evidence: "The Ulster Protestant Gaelic tradition originates with lonnaitheoirí Albanacha - Scottish settlers who arrived in the 17th century. "Labhair cuid mhór acu Gaeilge - many of them spoke Gaelic or were of Gaelic extraction." [...] The Presbyterian Synod of Ulster ensured that its students for the ministry learned Irish. Significant numbers of native Irish were converted to Protestantism and many English or lucht labhartha na hAlbainise - Scots-speakers learned Irish, the day-to-day language of their new homeland. Add the factors of intermarriage and the Anglicisation of Gaelic surnames and one wonders what tiny fraction of the Protestant population of Ulster has no Gaelic background?