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More French speaking Irish Catholics in Quebec and Louisiana and Acadia, more Spanish speaking Irish Catholics in New Mexico and Texas? People who could choose to spell their name O'Brien or Obregon, it's all really the same name.

Could France, or possibly Spain, better leverage Irish Catholics for settler colonial projects? Or possibly some of that remnant Catholic, Gaelic-speaking minority of Highland Scots? The French who always seemed short of colonial manpower for their North American colonies while they lasted...