Have to say it myself RSAUB he is telling it as it was. People who should maybe know better dive in and repeat whatever the 'oppressed','suppressed' and 'repressed' 
care to tell them. Webb was guilty of that too in his programme though he did explain how O Neill came to lose some of his land which was more a matter of wheeling-dealing something like what goes on in the business world today. The picture painted by the usual suspects is of the Scots riding in like the Mongol hordes burning,pillaging,and driving off the ordinary people as they worked in the fields. I read an account somewhere of what Antrim and Down were like when the first Scottish settlers arrived. It said something like ..in th Ards area there were not above a dozen houses. In 'Dawn of the Ulster-Scots' it says the place was desolate..uninhabited,neglected,barren. But of course that wouldn't fit in with the 'persecution' and NINA tales of the MOPE people.
