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From: Michael Cassidy <>
Subject: Re: [Scotch-Irish] Red Hand -- What's That?
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:42:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: <l03130300b8cd80262336@[12.88.104.81]>


>>In any case, newcomers might wonder what''s the Red Hand of Ulster?
>>
>>See here: http://www.bartleby.com/81/14150.html . It's from Irish
>>mythology.
>>
>>The Red Branch knights and the early, mythological history of
>>Ulster is claimed (and rightfully) by both sides of the conflict
>>since so many of the Scots who arrived at the time of the Plantation
>>(early 1600's) or later were descendents of Irish clans who migrated
>>to Alban around 500 AD or later. One prominant one (500 AD) was called
>>the Scotti, from County Antrim. They displaced the Picts of Alban
>>and gave it their name.
>>
>>Here is a page from the Cain project on symbols used by both sides
>>in Northern Ireland:
>>
>>http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/symbols/crosstrad.htm
>>
>>So the Red Hand is basically a symbol for the province of Ulster,
>>one of four or five prehistoric divisions of the island of Ireland.
>>The county system was first introduced by the English, eh, Normans,
>>the conquerors of the English. The final counties were created in
>>the early 1600's at the time of the Ulster Plantations.


At the moment the Red Hand is a group of Loyalist terrorist killing random
Catholics in Nothern Ireland.

Its also a role playing game on the www. You probably want to use a T-1 or
ISDN to play and also a Cherokee [native american] society.

m

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