There are people who like to rewrite history. I don't mind that
when missing pieces are put back into the jigsaw, but when
things are just made up with little or no basis in fact then my
toes curl up. One of these is the idea that the Plantation
period which brought large numbers of Scots to Ulster was
actually a kind of "homecoming" - because these people were
probably descended from some ancient obscure, unrecorded,
largely speculative tribe who had migrated from Ireland to
Scotland thousands of years previously. Here's a quote I
stumbled upon recently: "...may I say that the effort to prove
that the Scots who came to Ulster in plantation days were really
Gaels returning home after centuries of sojourning abroad is
just romantic shadow-hunting. The thesis that "the Ulster-Scot
is largely of Celtic origin", if it means anything at all, is
without historical significance..." by Prof TW Moody FTCD, The
Ulster Scots in Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1944
(published in Studies - an Irish Quarterly Review, M