Problems of Identity?
Some people say — though I have seen no proof
That their assertions are well founded — that
The Scots were Irish but now haunt the hills
Of Caledonia’s bleak, blasted wastes;
The Irish, who now farm damp brown peat-bogs
Outwith Hibernia’s green pale, were Scots!.
If nations’ histories are so involved,
Can their confusions ever be resolved?
