This is where the mass immigration of the Irish into Glasgow really affected Scottish Catholics - my ancestors arrived here before Robert the Bruce and William Wallace's did - yet I need to explain to Protestants I am not Irish, and my ancestors were here before most of theirs.

I often have to explain to my Protestant brethren in Glasgow, it’s not a Catholicism that is the problem, it’s Irish Marxism. Unfortunately in Glasgow and Dundee particularly - grievance, Marxism and anti-Britishness has become synonymous with Catholicism. Most people confuse the these things.

@ScotForUnity The English Catholics have been in England since before we were even a kingdom, yet many Protestants want to claim that we're outsiders or bringing foreign influence. Meanwhile, Protestantism requried a literal foreign invasion to force on the population.

@ScotForUnity Before Martin Luther had a few ideas, there were only Catholics in Scotland.

@ScotForUnity Not many prods think like that imo. If anything I always heard you lot pretend to be Irish when you are scottish . I see the divide closing and more people coming together as Scots against the crazy nature of mass immigration.

@ScotForUnity Being brought up Protestant, I remember the Pope visit to Scotland, my mother was pleased for the Catholics of the Highlands and Western Isles, Glasgow less so. I now live on the east coast, thankfully.

@ScotForUnity In Dal Riata probably. In Strathclyde, Northumbria, Lothian and Grampian probably not.

@ScotForUnity Same with English Catholics.

@ScotForUnity Was Bruce really a Christian? He murdered a man in cold blood in a Church. Not exactly up there with Jesus is he? Also all Scots that were Christian were simply Christians. Not Catholics. They would’ve identified as Christians not specifically ‘Roman Catholics’.

@ScotForUnity It’s the same reason there is denominational education in historic Aberdeenshire or Kincardineshire and no Catholic secondary schools north of Dundee, the Catholic community are not incomers with a huge chip on their shoulder but with long established Scottish heritage.

@ScotForUnity Interestingly enough, Scottish Catholic immigrants to Canada & US blended seamlessly into Irish Catholic communities & parish structures all the while maintaining some distinctiveness: big on WW1/WW2, soccer, the royals, Highland dancing - the vibe with the old country was diff