now but they where black and gold plaid xx
As a Scot, the origins of the Kilt is actually a toss up between Spain and Portugal, the Celtic Galls brought them over to the British isles. And from there they adapted to what is known today.
Similar to the Bagpipes they originated in Turkey.
Originally the kilt was a considered a superior kit for troops in an Army, easy to move in, easy to clean, easy to remove, won't swelter in them during high heat. They lacked armour of course, but in those days you were more interested in moving quickly and evading.
It's definitely not a Scottish invention, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Ironically the modern short kilt was invented by an Englishman called Rawlinson. He was a factory owner and didn't want his employees getting entangled in the machinery. BTW tartan was not invented in Scotland, it was introduced in the 16th century.
And?
The Highland dress was typically folded down making it a skirt in the warmer weather. Or removed entirely in battle. The lèine was a skirt like tunic in a tartan weave. When it was banned the Unionists introduced the Kilt for the "good" Scots, like the Campbell clan. An idea directly obtained from an original creation; doesn't mean they invented it, they adapted something. Like... Bell's telephone becoming a cell phone.
@@Mark-Haddow The Leine is Irish not scottish.
The scottish kilts have different colours and tartan patterns for each clan (family)
The colours of which represent where that clan originated from. If there's lots of blues, your clan likely originated near the coast or a Loch.
That’s another fiction… look up the Sobieski-Stewart Brothers. They are credited (?), circa 1842, with using the idea to increase fabric sales, and thereby profits, by producing and popularising “family tartans”. Naethin like a guid tale tae pad the pooch. (Nothing like a good story to pad the pouch😉)
It was the Irish gaels clans who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and the Isle of man and parts of Wales the Scottish were pics from picland spoke pictish wipe out by the Saxons Irish called it Albain mac MC ní ó all irish Gael blood the Irish gaels were first inhabitants on Iceland too 60 percent of Icelandic dna Irish Gael Tál 🇮🇪 ⚓
Hi steve. The two photos of irish man wearing saffron, are dressed as galloglas. The one wearing the bratt is the equivalent of a english knight. The one wearing the red top is a kern. Which is a foot soldier
neither, they was invented by the Egyptians in 2700 BC.
I'm Scottish and if I'm not mistaken that back in the last ever failed jacobite uprising the great kilt was outlawed as too was gealic and the birth of the kilt that we have today was created by the English in a means to try and control the Scott's but the Scott's took it and made it our own. This since the 1800's.
Are worn in Cornwall too.
We have them in Cornwall too
Yeah, because you're a former Celtic nation. The Cornish are related to Scots, not the English.
Ireland and Scotland are connected through culture and language; both Gaelic (a subset of Celtic). Whiskey is another example, which originated in Ireland.
Whisky at no time originated in Ireland. Ambiguous writing in a Gaelic text doesn't suggest anything other than a beverage of a specific colour. It could have been anything, including thistle tea. Whisky originated in Scotland, the idea, possibly Scandinavia.
@@Mark-Haddow Whiskey originated in Ireland. The oldest mention of whiskey comes from Ireland in the annals of clonmacnoise it mentions a alcoholic beverage called “aqua vita.” aka uisce beatha which is whiskey, the word whiskey comes from the Irish word Uisce, being drank at winter when traditionally barely or malted grain was all that grew making it unlikely to be grapes. The chief who drank it died of alcohol poisoning which sounds like whiskey to me which gets into those high ranges basically moonshine.
Irish monks probably learned how to distill from the spanish during their travels and applied the technique to malted grain around the 10th century inventing whiskey.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367
No, it didn't, no it isn't.
Ireland has contributed nothing to society, except for maybe terrorism and bigotry. 👍
One thing I have always wondered about the great kilt: is there not a great deal of scope for a wardrobe malfunction, especially when engaged in energetic pursuits such as horseriding, fighting in battle or trying to escape enemies? If you were wielding a two-handed sword, there would not even be an arm free to preserve modesty.
Garments that tuck in tend not to be very secure.
That's true. I'm curious about that as well.
@@reactingtomyroots the kilt is only worn by bagpipers in Ireland,one time up to the 90s Irish dancers wore them, but now they compete in trousers.if you see some one wearing a kilt he is Scottish on vacation or for a sports event in Ireland involving Scottish teams.
Scots took off their clothes prior to going into battle. Running at your enemy balls out, was the Scottish battle-cry. Unfortunately they still won't let us do it in Rugby, but the Haka... 😜
A lot of Scottish traditions were banned and suppressed after the Jacobite rebellions.
Only certain Army Regiments were allowed to keep the kilt/tartan going. They mostly saw service abroad in the "Empire" so they didn't stir up the populace or get involved in local problems.
Scotland went through a mini enlightenment period in the 18th Century and a lot of our forbidden/lost history and language was brought back or reimagined by the great men of the day like Sir Walter Scott.
Many people see this as the rise of the "half" or small kilt, because it was easier to wear to the grand parties and occasions of the day. They recreated a book of the clan tartans, but half of it came from "suspect" sources. They put out a dictionary for the Scots language and poets like Robert Burns use it and we were off to the races.
It's not religious. When I was in the boy scouts as a kid, my uniform was the usual green shirt, scarf and hat from the waist up. However, from the waist down we wear a kilt, sporran, knee high socks with green flagged garters and brogues.
Any wedding or christening I go to I wear a kilt if I'm close family or a member of the party holding the event. Otherwise, I wear a nice suit.
If you graduate from college, you'll normally wear a kilt under your robes and so on.
If I'm going to a national sports match - I'll wear a kilt, the team jersey and boots.
It's really just national dress wear at this point.
I was taught that the Ancient Greeks had kilts. It is called a "Fustanella".
The Irish regiments wear a mustard coloured kilt.
Its a tricky one!
The Meshwesh and Libu tribes are described by ancient Egyptians or depicted as having kilts with animal hide pelts and a scabbard.
The Cornish have kilts too. All the Celtic nations really.
The English made it illegal to wear tartan at some point, then the Victorians revived the gathered half kilt
That's a commonly held belief but it is not actually true or, at least, it was by no means a complete ban.
Under the 1747 Proscription (or Dress) Act, you were not allowed to wear full highland dress or wear a great coat or upper coat made with tartan if you were male. The wearing of tartan for other garments and for any female garments remained legal as did the playing of the bagpipes, the speaking of gaelic and group gatherings. In the main, the Act was ignored (especially by the nobility) and it was repealed in 1782 in any case.
The modern pleated kilt in the form of a skirt dates from the 1720s (by an Englishman!) and spread rapidly. This was what was worn by George IV on his state visit to Edinburgh in 1822, decades before Queen Victoria.
It was the government not English peeps. We have our own kilts and pipes in the north East of england
@@malcdaley5267 And it was a British government (with Scots in it), not an English one (the English and Scottish polities died in 1707). Many Hanoverian, Whig, presbyterian and lowland Scots will have been just as keen on measures to suppress troublesome and largely Catholic and Episcopalian Jacobites and many Scots fought on the Hanoverian side in 1745-6.
Most Scottish kilts have a tartan associated to clans mine us the pettigrew clan.. The first mention of kilts is in 1538. They were worn as full-length garments by Gaelic-speaking Scots Highlander men. The knee-length kilt that we see today didn't come around until the early 18th century.
Steve have a look at how to wear a plaid video by steve the highlander and it shows you how a traditional 'full' kilt is worn
Great recommendation George. Thanks for sharing.
Steve, don't forget that whether one wears a Scots or Irish kilt being correctly dressed requires that nothing at all be worn
underneath it -- no trews, no underpants, no nothing! Sure, the wool of the kilt itself is a bit scratchy, but it's also very heavy; and all those pleats in a modern kilt are at least partly intended to ensure they don't swirl out far enough in the breeze to make any sensitive spectators blush. And the weight of the sporran also helps, though I can't remember whether the Irish wear these.
Someone remarked somewhere that (linen) kilts were also worn in Ancient Egypt, and the two over life-sized guardians of the inner chamber of Tutankamun's tomb are certainly a spectacular example. The projecting aprons of their golden kilts would have needed boning, though what with I don't know. Papyrus stalks? Willow twigs?
Hi Steve, which part of these islands are your ancestors from, I live in wales and have ancestors in england, Scotland and Ireland both North and south?
Just call it a skirt. They love that 😬🤣
LOL I have a feeling that wouldn't go over to well.
@@reactingtomyroots the scots will mind, but us Irish don't identify with the kilt.those guys were right in terms of history there was an attempt to make it popular, but it never became popular to any degree except for pipe bands.
The real mystery is what's worn underneath 😉😁
As little as possible.
Scots didn't wear a kilt in battle, or anything below the waist. Overheating is the main cause of fatigue during ancient battle. Going Commando is much more than what people believe it means.
great vid Steve ,ive watched these guys b4 they are great in thier explanations and personally id say correct to assume water ,a common nickname for the guys far north was red shanks, do you guys say Shanks's pony over there? ,the thought alone makes my teeth rattle lol ,as mercenaries they are pictured barefeet and legs with kilt ,sword, bow and dagger later with musket,im unsure how or when the practise stopped but the use of things like caltrops would make anyone rethink i guess,i was taught that around the same time the english were called le roast beef ,they had spent that much time at war they masterd spit roast.Interestingly the term the whole 9 yards has links with the kilt also as it took 9 yards to make a full kilt ,being from a lowland clan "Hamilton" i am often awe struck by highland tales of true grit .I have to say i learn something everyday from yourself and comments from the community ,i love that i can add more colour to my own understanding of our history from other peoples insights,with colour in mind the early scots wear was only dyed from the land around them ,from dog poo making "masterings" to make the leather and pee to set dye ,im surprised any lived lol
Caltrops were a defense against cavalry, to lame the horses. Horses were the "tanks" of medieval warfare.
@@bobknightfolk yes caltrops were later for horses ,i wondered if there was a precursor against a highland charge id never looked into the end of barefoot scot and hoped to get some info by leaving a baited caltrop :)
Much of the confusion is because a lot of the kilt wearing folk in the Americas are actually Scot-Irish or Scotch-Irish as the 'muricans call them. These Scots-Irish are actually the descendants of Northern Irish people who Emigrated to the US. But originally they were lowland Scots and some English who moved to Northern Ireland during the 'plantation' years, so they weren't highland Scots anyway and never wore any type of kilt. Once they got to the US even though they were Protestants they mingled with the existing predominantly Catholic Highland Scots, which is why on March 17th in the US you see millions of part Irish and bits of Scots all celebrating St Patricks day wearing kilts.
But the key bit of the video is that there were no Irish Tartan kilts until about 30 odd years ago. It's a very recent invention. Prior to that the Irish from about 1920 onward picked up on the kilt in a plain form to show a disconnection from the English, and a connection to other Celtic people.
Incorrect the original st Patrick's day parades started by the friendly sons of st patrick never had any kilts not a single reference is ever made to kilts and we have plenty of records they were introduced in the 1960s by Piping bands to be inclusive towards the Scottish bands. And the scots-Irish are a myth the majority of them bare Irish surnames names like Cassidy, Sullivan, McCarthy Neal from O'Neill etc names that are clearly not scottish. The idea that Irish protestants were scots-Irish was invented in the 19th century by the know nothing movement. Historian Michael J O'Brien published endless books debunking the scots Irish myth.
it's a heavy toga. They have been around for millenia
Or is it English?
The video was all about the great kilt but Wikipedia tells me that the modern kilt was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire named Thomas Rawlinson some time in the 1720s. He felt that the belted plaid was "cumbrous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it into a distinct garment with pleats already sewn, which he himself began making. His associate, Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness, also began making it, and his clansmen imitated him. From there, it spread "in the shortest space" throughout the Highlands and even some lowland areas.
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Patricks Day parades around the World have Irish Military / Police / Gaelic Organisations etc wearing kilts, but plainer and less tartan on show
Doesn't exist to any extent in Ireland ,atleast not in the republic,may be the ulster Scot community in northern Ireland may be more into it, but certainly apart from pipe bands not in the republic.
scottish kilts are from scotland a irish kilts from ireland but kilts go way back in history to the middle east too.
Steve, do you have a postal number wher i can send you a book which has every Castie,Palace,& Stately Home,in Britain & Northan Ireland,knowing how much you like Architecture.
I don't currently have one, but plan on getting one soon. I really appreciate the offer to send me the book. I'll definitely let everyone know when I get the po box. :)
The Roman’s wore kilts ,so did the Chinese
Skirts. The Spartan skirt is called the Pteruges, the Romans wearing it centuries later isn't a shock, since they are descendants of ancient Greek and Mediterranean nations.
We made the kilt relevant tho
The Scots went to fight in Ireland and they irish were wearing kilts too .....no answer who actually was first😊
Yes maybe but it never became popular in mainstream Irish culture in modern times.apart from pipe bands it's not commonly worn one time dancers wore them,but not since the 90s
The Kilt was created after the Jacobite rebellion. The léine is the tradition item, which can be folded to the waist, looking like a skirt.
Haha first lesson in wearing a kilt …..In order to look like a gentleman, a man should first learn to sit like a lady….(knees together)… I leave it to your imagination hahaha
Everything Scottish is from Ireland, the Scottish are Irish, the original inhabitants of what is now Scotland were the picts. Beyond Hadrians wall there were numerous British tribes
The Scots language is not from Ireland: it is a lingual descendant of Middle English.
I'm Gael but not Irish the Norse also had a huge impact on the Highlands and islands but i'm not Norse either i am Scottish.
The Scoti clan were dominant on the west coast of Scotland and won the war against the eastern Picts, hence why we are called Scotland and not Pictland. However the native Picts did not disappear, the Scoti and Picts integrated themselves together for hundreds of years and eventually created a nation of people culturally distinct enough from Ireland that they were no longer considered Irish. People who say that the Scottish are Irish is the equivalent of saying that the English are German because of the origins of the Angles and don't have their own cultural identity seperate from Germany.
I dont quite agree with the integration part. Or the whar with eastern Pictish tribes.
When McAlpin was made King of Picts and Scots. He wasnt meant to be next in line.He spent the following 5 years rounding up those pictish nobles and families that refused to see him as the legitimate king of picts.
The scotichronicon, holinshed annals and viking sagas dont talk of integration either, Far from it. I would mention MacDuffs castle in Fife,Fib as the picts and Vikings called it, though it is mentioned as Fifi in some sagas.This was gifted and lands by Mcalpin to Duffus as payment for helping rid Fife of Picts.
Jump forward 4 or 500 hundred years ish and the Treaty of Arbroath describes what the Scots thought of the Picts.
Scottish here, from Fife!!
I find it fascinating that there are very few Aber place names on west coast and Ireland but loads in Wales and east coast of Scotland!
The Irish kilt is mustard in colour with a green cloak, I know because my father was Irish
"Kilts" are much older than either country, plaids have existed since antiquity and clan tartans were invented in 1842 by a very weird pair of English brothers.
the Subresky Stewarts. they were from Poland.
@@ianlogan1150 they were about as Polish as i am! Absolutely deluded both of them 😄
@@ianlogan1150 The Sobieski Stuart brothers claimed (falsely) to be descendants of Bonnie Prince Charlie and some influential people were taken in! Their names were, of course, aliases and they were English.
First you have to define what you mean by Scot. The original scot land was Scotia which is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels. The Romans referred to Ireland as "Scotia" around 500 A.D. As Dr Adrián Maldonado, Glenmorangie Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland, points out, “‘Scot’ is historically correct to discuss the people of Dál Riata, a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland.
Asterix le Gaulois ahh i loved this as a kid but never knew why ,i had to dig that name out in french lol ,its sad so much of the dark ages is lost or hidden
Scots are from Scotland , their ancestry might be Pictish, Norse , Irish, Anglo Saxon ,Brythonic, Flemish ,Normans etc etc but it is clear they are from/or live in a geographical place which is shown on maps as Scotland.
The old Scoti stuff means nothing to modern day Scots.
A proportion of Scots however are proud of their Irish ancestry but that comes more from some Irish moving to Scotland after the great famine and for work in the developing industrialisation of the 1800's.
The English are the same ..Britons, Angles ,Saxons, Jutes ,Normans,Norse etc without the need to refer to the angles having been Southern Danish
Every Country in these islands are part of a hotch potch of different peoples coming together and this trend continues to be the case today
The Scots and the Irish are one great people! The greatest nation that never was - YET!!!
Never will be.
At one time (1746) the Scottish kilt became a banned item of clothing (except for Highland Regiments) as it was associated with warrior clans who represented challenges to the British Government/ the Monarch (George II). But by the time of George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822 it was resurfacing as a symbol of Scottishness - and being worn not only by Highlanders, but by Lowlanders too.
Kilts are worn by Celts which include the Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English
I’m Scots Irish as I was born and live in Scotland but have Irish on both sides of my family and my surname is Irish Currens which come from the family Curran so I know it’s a Irish tartan for me but I can never find a reference for it if anyone could help there it would be appreciated
They are very few Irish family tartans,most are recent and mainly a diaspora thing,Irish born are not so much.its usually the more prominent Irish clans that have tartans like the o neills and o briens
@@Joseph130-br6jc that for that it helps but I’m sure I did see one we used but I can’t remember
@@lynnblaircurrens9097 It's most likely the pattern associated with the county your ancestors originated in. The Curran surname is found from Donegal all the way down to Waterford so if you can find out what county or at least what province they came from you can use that one.
Mike 13, I love how the English invented something that the English banned, along the lines of why the Scots invented the English 😂I agree that the modern kilt was invented by an Englishman but this was only a knee length version of the long version, this was nothing to do with the "Ancient Health and Safety" laws, also the Scots mostly drank ale centuries before whisky and the bagpipes were originally from an ancient Chinese instrument. Wine was traded between Scotland and France and Italy, this was because of the rise in Christianity as well as wool. So, 10 year war, war of the roses and the English civil war were started in Scotland and Scotlands "Auld Alliance" was formed to halt English expansion. The English language is formed of around 600 languages, the anglo saxons, we're "angles" Germanic tribes and the most English by DNA are Yorkshire around 43%.I will grant you the Scotch egg but I am a SCOT, We started Scots law, so I believe that the fictional story you read was probably written by a Germanic "Englishman" 😂
the scots in me couldnt walk past that too lol there was too much to cover ,i hoped expanding the narrative would get him to question his view
Cheers my fellow Jock, Facts always discounts the under privelidged 😂😂Peace and Love 🏴🏴🏴
It was the Irish gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and the Isle of man and parts of Wales the Scottish were pics from picland spoke pictish wipe out by the Saxons Irish called it Albain mac MC ní ó all irish Gael blood the Irish gaels were first inhabitants on Iceland too 60 percent of Icelandic dna Irish Gael Tál 🇮🇪 ⚓
3.10 minutes. Did he just call us SCOTCH !? Scotch is a drink. WE ARE SCOTTISH OR SCOTS !
4.43 MINUTES. We DO were PANTS....under our TROUSERS !!
The IRISH military kilt is plain.
Each Scottish clan has it's own TARTAN ( don't ever call it PLAID ).
No he didn't say 'Scotch' so you're getting all ridiculously angry over nothing. Those guy own their own kilt-weaving company, they know a lot about Scottish culture, they're not ignorant. As for plaid/tartan....those terms are in fact interchangeable, when you're weaving, you're weaving a plaid, it's the generic term for the pattern itself....the tartan is related to the particular dyes and pattern....so, cool yer beans
The Plaid is a separate part of the full highland outfit that goes over the left shoulder, and attached with a funky brooch. It is basically meant to be the cut off bit of the old great kilt, and should always be made from the same piece of material as the actual kilt.
I just came here for the comments. The expected fuddery was fully on show.
I thought I heard scotch too. Americans seem to use the term often.
Do you ever hear yourself? I enjoy most everything except your introductory sence. It sounds so angry.
Fandabi dozi is a great channel with a scotsman doing survival and bushcraft in a great kilt with period equipment, really fascinating for those interested.