Questioning of the elite dominance theory

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/12/00 9:01:44 PM Mountain Standard Time,
dlwhite at texas.net writes:

>3) English in Ireland (outside of Ulster) >>

-- Ireland (and not just Ulster) was a major destination of English and
Scottish emigration, numbering in the hundreds of thousands in the 17th
century and substantial numbers in the 18th.  And that's not counting the
medieval influx, which was substantial and which had already Anglicized the
area around Dublin.

Prior to about 1720, Ireland absorbed more immigrants from Britain than the
whole of the Americas.

The linguistic history of Ireland is incomprehensible unless these facts are
taken into consideration.  (See the Oxford History of the British Empire, vs.
I & II).

Likewise, southern Wales was extensively colonized by English peasants
imported by the Marcher lords in the medieval period.