Irish Scottish people
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Irish-Scots (Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich ri sinnsireachd Ăˆireannach) are people in Scotland who have traceable Irish ancestry. Although there has been migration from Ireland (especially Ulster) to Scotland and elsewhere in Britain for millennia, Irish migration to Scotland increased in the nineteenth century, and was highest following the Great Famine and played a major role, even before Catholic Emancipation in 1829, in rebuilding and re-establishing the formerly illegal Catholic Church in Scotland following centuries of religious persecution. In this period, the Irish typically settled in urban slum neighborhoods and around industrial areas. Irish ancestry is by far the most common foreign ancestry in Scotland.
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Regions with significant populations | |
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Coatbridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Dundee, Inverclyde | |
Languages | |
English (Irish/Scottish), Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Scots | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh, Manx, Cornish, Bretons, Scots-Irish, Ulster Scots |
Famous Irish-Scots include Irish republican and socialist revolutionary James Connolly, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, left-wing politician George Galloway, actors Sean Connery, Brian Cox, Peter Capaldi and Gerard Butler, musicians Gerry Rafferty, Maggie Reilly, Jimme O'Neill, Clare Grogan and Fran Healy and stand-up comedians Sir Billy Connolly, Fern Brady, and Frankie Boyle.
The term Irish-Scots should not be confused with Ulster-Scots (sometimes known as Scots-Irish), a term used to denote those in the Irish province of Ulster who are descended from Lowland Scots who settled there in large numbers during the Plantation of Ulster and subsequently.