The Scots and the Irish have a shared cultural history: Around 400 AD, around the decline of the Roman Empire, Irish settlers called Celts made their way across the Irish Sea to the shores of West Britain, primarily in Scotland, especially in the Highlands and as far as Wales and Cornwall in the Southern part of the Island. In the 16th century, the English viewed Ireland, Northern Ireland in particular, as being as being "underpopulated" and undeveloped, therefore ripe for colonization. To consolidate its control of the region at the conclusion of the wars of conquest with the Irish Chieftains, the English provided land grants to Scottish Aristocrats and Veterans along with their servants, as well as their English counterparts, in exchange for swearing fealty to the Crown. These settlements or Plantations were created by huge swaths of confiscated lands and then redistributed to create concentrations of British settlers around new towns and garrisons. Most of the Scottish planters came from southwest Scotland, but many also came from the unstable regions along the border with England. These Border reivers or raiders, took cattle and other portable property from persons regardless of nationality. Forcible deportation was an attempt to quell violence and civil unrest in the border regions. Also, famine was another pull factor and the cause of the next wave of migration to Ireland. Moreover, Scots Gaelic is very closely related to the Irish language, so one would be hard-pressed to say that the Scots and Irish are two distinct races, due to cross migration and intermixing.
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