Patrique is quite correct there. The Irish did a lot of the dirty work for the British Empire. In Australia the Aborigines still have bad memories of a very racist strongly Irish police force while along with the Scots and Welsh were at the forefront of the colonial wars in South Africa, India and the Far East. If my memory serves me Custer was of Irish stock possibly Ulster Scots and many Irish settlers were also responsible for taking the Native American lands. The Southern US states were populated by mostly WASP's a lot of them Ulster Scots. In the film Mississippi Burning the scene at the end where it showed those eventually charged looked like a rollcall for the DUP/UUP with names like Clayton, Townsley, Nevin Ulster Scots names.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9840 - 13/03/2010 14:17:41    587138

I heard that quite a few of the Sioux at Little Big Horn were from Ballymurphy originally.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 13/03/2010 14:19:27    587143

Derryman, Commanche was owned by a soldier called Myles Keogh !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 13/03/2010 15:50:58    587219

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587219 Derryman, Commanche was owned by a soldier called Myles Keogh

Certainly sounds Irish Was he from Down

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 13/03/2010 16:02:55    587227

It is ok slasher I see he was a leighlinbridge manfrom Carlow

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 13/03/2010 16:09:35    587231

richard harris was a indian.
a man called horse?

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 13/03/2010 21:58:02    587428

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I don't know of any Irish diaspra ( including those in USA) who have hammered the locals,


Leaving aside Native Americans let us look at the relationship between Irish and african Americans.

The "most Irish" city is Boston. All of big three sporting franchises in that city were owned by "Irish" people.

The last baseball team to have a black player? The Red sox.

The last basketball team to have a black player? The Celtics.

The last football team to have a black player? The patriots.


The above are just small examples of the Irish assimilating in the US of A.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nUFxsZqpA

Does Jack not explain it Patrique?

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 14/03/2010 10:14:12    587454