Sam has hit it very much on the head with his potted history of the Hibs. I do have a significant Irish strain in my family, but consider myself a Scot and proud of it.
Many Hibernian fans still feel a distant link with the old country, but like any fifth/ sixth generation group, its a historical thing.
One wee correction to our Slovenian Hibby's story is the fact that Hibernian were in fact formed in Little Ireland or the Cowgate as it is now and prior to Irish Immigration, was known, not the Grassmarket.
I speak as the man who spent ten's of thousands of pounds belonging to a large Edinburgh Assurance Company refurbishing St Mary's Hall (original Home of Hibernian and the CYMS) in the early 1990's.
Hibernian, First to wear the Green
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