Date: Tue, 22 Jun 99 13:38:24 EDT From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU> Subject: Re: J18 & transatlantic royal-mart Dave writes: >Well I would be quite happy to blame the Irish, >but honesty compells me to pronounce them >blameless in this matter. I have cousins who >are Buchanans. My cousin June once showed >me a "clan history" thing for the Buchanans. >There really is no question about the Scottish >origins of the Buchanans. If Pat Buchanan has >a connection with Ireland , it's "Scotch - Irish" > - that is to say, he is descended from Scots >protestant settlers who emigrated to northern >Ireland in the Seventeenth or Eighteenth >Centuries, and later emigrated again >to America. Well, we're all Celts, anyway. Just because there's a Scottish clan Buchanan, doesn't mean their isn't an ancient Irish one as well. Pat is a Roman Catholic, so he doesn't meet the usual profile of a Scots-Irish. But, hey, if you really want 'im, you can have 'im.
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