[librasteve]

surely you mean overbearing English, old man?

[oncallthrow]

No, we just found Nicola sturgeon’s hacker news account

[clickety_clack]

Ya, the Scotch-Irish were the Brits doing the overbearing in Ireland.

[physicsguy]

Let’s also not forget that the Irish lords that the Anglo-Irish supplanted were themselves the descendants of Normans.

[clickety_clack]

This is incorrect. It was the Britons that were ruled by saxons and then normans, not the Irish (until the invasion we’re talking about obviously).

[orwin]

No, they weren't, not in a meaningful way.