Ulster Scots people

This family, like from their name, Sir Valentine and Aunt Jennifer, and the fact they live on this estate and they're essentially the lords of this village, they're almost certainly Protestant.

So it could be Ulster Scots.

There's no specific detail because it's a fictional place of where in Ireland this is set.

But if they're an Ulster Scottish family and came over to the country and settled in the north in the early 1600s, then they would have entirely been Presbyterian.

not only do we give them like you know

periods menopause anyhow these were ireland's last witch trials under a dedicated witchcraft law which was what made it so famous so eight of these these women and one man um and you being told that your mom's family came from the area is genuinely interesting apparently Islay McGee community involved was predominantly Presbyterian of Scots or Ulster Scots descent, rather than the stereotypical image of an ancient Gaelic Irish witchcraft community.

So if your family can be traced to Islay McGee and surrounding County Antrim, it's a legitimate geographical family history connection to one of the most famous witchcraft cases in Ireland.

So that's you.

So I don't think there's one

It is kind of funny, though, that when we talk about Halloween, and one of the points of bringing you on was, is the Halloween traditions and Halloween in the Ozarks is basically a Scots-Irish holiday.

as we have Hispanic members being added to our community, they're going to go and probably celebrate Halloween and then continue with Dio de los Muertos, which will be a complete change from...

It's really nobody...

In the mid to 19th century and into the early 20th century.

So that would have been the Southern Irish.

The Ozarks residents, of course, as we've talked about before, were largely Scots-Irish.

The Scots-Irish were from Northern Ireland.

I appreciate that.

Do you know how many people are estimated to come from a loyalist, strong, sort of very Ulster Scots cultural background in Scotland?

Quite a few.

quite a few, almost a quarter of a million people.

I mean, the Scottish side of it, and I was ashamed of my Scottish heritage to know nothing about it at all, what had been happening in Scotland, but literally thousands, and mainly women, were condemned to death because they had been found guilty of being witches.

And when this small community, this Ulster Scots community, came into or settled on the peninsula, they brought with them all of this Scottish heritage and their ideals and their beliefs and their prejudice.

And of course, they would be well aware of what was happening in Scotland and how you dealt with people who were accused of witchcraft.

And in Scotland, if they were found guilty, you were killed.

Okay.

These people were Ulster Scots.

I think they thought of themselves more aligned to Scotland than to Ireland.

Right.

yeah

and women

women yeah yeah And what is your, how did this story emerge and how did the documentary group who are Clean Slate Television and they're making this programme for Orty Religion and Society with the assistance of funding from Northern Ireland's Screen Ulster Scots Broadcast Fund.

Where did the story first emerge? How did they stumble upon this story?

Monaghan.Yeah, so a lot, and you'll find in Drogheda particularly, like, a lot of stuff leaks down as well from, from Ulster, and a lot of the stuff.

So, so, we'll, we'll have sort of, um, influence of, of, like, Ulster Scots, and the Irish language, and, and cant as well, and all the slang that we use.

And rooly-booly, in as Gaeilge, just means a bit of a ruckus, you know?

Yeah.