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Adagia Scotica, or, A collection of Scotch proverbs and proverbial phrases
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Year: 1668 Publisher: London : Printed for Nath. Brooke ...,

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The Scotch-Irish : a social history.
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ISBN: 0807888915 9780807888919 9780807842591 0807842591 9798893130799 Year: 1962 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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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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Ulster to America : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830
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ISBN: 1283411709 9786613411709 1572338326 9781572338326 1572337540 9781572337541 9781283411707 6613411701 Year: 2012 Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,

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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

The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas
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ISBN: 1299053645 1603445412 9781603445412 9781299053649 1585445207 9781585445202 Year: 2006 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,

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The Scotch-Irish immigration to America : economic hardship in Ireland (1603-1775)
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ISBN: 1508140995 9781508140993 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : PowerKids Press,

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This book follows the Scotch-Irish as they move from Scotland to Ireland, finding their own set of challenges there. Faced with famine and drought, the Scotch then moved to America. Readers will learn about the pioneering spirit of the Scotch Irish as they settle on the American frontier and built a strong cultural legacy.

Ulster and North America : transatlantic perspectives on the Scotch-Irish
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ISBN: 0585178828 9780585178820 9780817308230 0817308237 0817311351 9780817311353 0817308237 Year: 1997 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,


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Romantic Ireland : from Tone to Gonne : fresh perspectives on nineteenth-century Ireland
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ISBN: 1443853585 9781443853583 9781443844208 1443844209 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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