Cultural Connections and Cheese

Abstract

Movements of ideas and people throughout insular and peninsular western Europe extend from prehistoric times to the present, having given rise amongst other things to ‘connections and cultural relations’. Attempts were made in the 1970Sto chart some of these relationships between western Scotland and north-east Ireland using ethnological approaches.s concentrating on the Scots contribution to post-seventeenth-century popular culture in Ulster. Against the background of considerable population movement from Scotland to Ireland between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries, it is to be expected that the cultural contribution of Scots settlers and their descendants in northern parts of Ireland was appreciable. Linguistic manifestations of this contribution remain amongst the most easily recognized and have been much studied. However, as in many if not most instances of culture contact, the acculturative processes involved did not work always in one direction.