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‘Sheep stealers from the north of England’:
the Riding Clans in Ulster by Robert Bell
Published in 20th Century Social Perspectives, Early Modern History (1500–1700),

Features, Gaelic Ireland, Issue 4 (Winter 1994), Volume 2
The troubles of the last twenty five years have served to focus the minds of Ulster
people on their history. They are more conscious than ever of their ancestors-Gaelic,
Norman, English, Huguenot, Lowland Scot, Highland Scot. But that consciousness
has neglected and all but forgotten one particularly influential immigrant group.
Most often they are lumped in with the Lowland Scots. But while a majority of them
were nominally Scottish, they were in fact a distinctively homogenous race who
stemmed from a very particular region, with its own unique history and culture. Today,
the only trace of them in the popular consciousness is that many by the name of
Armstrong or Elliott, Graham, Johnston or Bell are dimly aware, to their mock chagrin,
that their ancestors were ‘sheep stealers from the north of England’. Perhaps handed
down through the generations, the phrase is a cosy blanket thrown over a wild and
bloody history. The ancestors in question were the Riding Clans of the Scots Borders.
Their official, and most accurate, designation was the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
but these rustlers were known by a host of names: the Borderers, the Raiders, the

Steel Bonnets, the Riding Clans, the Reivers

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