whats the difference?

Question

between the irish and the scots irish?
its for a report

Answer 1

Ireland was once part of Britian and covered with ice during the Ice Age. It has been inhabited for about 9,000 years.
In waves between the eighth and first century BC the Gael and Celt people settled in both Britian and Ireland. These people were from tribes that were in Europe but spoke a similar language.
During the first century BC it is believed the last band of Celts landed in Ireland.
Rome called Ireland "Hibernia" and the historian Ptolemy wrote about the landscape and the tribes. It is not known when Christiany came to the Irish although it is recorded that Bishop Palladius arrived in Ireland on a mission from Pope Celestine to minister to the Irish "already believing in Christ." in 431. St Patrick was to have been there in 432.

The Irish were basically isolated until 9th century by 200 years of intermittent warfare with waves of Viking raiders who plundered monasteries and towns. Eventually they settled in Ireland and established many towns, including the modern day cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford.
In 1171, King Henry II of England invaded Ireland, using the 1155 Bull Laudabiliter issued to him by then English Pope Adrian IV to claim sovereignty over the island, and forced the Cambro-Norman warlords and some of the Gaelic Irish kings to accept him as their overlord.
In the fourteenth century the English settlement went into a period of decline and large areas, for example Sligo, were re-occupied by Gaelic septs. From the late fifteenth century English rule was once again expanded, first through the efforts of the Earls of Kildare and Ormond then through the activities of the Tudor State under Henry VIII and Mary and Elizabeth. This resulted in the complete conquest of Ireland by 1603 and the final collapse of the Gaelic social and political superstructure at the end of the 17th century, as a result of English and Scottish Protestant colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and the disastrous Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Williamite War in Ireland.

Scotland was settled about 9,500 years ago. Although written history doesn't start until Roman times. The Romans ruled the southern part of Scotland briefly. Part of southern Scotland was briefly controlled by Rome. To the north was Caledonia, territory not conquered by the Romans. The name represents that of a Pictish tribe, the Caledonii, one amongst several in the region, but perhaps the dominant tribe. Pictland became dominated by the Pictish sub-kingdom of Fortriu. The Gaels of Dál Riata, an Irish tribe called the Scots, peopled Argyll. From this people came Cináed mac Ailpín, who united the Kingdom of Scotland in 843, when he became the King of the Picts and Scots.

So you see the Scots and the Irish are interrelated not only from early Roman times but also later on. During the Tudor reign many Prostants were sent over to Ireland to hold land for the King. Most of the Prostants were from Scotland. This was done so that Scotland might be loyal to the English king.

Answer 2

People of Irish decent who intermarried with the Scotish are Scots Irish. Just like the term Amer-Asian, or African American.