Ulster plantations take place with Ethnic Germans

What if the plantations of ulster had been carried out on the same scale as OTL but with ethnic Germans constituting the majority of settlers. What if the protestant community in Northern Ireland was an 'extra-territorial' German community, like the Volga Germans, Transylvania Saxons or Pennsylvania Dutch? What if a dialect of Low German known as ülster-Deutsch was the mother tongue of Northern Ireland's protestant population?
 
Why?

The English wanted loyal boots on the ground, and they had plenty of Scottish lowlanders who were willing enough to bow to Westminster and happy enough to leave the marginal soils of Scotland for the Green Island.

Maybe for some reason they prefer Hanoverians, but...why?
 
Why?

The English wanted loyal boots on the ground, and they had plenty of Scottish lowlanders who were willing enough to bow to Westminster and happy enough to leave the marginal soils of Scotland for the Green Island.

Maybe for some reason they prefer Hanoverians, but...why?

And how do they persuade them, in the early C17?

Many of the original Planters were Borderers whose tradition of cattle-raiding had been made untenable by the Union of Scotland and England. Ulster was a slightly better option than America or the noose.
 
Why?

The English wanted loyal boots on the ground, and they had plenty of Scottish lowlanders who were willing enough to bow to Westminster and happy enough to leave the marginal soils of Scotland for the Green Island.

Maybe for some reason they prefer Hanoverians, but...why?

I'm thinking the Volga Germans of OTL go the other way for some reason.
 
I'm thinking the Volga Germans of OTL go the other way for some reason.

You wouldn't need to divert the entire movement of 18th Century German immigration. I remember reading that the percentage of Germans who migrated to the American colonies in colonial times (the ancestors of the Pennsylvania Dutch, etc) was a fraction of that who went to the Russian Empire (the ancestors of the Volga Germans). Ireland is tiny by comparison.
 
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