Protestants in Northern Ireland (Ulster) celebrated the one hundredth year anniversary of the Ulster Covenant this weekend with parades in Belfast and a festival at Stormont (the capital). A large portion of Ulster’s population is Ulster-Scots, people descended from Scottish settlers. In North America the Ulster-Scots are often called Scots-Irish.
They are most heavily concentrated in Appalachia and the Upper South
but have also spread out and across much of the rest of the South as
well as other areas of the United States.
In the picture below, some Orangemen march with the Confederate flag
of Dixie. The Bonnie Blue flag can also be seen to the left.
Proud sons of Ulster took to the streets of Newtownstewart in County Tyrone
on 6 May, 2011 to show the colours and their loyalty to their country.
For this son of Dixie it was especially stirring to see that they
marched with the Confederate and Bonnie Blue flags, symbolizing the cultural and ethnic ties between the Ulster-Scots (“Scots-Irish”) and the people of Dixie."
Confederate Army mural in Northern Ireland
Sons of Ulster who led the Confederate Army during the War of Northern Aggression.
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