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| LARNE CHURCHYARD, CO. ANTRIM. -We present in the foregoing sketch, the quaint entrance to the chapel and graveyard of Larne, County Antrim. The churchyard contains the graves of thousands upon thousands of "Os" and "Macs" - "Irish-Irish" and "Scotch Irish," who now sleep peacefully there side by side, heedless of the "blood blood" of 1641, and of the factions bred by the fight of 1690 on the banks of "the Boyne's ill-fated river." It is a somewhat remarkable fact that the term "Scotch-Irish" is almost unknown in Ireland, and one has to cross the Atlantic to America in order to discover it in general use. We find the term first applied to the non-Catholic inhabitants of Ulster by Chaplain Story, of King William's army, who wrote what he humorously called "An Impartial History of Affairs in Ireland," published in London, 1693. In his chapter descriptive of the battle of the Boyne he says, on page 82: "Doctor Walker (defender of Derry) going, as some say, to look after the Duke (Schomberg) was shot a little beyond the river, and stripped immediately; for the Scotch-Irish that followed our camp were got through already, and took off most of the plunder." After Story, the men most responsible for the nickname "Scotch-Irish" were Lord Macaulay and Horace Greeley. The former, also, if he did not invent the misleading pharse "Anglo-Saxon" certainly advertised it. Macaulay was merely a renegade Celt. |
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