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A historian I follow on twitter (Kamil Galeev) recently claimed that enlightenment-era Scots considered the Scottish Highlands an extension of Ireland and referred to their Highlands-dwelling countrymen as Irish? Is this true?

by /u/Asbestahedron in /r/AskHistorians

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