Scottish people should never be referred to as "Scotch". The preferred description is "Scots". So it follows that the correct term would be "Scots-Irish".

Scottish and Irish people should be reffered to as either Scottish or Irish, but not both at the same time, as Scotland and Ireland are two completely different countries. Much the same as you couldn't possibly be Canadian- Mexican. I am a proud Scotsman, andhave known a number of Irishmen, all of them living and working in Scotland, and all of them proud Irishmen, with no notion of being Scottish. you may be thinking about the Celts, a loose alliance of tribes that inhabited Ireland and Scotland up to the Middle ages. They had similair religion and languages, and the Celtic tribes of the British mainland banded together on various occasions to repel invaders such as the Vikings and the Roman Empire. as time has gone by, the Scots and Irish have inherited common traits from their Celtic ancestors, like a fiery temperament, ginger hair, and a dislike for all things Anglo- Saxon (English), but they are not the same people, and are very proud to be their own respective nations, so the notion of Scots- Irish doesn't really exist. If you are reffering to people of mixed parentage I think the most accurate term would be either mongrel or half-breed.

Scotch is a drink! Never refer to a Scot as Scotch. :-)

Scots-Irish.

Scotch is whiskey, not people from Scotland. They should be called "Scot-Irish". Many Scots from Ireland are also referred to as "Black Irish" by Americans (for their dark hair and light complexion).

The correct term! How many will sit and ponder that very question forever. When the answer is sitting right in front of your eyes and your all blind. For all of you that have tried to answer this question to the best of your knowledge, I'm sorry but you, all of you are wrong. I myself am scottish. Both my mother and father were scottish, but my mother was also irish. And to you whom calls me a mongrel, a half breed, I'm sorry all you can see is blood. I am human not cattle or horse, not a half breed. There is no such thing as a half breed when it come to humans. But to fully answer the qquestion scottish and irish are simply celts. Though one has explained what celts are. It was also explained that scottish and irish derive from their ancient celtic ancestories. As if you search for the old ogham you will learn they are one in the same. So you Captain Birdseye, you call yourself a mongrel. For we all derived from the same blood.Two different world, but you must think. Our worlds, our lands, were once all connected to each other. Or do you not embrase your celtic herritage, your born religion, your own blood. You said it yourelf, "the Scots and Irish have inherited common traits from their Celtic ancestors".

If anything they are Irish/Scots. Scotch is a sweet Pierre

"Scotch" is Whisky, not the people

Famous scots such as Robbie Burns & Walter Scott referred to themselves & fellow scotsmen as scotch, this is not grammatically incorrect. In the original homeland of the scots-irish, Ulster, we prefer to call ourselves Ulster-Scots.

We're called Tims.

Celtic people. Same as the Welsh

If you're Irish, they're often called "Orange Bastards." In America they're called "Scotch-Irish," which is a misnomer; they're actually Scots who were transplanted to Ulster by King William in order to drive the Irish out of Ulster. In Ulster, they call themselves Ulster Scots. But I should think that Celtic (or Keltic) covers the Scots, Irish, Manx, Bretons, Cornish, and Welsh. Not the Picts, though, if they're not extinct; they were pre-Celtic.

Scots-Irish refers to Scottish Presbyterians who were transplanted to Ulster in Northern Ireland to spread Protestantism against Catholicism (since Ireland was always heavily Catholic). This is largely what led to the separation of mainly Protestant N. Ireland from the rest of the island. Many Scots-Irish then immigrated to America, where they largely settled in the Appalachian Mountain regions. Most of the so-called "hillbillies" of the Appalachian hill country are heavily of Scots-Irish descent, especially those living in West Virginia, western Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. In contrast, the lowland areas of the South were settled more heavily by those of English and Welsh ancestry. To this day, you can still see this demographic distinction. Virginia, for example, which is largely more lowland and coastal territory, is still more English in culture and heritage. White Southerners are mostly of old colonial British heritage with a little French, German, and Dutch thrown in (little else except in Louisiana where it's more diverse). The Scottish and Irish people were already related via their common Celtic roots beforehand. Although two separate ethnicities with their own identities, they share much in common because of the shared Celtic ancestry. Both look very much alike, both love to party and have a good time, and both tend to have that fiery personality that others here have mentioned.

I hate it how most people who don't really know the whole history of Ireland and stereo type the red head or light hair color has being the only Irish people they think are supposed to be the Irish people only and no other hair color darker and that in order to be Irish they think you have to be very pale skin also the light blue eyes. I say this because I have dark black culy hair, I have light to medium skin tone depends on the season, during cold weather I am lighter and during hot weather I get tan, but I am not very pale and I have like yellow hazel eyes with dark green on the outer surface of my eyes. Many years ago, I mean many years ago the real Irish were the dark black hair and hazel eyes and they were not pale, the Scottish migrated into Ireland and they were the light hair skin and eyes. Also a recent RTE program revealed that genetic records show that the *true* Irish Gaels are indeed dark curly haired with complexion varying from season to season. It also concluded that the closest genetic race to Irish is Basque from guess where, the Iberian peninsula. People think I am Greek or Italian, and after I tell them that I am Irish, and then they say OH you don't look Irish at all, I hate it when they say this. I am a very proud Irish woman.

People from Scotland are called Scots and those from Ireland are called Irish. They are two different cultural identities. A scotsman or an irishman wouldn't class themselves as irish-scots anymore than an american would classify himself as an amero-canadian. Maybe someone of irish and scottish descent would consider that line of thought, but it seems more genetic than to do with nationality.

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