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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1915
Language
English
Description
The passage of more than one hundred years since "The Scotch-Irish in America" was first published in 1915 has rendered the book no less fascinating and gripping. Written in a thoroughly accessible way, it tells the story of how the hardy breed of men and women, who in America came to be known as the 'Scotch-Irish', was forged in the north of Ireland during the seventeenth century. It relates the circumstances under which the great exodus to the New...
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
The following pages attempt for the first time a systematic treatment of the beginning of a migration of settlers of Scotch and English descent from the north of Ireland to the New World. Parker, Perry, Green, Hanna and other writers have collected much of general history and tradition; and they have so pictured the Scotch traits developed under Irish skies, that Scotch Irish blood, once a reproach, is now cause for pride. But the conditions in Ireland...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1962
Language
English
Description
Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania,...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 39
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1902
Language
English
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 40
Publisher
Bacon & Brown
Pub. Date
1910
Language
English
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