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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, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.
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In Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830, editor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the history of the Scots-Irish. In addition to presenting fresh information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish experience in the United States. In place of implacable Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness and isolation, the authors point to the tran
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Scots-Irish --- History. --- Sutherland, Anne --- Robertson family. --- Sutherland family. --- Family. --- Texas
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Scots-Irish --- Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Scotch Irish --- Ethnology --- History. --- History --- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) --- Cúigh Uladh (Northern Ireland and Ireland) --- Civilization. --- Emigration and immigration
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Irish literature --- English literature --- Scottish literature --- Romanticism --- Unionism (Irish politics) --- Scots-Irish in literature. --- Loyalism (Irish politics) --- Loyalist movement (Irish politics) --- Unionist movement (Irish politics) --- Irish question --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Scots literature --- British literature --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors --- History
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