Are Kilts from Scotland OR Ireland? (Some Basic Gaelic Garb History)

Are kilts Irish or Scottish?
What did the Scottish wear before kilts?
Why did the Irish wear kilts? (if they did)
Was there, or is there, a pan-gaelic garment?
What is the Irish Brat? What is an Irish léine?
The traditional great kilt (“breacan an fheilidh” or “feile mor”) dates back to around the 16th century. But who came up with the idea?
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[@MrJerryrigged1]

"What's worn under the kilt?' "Nothin' Ma'am, it's all in fine shape!"

[@TruthQuest4700]

The great kilt was a fine example of multifunctional minimalism long before minimalism became a modern design trend.

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

I feel like the need for function was much stronger before fashion was the goal, so a lot of historical gfarments were very useful.

[@tireachan6178]

These guys are extremely on point about the historical basis of Gaelic Apparel. Excellent.

[@tireachan6178]

@ZvandeSC Tomato, tomato! You are aware that more than one pronunciation of the same word does not alter it's meaning? Say tomato any way you want and it still doesn't taste an different in your sandwich

[@OldNavajoTricks]

Kjalta in old Norse means folded blanket or lap, folks have been wearing variants of 'kilts' forever.

[@charlesstanford1310]

Hopi and other Puebloan men, Polynesians, Greeks, Turks . . .

[@whiskeyvictor5703]

A "Kilt" sounds much better than a "Sampwug" (Stupendous Amazing Multi-Purpose Woollen Utility Garment). 😁

[@OldNavajoTricks]

@@whiskeyvictor5703 Oh great, wait til some hipster sees that and decides to rename it haha!

[@chrisrichardson8988]

Fabric down to the ankles can annoyingly collect thorns and seeds, in addition to water and mud. Fortunately, even wet wool will keep you warm.

[@justinclark6053]

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[@USAKiltsOfficial]

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[@TheKiltedClimber]

Interesting video guys!

[@johnbyington3458]

There about the 5 minute mark, y'all began to speak of the evolution of the kilt. I had read, I think in a military history magazine, that the Scottish Regiments began to cut their kilts down when they started arriving in America and having to fight in the back-country (western Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina) because they kept getting tangled in the under-brush. After they started returning to Scotland, it began to catch-on.

[@janice506]

The British government adopted the kilt & outlawed kilt wearing in Scotland so Scot’s would start dressing like the English. Our language & culture was taken away by the English.

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

Appreciate the conversation.

[@douglassmith3941]

I have worn shorts almost year round and I live in the woods of Missouri. You get used to stepping through briers and other thorny and otherwise pokey wilderness situations, and you just toughen up to it or learn how to step through so its less prickly. Mostly you just get used to it. Kilts are something I'm getting used to when I am hunting. I need a quieter sporan. I also tend towards utility kilt in the woods and deeper forest areas of our property. They are very practical. (I'm still getting used to the breeze ). Pockets are still an essential for me. Perhaps a kilt with removable pockets options for the future for me. I get a lot of skirt comments from a few people, but from my friends at work, they are very positive when I mention wearing my kilt. I can't wear it to work however for company safety reasons of being exposed to chemicals at times.

[@richardeasterlow6988]

The lèine was also definitely worn in medieval Scotland. The galloglass, a type of Irish warrior, originated in the Western Isles and west of Scotland. These galloglass definitely wore the lèine and didn't just adopt this in Ireland.

[@brumbybailey6599]

As a shepherd i would like to point out that yes it is easier to deal with thistles in a kilt like garment.

[@ruygutierrez1512]

There is a museum in northwestern Spain (Galicia) where they have several statues of "kings" dating around 1000 bc where one can clearly appreciate a kilt-like garment and a pattern on the carving which is also clearly a plaid !!!

[@whiskeyvictor5703]

link to photo?

[@sav7568]

Ireland was settled by the Gaels who came from Galicia, hence the word " gaelic ".

[@johnmaclagan2263]

@@sav7568 wee bit more to it than that, descriptive words of language spoken "the gaels", the Scots = Scoti tribe or you going with the myth of an Egyptian queen ?

[@valterrenatodeandradeponte4099]

Actually from North Portugal (Gaellecia South) our statues are now in the Museu de Arte Antiga in Lisbon

[@pickleslayer3381]

Incorrect, the word Gael actually comes from Old Welsh “Guoidel” meaning a wild man or warrior (cf. Modern Welsh “Gwyddel”), hence the unreformed Irish spelling “Gaedheal”, reflecting the voiced dental fricative (i.e. the sound at the start of the word “the”)-this sound disappeared from Irish in the late Middle Ages (as it did in French).

[@skaboodlydoodle]

Sweat management is a thing in literally every environment. You're still going to sweat in the arctic if you're moving around enough. That's why most alpine hikers actually dress so they can shed layers the more active they get. The body gets astoundingly hot and sweaty even in very cold climates with enough physical exertion.

[@toxicronin]

if you walk . around the field in the highlands. the grass is not just grass they are sort of bols with gaps between. if you walk around your trauser get realy wet. soo i think it's more that. water also . but i think the most the high wet gras/heather

[@PickleRick65]

Interesting 👍👌

[@CyprinusCarpioDiem]

Try picking thistle thorns out of wool lol

[@briaincampbellmacart6024]

My own thinking is that the kilt evolved out of pan Gaelic dress traditions, with both Scotland and Ireland contributing at various points in time. The other thing that complicates things though is the toing and froing of populations, from the time of the Galloglass, to the later lowland clearances, to the plantations, to the potato famine. To what degree are the Scots Irish and the Irish Scots? Personally I would be more inclined to simply say Gaelic.

[@charlesstanford1310]

I rigged up an Afghan patu/patoo into a makeshift great kilt for a hike. It worked pretty well. I think of the toga or the himation as variations on this theme. Other pastoral cultures have evolved other versions of the big garment that can serve as a shelter - like the Turkish kepenek.

[@anthonyeaton5153]

An English lady asked a Scotsman if anything is worn under his kilt, he replied aye, it is worn but still in good working order.

[@andyleighton6969]

Going bare legged in the Highlands. Midges: Hell yes! 😱😱

[@jayn9559]

Plus if your walking up mountain would u go in a kelt or pants? I would wanna go to the kelt

[@stephencrompton4352]

I'm pretty sure some american are more proud of being scottish than actual scottish

[@theshadow5503]

Because they don't have a national identity, so they cling to Bloodlines. Same thing happens in Canada. Majority of Euro-Canadians have Scottish Blood, myself Included. Because of that a lot of Older Canadian Culture has Scottish Roots.

[@coldfire10k65]

@@theshadow5503 a lot of the original Scots were pushed out by the British or taken over and the rest of the highlanders came to America in places like virginia

[@adamwiggins9865]

Venom243 well... our Canadian way allows for people to retain cultural customs... less of the conformist mentality I would say. And a great number of our military regiments are Highland regiments, so most towns have a pipe band in their parades.. lots of grandparents who were veterans were pictured in a Balmoral or Glen rather than the beret not to mention most of the older towns are mostly Scottish or German settles so the buildings and town layouts have that old world feel.

[@gregdavis19]

Ketamine I Need I’m extremely proud to be Scot/ American!

[@Baneslayer]

Venom243 just like AFRICAN americans?

[@hardywatkins7737]

Yeah i agree about the rain and wanting bare lower legs. I was caught out one day a couple of miles from home, wearing jeans in heavy rain and having to walk just half a mile through long grass and bracken. My legs up to my crotch soaked and walking became extremely laborious and difficult. Really wish i'd worn shorts. You could pick up ticks from the bracken but that could happen anyway.

[@jamesalanstephensmith7930]

Interesting

[@HistoryOnTheLoose]

Insomuch as stone tools developed across all areas where early humans existed, then evolved into lever-assisted implements, it cannot be ignored that all early burgeoning cultures' first garments were almost certainly wrap-around style. For simplicity and economically, this garment is the logical first step to clothing. Early Egyptian artwork clearly illustrates the garment's unisex utilization, with later development of a diaper-like effect. Ancient Greek billowing body wraps were nothing short of their own early variation on the later great kilt (albeit with different intentions and textiles). It would be shortsighted to arrogantly claim that either of the two cultures dealt with in this video "invented" the concept of a male wrap-around garment, but they can certainly lay claim to the style to which the idea finally evolved into for their respective styles. .... Good and informative video. Nicely done.

[@sapien82]

im sure sumerian , akkadian , assyrian all wore pre kilt garments

[@dagome_prime]

That's very interesting, that the history of Gealic Celts predates the trousers in Europe. The first Gaels were most probably a part of the 'Bell Beaker culture' (on Islands: c. 2500-1800 B.C. SIC! See: B. Cunliffe, J.T. Koch 'Celtic from the West', Oxbow Books 2010). Also centuries later, first recognisable continental Celts (more related to Welsh people) of Haallstat culture (c. 1200-500 B.C), used to present themselves without trousers (probably in tunics or sometimes even kilts). So, maybe the 16th century Scottish kilt was in fact a sort of revival of a very, very old fashion? BTW. tartan pattern is also extremally old.

[@outreachart624]

Would you mind if I used this awesome video in my Art documentary?

[@USAKiltsOfficial]

Sure, so long as we get credit. :-)

[@carolreid5405]

I love a kilt on men.

[@renataostertag6051]

So do I !

[@timmycook6708]

I love my great kilt, it's great for outdoors but it's too much fabric for everyday wear so I can see why they would want to cut the top off and stitch up the pleats.

[@Oooo-bi7bi]

I have a Harris tweed shooting jacket. It’s much more practical and pleasant to wear than modern hill walking jackets. On the Pennines or other high moorlands.It’s so boggy trousers without gators just give the damp something to climb. It’s more practical to change socks daily then leg protection. The kilt is still probably number one if you have to live and travel outdoors for a period of time.

[@jimpomac]

The Kilt is actually of French origin, hence "the garb of old Gaul Gaul and Gallic

[@cooldaddy2877]

Thanks for showing me at 1:56. I am wearing the traditional yellow léine (LAYNA) and a black brat with white fringe. My everyday clothes by the way!

[@loonylinn8824]

i read a book about norse people and one of the book page talks about their clothing or garment worn is a kilt meaning pleats, then it spreads to scottish highlands

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

Absolutely not. This is hogwash created to pretend there is no riisbinfluence in Scotland but rathe rirish culture came from Scotland which came from Norway, so they claim. They say the same thing about the fiddle.

[@ryanpiatt1804]

Any chance the Roman or Germanic tunic influenced bare legged dress? If I'm not mistaken the majority of the ancient world did not wear pant like leg coverings, so why wouldn't it be a normalized thing?

[@mikaeltillenius8751]

Just a simple question, how was the people in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England dressed when the Vikings came there and how was they dressed when (most of) they left (about) 250 years later? 🤔

[@galoglaich3281]

Mikael Tillenius I don't think the vikings would have had much impact on the apparel of the natives since what they wore themselves wouldn't have been much different.For example for ireland the only thing that marked them out from the locals is that they were pagan and they spoke a different language everything else would have been similar ,similar clothes ,clan based society just like the irish, laws similar to irish native brehon law so much so they adopted the brehon laws within a few decades of arrival.The only noticeable change they brought to ireland would have been in weapons and armour. Checkout the medieval irish history channel he specialises in viking period history mostly centered on ireland specifically ,but also on the period in general.He also collaborates with an other excellent irish youtuber clans and dynasties also worthy of a look.

[@mikaeltillenius8751]

@@galoglaich3281 Yes, you had only one English Viking King there! 😉

[@imjuzsayin..5017]

It's a revolutionised fashion. Came from Malacca, brought by Portuguese or Hollanda/Belanda (Holland). Gingham came from word genggang.

[@V.Hansen.]

You ever get thorns in your sock? Maybe even thistles are better not getting stuck.

[@Swingkat13]

Anyone know what tartan Rocky is wearing here?!?

[@USAKiltsOfficial]

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[@jameshorne9351]

The great kilt was the original "thneed" from the Lorax 😮😂

[@glennspringthorpe6227]

What about Welsh Cilts. Their family names/clans have identifiable tartans too. I refer you to the Welsh Tartan Center. X

[@cooldaddy2877]

You are correct. The brat became the great kilt around the late 1500's/early 1600's, although it took a while to catch on. The English were hell bent on destroying the Irish and Highland Scottish linen industry as they had such a strong hatred to the brightly coloured léine. Anyhoo, the léine died out and the Irish adopted English style clothes while the Highlanders adapted the brat into a new garment, the great kilt.

[@janice506]

They done the same thing in Scotland outlawed wearing the kilt to the common man making them dress & talk like themselves.

[@taph2o]

Roman military garb was a form of kilt/skirt with bare leg.

[@MrJerryrigged1]

The last one that called it a skirt got kilt!

[@alaskangal1973]

Clan Thompson!

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

Who wore kilts and why? 🐉

[@HaloisTight]

Someday i'm going to wear an irish leine with a kilt or great kilt just for the hell of it.

[@danacampbell8331]

Do it!

[@HaloisTight]

@@danacampbell8331 I definitely will once I get an irish leine.

[@SC-hk6ui]

Check out how they pronounce the leine in Ireland - your just need to drop the "ya" part from the end.

[@gerryminnock9833]

Leine(lay-na)is irish for shirt, i learned that in school im so intelligent(im irish(

[@TheEggmaniac]

The Irish leine is not the same as, or related to the Scottish kilt. The leine was a traditional Irish garment like a shirt , that had sleeves. Usually made from flax. It was also worn by the clans of the Scottish highlands. The Scottish kilt, even in its early forms, was made of wool and wrapped around the body from shoulder to the knee. With a belt to tie it at the waist. The Scottish kilt went through many changes from before the middle ages onwards. The modern version was created in about 1720. It then evolved again in the early 19th century, in Scotland, to be the smaller kilts Scottish men wear these days. The Irish copied this version. Then Irish kilts started to appear in the late 19th century. The Irish kilt of this time. wasnt tartan, it was in the traditional colour of saffron. Which had been the colour the Irish leine had been in the past. There were no Irish tartans until about the 1970s, when people in Ireland decided to copy Scottish tartans. So they invented some. It was good for selling merchandise to tourists. There is no evidence of Irish tartans found before then. There have been some pieces of cloth, with a tartan pattern discovered in Ireland, but they turned out to a be from a Scot who lived or died in there.

[@poundlandbandit6124]

Incorrect, the Ulster Tartan was made in Ireland dated to the late 1500s, not worn by a Scot.

[@TheEggmaniac]

@@poundlandbandit6124 The earliest evidence of tartan in Ireland was in a set of clothing uncovered in Dungiven, in the north of Ireland in 1956. It was made of a cloak, a jacket and a pair of tartan trews. This is from the Ulster Journal of Archaeology. 'The garments were dated as "from about 1590 to 1650... the trews, on account of their fine fabric and tartan weave, are more likely to be associated with a Highlander of rank, one who might also have sided with the O'Neills in the Tyrone Wars or the Rebellion of 1641-49." Considering that the north of Ireland is only12 miles by sea, from Scotland, its extremely plausible the owner of the trews had travelled to Ireland from Scotland. Also at this period there was a large movement of Scots into this part Ireland, which became part of the plantation of Ireland. Experts agree that origin of this material was most likely Scotland. What Ulster Tartan are you referring to?

[@kscptv]

When Ireland was attached to Scotland this is where some of the commonalities come from. The Welsh and Cornish people brought over their style of garb to Ireland as well. This is how Ireland developed their own style once the Island was separated by the Sea.

[@TheEggmaniac]

@@kscptvIreland was never attached to Scotland or any other country. There was never a land bridge between them. Sea levels have never dropped that low. Of course there have been commonalities in clothing between countries that are near each other. But there have also been distinctive differences.

[@kscptv]

@@TheEggmaniac not true Jack. Ireland was attached to Scotland going back when the country Doggerland was in the North Sea. Research it. Fact

[@bobbieschke599]

Was not the Roman toga an influence on the kilt ?

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

No the kilt is much later and the Roman's didn't conquer either Ireland or Scotland. I think Highlanders and Irish Gaels dressed relatively similarly up until the 1500s - 1600s and then the kilt became popular in Scotland. Tartan threws were worn in Ireland, as a pair from the 1600s were found in Donegal from that period and are on display in the museum in Dublin. But the kilt as known today is entirely Scottish. The Irish do were a saffron kilt which is said to resemble the old leine.

[@bobbieschke599]

@@antseanbheanbocht4993 I play in an Irish pipe band and we wear the saffron !

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

@@bobbieschke599 Where do you play? In Ireland? I play uilleann pipes but I'd like to give the GHB a go.

[@bobbieschke599]

@@antseanbheanbocht4993 in the States , Maryland to be exact . I play the bass and played the snare in a Scottish band . My mom's side are Mc Dermott Irish .

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

@@bobbieschke599 The McDermotts princes of Coolvin formerly kings of Moylurgh. One of the oldest royal lines in Europe. The title still exists although the family are inside the English peerage these days, the house in Coolvin was only sold recently to an outsider but I believe the title was passed on successfully. Nollaig shona duit mo col ceathrar sna stáit aontaithe. Happy christmas to you my cousin in the United states.

[@TheNuclearKnight]

Going bare legged was mainly to deal with the bogs in Ireland and Scotland. Even English soldiers fighting in Ireland are known to have gone bare legged at times. There's even contemporary paintings of them

[@conorfields171]

this the first generation of irish men that hasnt had a brits boot on our neck

[@justinkasse6340]

Aside from thistles, consider bracken and heather

[@marilyngandhi4213]

There are eastern mediterranean people who wear kilts too.

[@klimtkahlo]

Yes I read that too! It is a mystery! There is a variation of it in Northern Portugal along with bag pipes. And no, Portugal only borders the Atlantic. I am referring to the fact that skirt wearing men exist besides Scotland, but I do wonder if we are related. Well, we are all related, no doubt, but a closer connection is what I wonder…

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

@@klimtkahlo tunics... tunics... they're pretty common.

[@thelostcreole]

Bare legged? They got that from the Romans that made it to fringe of Scottland

[@petergrossett6763]

You're presuming the first kilts started.somewhere and radiated out. The kilt as been around for millennium. Having said that if the Irish dont want the kilt fair enough, but many seem happy to adopt it.

[@marcosross790]

Peter Grossett, What do you mean when you say if the Irish don't want the kilt... We love the Kilt!!!!

[@petergrossett6763]

Marcos Ross. As a kilt wearer and lover I'm delighted! Especially as my mother's Irish!

[@David-lu4gq]

Just wondering, but do you have any info in terms of the Kilt being around for 'millennium'? As far as I know, it didn't come about until the end of the 15th/start of the 16th century.

[@petergrossett6763]

David Dowdall. I' m no expert. Short answer no. However trousers certainly werent as universal as they are now. Romans saw trousers were for barbarians. Egytian kilts are histoical as are Greek kilts. Historically when trousers come in robes/skirts/kilts go out, and stay out. So where did the Scottish kilt come from? I'd say an earlier more primative kilt.

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

@@petergrossett6763 perhaps tribes were copying roman fashion. Who the fuck knows.

[@seamush1654]

Pronounced 'lay-na' (Léine..its modern Irish for simply, 'shirt')

[@richardeasterlow6988]

Same in Scottish Gaelic, although the accent goes the other way (lèine)

[@andyleighton6969]

There's a very plausible theory that EVERYBODY wore some sort of "tube" until the domestication of horses made a tube for each leg more practical - and that "trousers" only came into Northern Europe from the Pontic Steppe with the horse domesticating, PIE speaking, R1/R2 haplotype carrying, peoples some 5000[ish] years ago.

[@Scotland29]

Why do they think that the highlands are any different from the uk

[@janice506]

The highlands are completely different to the rest of the Uk fact .

[@christophersilsby7829]

Go out and do some hard work and you'll sweat, and it is a bad thing at night because it draws heat away the core of the body.

[@angelot1549]

Scottish....I could paddle about for 20 mins and I b in Ireland just now so we either did it together or we did

[@timothybryan5113]

A Kilt sounds like a THNEED from the Lorax

[@whiskeyvictor5703]

🤣🤣🤣

[@alaskangal1973]

I'm adopted. I am biologically Scottish. Thank you for helping me learn my history! Scottish....not German!❤

[@daddypadman4723]

Leine is pronounced ‘layinnyeh’ fyi

[@whiskeyvictor5703]

English speakers have trouble with word-final 'eh'; we either delete it or replace it with an easier-to-pronounce 'ah', e.g. Porsche, pronounced either Porsh or Porshah.

[@Zamolxes77]

You telling me scots in Braveheart never had kilts ?? Whaaaa?

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

yeah,believe if you can,i never believed in the historical accuracy of the clothes in the movie,thankfully.

[@robokill387]

Braveheart is the most historically inaccurate movie ever made.

[@royhurley7572]

"Scoti" is latin for "Irish", yes?

[@benjamingrist6539]

I think you're close, though my knowledge on the subject is limited. I do know that the Romans referred to the island of Ireland as "Scotia Major".

[@nutyyyy]

Scoti was the Roman name for a group of people from Ireland

[@O3177O]

Scotti is Irish for Irish , the Romans just called us by what we called ourselves

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

@@O3177O don't your guys call yourself Gaels ,though?

[@O3177O]

@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 yes we do as well

[@briaincampbellmacart6024]

Gàidhlig Leine = shirt Leine-t = tee shirt

[@chrisoleary9876]

At 1:45 the leine is pronounced lay-nah. It means "shirt" to this day. Your mispronounced version hurts my ears.

[@angelicart.6]

Chris OLeary “leeeeeeein” that’s how he pronounced

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

Thats how I pronounce it... Linya and thats how my teachers spoke. My teacher wrote the book for the national curriculum...

[@charlessavoie2367]

False question, false premise, they came from Roman Britain. Same as bagpipes came from the Romans in Greece.

[@Peter14523]

Greeks wear them

[@bledarlazaj1076]

Please do not say that, fustanella is a Albanian dress, wich was Worn by arvanites only, and you know Why

[@angelicart.6]

And after all, there is me: a ITALIAN girl how casually read on Wikipedia the kilts where founded by an English man! What a fool I’ve been...By the way, REALLY GOOD VIDEO, I LOVE ALL THE CELTIC TRADITION! ☺️❤️

[@jasonjasonson1517]

Not one mention of EGYPT🤔 you both dropped the ball.

[@raleighburner1589]

The ancient irish went to Scotland and the rest is history

[@OldNavajoTricks]

It's even named for the Scoti tribes that came.

[@brucecollins4729]

@@OldNavajoTricks you seriously need to do some indepth research. the sotti is a tale made up by irish monks to give ireland an identity.

[@OldNavajoTricks]

@@brucecollins4729 I shall do that, thank you for expanding my knowledge Pal 👍

[@brucecollins4729]

@@OldNavajoTricks here,s just one to start you off.type in .....the book of invasions-irelands mythical history. there,s lots more. then type in queen scota for more myth. scotlands name may have greek origins. then type in......the origin of the irish and scottish gaels as revealed by their dna.....this is a more believable route than that infantile irish nonsense. irish pipe bands and kilts are scottish in origin. irish music adopted from scotland in the early 60s when irish bands like the clancies/dubliners appeared and adopted the scottish style alang with many scots and english sangs.(i know this because i was around in the 50s/60s. ceilidhs adopted from scotland after two irishmen were invited to one in 1893 where they adopted the lively music and dance. the irish had there first one 3 years later. just look up the origins of fiddle music in ireland. introduced there by the scots.many irish tunes like . rakish paddy,the gravel walk, the boyne hunt, the fairy reel and 100s more are actually scottish. fiddle reel music and strathpeys are scottish . jigs and hornpipes are english. look up the irish word criac . they were about a 100 years too late with that also. irish pub music sessions only started in the 50s having been in scotland and england for centuries. people need to do some indepth research. i have come across some st patricks day parades in amerikay on you tube and the only thing irish about it is the flag.when you attend your irish ceili at night(scottish in origin, then your jamiesons whisky( he was a scotsman) as is whisky in origin. then have your guinness( origins in england) invented by ralph harwood.

[@OldNavajoTricks]

@@brucecollins4729 That is a fantastic reference pool mate and I shall have a scooch as I can, having family links to the Mennies in Belfast I really should look into the Irish side more :-)

[@lonebiker931]

I think kilts are from Greece..

[@bledarlazaj1076]

You are wrong my friend thet you cold now fustanella which is a Albanian dress in the antiquity named dalmatika. Ilirian dress

[@brucecollins641]

the kilt in ireland was adopted in the late 1800s from scotland by irish nationalists to distance themselves from the colonial english. as were bagpipes/ceilidths/fiddles/fiddle reel music/stepdance and more.

[@evelynlamoy8483]

I'm pretty sure forms of the greatkilt have been being worn by both groups for much longer than that. like before the gaels and picts of alba unified into the single identity of scots. when the idea of scots and gaels were the same since the sea connects both and they come fromt he same peoples. Honestly the weirdos on the isles are the anglos since their not celtic at all.

[@gerryminnock9833]

Broga is irish for shoes

[@RehdClouhd]

Technically Ireland but both as the people who became Scotland as we know it were actually Irish, came over around 20-500ad. They pushed put Picts, then slowly conquered/ mixed with picts. They were brothers and thought of themselves as cousins for centuries and they are more closely related to the north Spain Spaniards than the English. (Hard to see or prove today as the past 400 years have seen much more mixing with English and Spaniards also much mixing over past 2000 years with Mediterranean peoples. Not a direct answer but it sheds light on how the Irish and Scottish of centuries past related to one another and shared culture and customs, while being "separate" peoples/nations. As always, it isn't so simple.

[@GeneralPadron]

Um, Galicia is not in Ireland or Scotland. It is in north western España. I know, because my pop's side of the family is from Padrón, Galicia, España. The origin of all Gaelics...Galicia.

[@DeclinedMercy]

There is some truth to this, Irish have a strong genetic link to the people living in Northern Spain

[@nubeirothropic]

And the oldest kilts ever represented or shown is actually in the Celtic region of Gallaecia (Galicia and North Portugal) where we have statues of warriors wearing kilts, dating back to 400 B.C.E. !

[@klimtkahlo]

@@nubeirothropic True. I am Portuguese and did an ancestry test and came up 7% Irish and 4% Scottish ( or British, I choose to believe It is Scottish). I bet this is true for most Portuguese. Also let’s not forget our Pauloteiros de Miranda that play bag pipes and wear “skirts”

[@nubeirothropic]

@@klimtkahlo well it's not skirts but rather a type of Kilt and yes, the more Northwest you go in the peninsula the more Celtic blood you get. Also, Germanic too. To add, beware when you say "we" because Portugal actually has 3 distinctive native cultures with different origins. Pauliteiros de Miranda ultimately comes from our ancient Gallaecian/Celtic rituals before going to battle or really just a festival dance (no one knows for certain what used to be it's purpose).

[@robertoreilly230]

The kilt came from Egypt originally not Scotland or the Gaelic nations

[@celticscribe7887]

Kilts are Scottish.

[@raymondmoore2707]

Boo, boo!!

[@u.s.armywestpoint53]

The kilt and bagpipes are Irish protestant to worship Christ

[@janice506]

Wrong the Scottish Highlander we’re Catholic

[@charliebrown5755]

The kilt was invented in the 19th century.

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

So was the whole idea of celticness. Still, many actual elements of Irish culture were imbibed into the romantics works.

[@brucecollins4729]

@@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953 the irish only adopted the word "celtic" in the 1800s

[@Griefthaboy]

Actually the kilt came near the end of the 16th century

[@NuclearHaggis]

The short answer is Scotland and the long answer is Scooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootland. What a ridiculous channel.

[@iamdbatatnight5600]

Jason Gunn-Davis I’m Irish and Kilts come from Scotland .... but may and I only say may came from the Leine in style and origin .... but hey I understand how irritating it can be when foreigners try to reinvent history ... so I’m with you on this one

[@NuclearHaggis]

@@iamdbatatnight5600 But that simply isn't true. The belted plaid was worn over tunics and later shirts, It did not evolve from tunics, which is all the leine was.

[@angelicart.6]

Oh well, from the moment I saw there are so many Irish and Scottish I’m go to say “I LOVE YOU ALL SOOO MUCH, REALLY!” I’m Italian and that isn’t the point, but I really really really love all, of your countries, from the people to the landscapes 🥰🥰🥰

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

@@NuclearHaggis the fileadh mor is Irish in origin and is well documented being exported from Ireland pre Norman's.... you ridiculous man

[@mychannelgotmurderedbyyout5953]

@@NuclearHaggis Also, the highland people were Irish, referred to as such by themselves and others. That lowland Scots people wear kilts and pretend to be highlanders doesn't insult you?

[@gingebrien2408]

Ah Dude get real. The first documented kilt was with the Irish and as you know the kilt as we know it today, is based on the British highlanders. So give credit as credit is due. Yes it has evolved and yes that is your opinion which is wrong. Have a Guinness and deal.

[@TheEggmaniac]

There is no evidence of anything like a kilt in Ireland, until Scots mercenaries, known as gallowglass arrived there, in the middle ages.

[@sapien82]

loads ae staunin oan the shooders ae giants. Kilts were not invented in Scotland , they were popularised by us , i think they were first created in the middle east in the cradle of civilisation along with the alcohol and the pipes. We just took something that already existed and put our own flavour in it. If ye doubt the igenuity of the Scots then compare any other country to us and the contributions and inventions we have made and given to the world then not many stand beside us.

[@paulscott2313]

Kilts were neither Scottish or Irish. They were an English invention. The plaids originated in Ireland because the Scots came from Ireland.

[@brucecollins4729]

paul scott...no scots came from ireland. a mythical made up tale by irish monks to give ireland an identity. most irish culture only began in the 19th century.

[@poundlandbandit6124]

@@brucecollins4729 Incorrect. Gaelic culture and language definitely spread from Ireland to Scotland. The conquest by Fergus Mor is less likely, more grounded. theories claim the Gaels had settled some time before in a Scotland. This is the considered the most probable theory nowadays. I don’t understand the Irish culture being made up point? Considering it’s extremely well documented. Not sure if you’re mistaking the Gaelic revival with fabricating. Finally on the part of monks bolstering legends I have one thing to say. All accounts from Bede to Bruce acknowledge Ireland or more importantly Ulster as one of the cultural cradles for Scotland. All accounts mention this migration or cultural continuity.

[@brucecollins4729]

@@poundlandbandit6124 answer me a very simple question. where from and what route did the gaels take to get to ireland.

[@MultiSpeedMetal]

@@brucecollins4729 So then what are the Irish and where do they come from? And how do you explain the Irish language and pagan mythology clearly being Celtic? What Irish culture began in the 19th century? How do you explain the dna evidence connecting Ireland, Scotland and mainland celts in Spain? Explain yourself.

[@janice506]

The English don’t invent anything they steal from other cultures claiming it as their own .

[@sav7568]

Wrong. The mini skirt type kilts that these guys are wearing are a Scottish invention but the full size kilts that go over the shoulder are an Irish invention. While I'm here, the Irish also invented whisky and bagpipes.

[@sapien82]

did ye aye

[@mathieubaker1548]

Still looks like a woman's skirt to me.