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Scots-Irish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the 2000 US Census, 4.3 million Americans (more than 2% of the white population in the USA) claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though estimates suggest that the true number of Scots-Irish in the USA is more in the region of 27 million. In Ulster however, considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots migrated to the North American colonies throughout the 18th century (250,000 settled in the USA between 1717 and 1770 alone). The Scots-Irish are descendants of the Ulster Scots immigrants who travelled to North America from Ulster in the late 17th and 18th centuries. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots-Irish_American   (2323 words)

Irish Ethnicity Autobiography @ Alky.com The late medieval era saw Scots gallowglass families of mixed Gaelic-Norse-Pict descent settle, mainly in the north; due to similarities of language and culture they too were assimilated. The Vikings were mainly Danes and Norwegians and despite their notorious reputation in Irish history, did not settle in particularly large numbers nor did they significantly alter the Irish polity. This usually occurred with Irish immigrants arriving in the United States during the 19th century and the early 20th century. www.alky.com /encyclopedia/Irish_ethnicity   (2346 words)

Scots language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Scots language It is also known as Inglis (now archaic, and a variant of ‘English’), Lallans (‘Lowlands’), Lowland Scots (in contrast with the Gaelic of the Highlands and Islands), and ‘the Doric’ (as a rustic language in contrast with the ‘Attic’ or ‘Athenian’ language of Edinburgh's literati, especially in the 18th century). With the transfer of the court to England upon the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the dissemination of the King James Bible, Scots ceased to be a national and court language, but has retained its vitality among the general population and in various literary and linguistic revivals. Scots derives from the Northumbrian dialect of Anglo-Saxon or Old English, and has been a literary language since the 14th century. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Scots+language   (313 words)

Spectator.org Though the American Scots-Irish are often criticized for their fondness for guns, though they are often called stubborn and scrappy "rednecks," Webb reminds us that he and his people have fought this country's wars in greater numbers than most other ethnic groups who have received disproportionately more respect. "Old Hickory" is one of many American leaders whose roots trace back to Scots-Irish ancestry, a group that includes Chester Arthur, Ulysses S. Grant, and Ronald Reagan, among others. American politics has been undeniably shaped by the Scots-Irish as well. www.spectator.org /util/print.asp?art_id=7361   (959 words)

Irish Abroad - Irish American News Irish Americans have gone into a worried state of pause, unhappy about the way the Middle East is developing but unwilling to be too open about their fears while American soldiers are at war. The Irish in America are viewed with, at best, a fitful interest from Dublin which only stirs into life over an occasional policy of the hour, for or against Sinn Fein for example, and they’re taken pretty much for granted by the American political system. The strength of the Irish in America was demonstrated in recent years in two arenas — the securing of green cards for undocumented Irish illegals, and the creation of the Irish peace process. www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/EmpowerIrishScots.asp   (889 words)

Old Regular Baptists of Southeastern Kentucky: A Community of Sacred Song The singing of the Old Regular Baptists from the Kentucky coal-mining country in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains is one of the oldest and deepest veins of the English/Scots/Irish-based American melodic traditions. The oldest lyrics are the 18th-century hymns, written chiefly by familiar English or American devotional poets and hymn writers such as Isaac Watts. The next layer consists of 18th-century pietism and the revival movements in New England and the American frontier. www.folklife.si.edu /resources/Festival1997/baptists.htm   (1599 words)

Scots-Irish The prospect of starvation led many to contract with speculators who sold human cargo in American ports where they sometimes became the property of Irish Protestants who had immigrated earlier. Ethnic Scots from the Lowlands with names like McDonald, McClung, McKee, and Campbell were as anglophilic as they were; and a variant of their language—the Scots dialect of poet Robert Burns—was also spoken in the northern shires of England south of the Tweed where it's known today as Geordie or Tyneside. The "Irish tract" was thus populated by grim, determined dissenters who attended meeting from forenoon 'til dusk on the Sabbath but also invoked the power of charms and spells to prevent witches from plaguing them with supernatural hardship. www.people.virginia.edu /~mgf2j/irish.html   (4086 words)

Tracing the Scots-Irish In addition to the Ulster American Folk Park outdoor museum in Ireland, the Scots-Irish are represented at the Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA 24402; 540.332.7850 There are not Scots-Irish parades or ethnic neighborhoods; these people became fully American. Although researchers should seek to understand their particular ancestors and their customs, convictions and motivations, all Americans can claim the Scots-Irish as their forbears, whether they find Scots-Irish blood in their lines or not. www.barlowgenealogy.com /Resources/scots-irish.html   (1705 words)

Scots-Irish : American The Scots-Irish Presbyterians settled in the American frontier during with the 18th century were a unique breed of people with an independent spirit which boldly challenged the arbitrary powers of monarchs and established the church. Sheds light on the Scotch Irish role in the Revolutionary War, settling the American frontier, the spread of the Presbyterian Church in America and more. Scottish-American Wills 1650-1900: Between the years 1650 and 1900, over 2,000 Scots, resident in North America, chose to have their wills registered and confirmed in Scotland rather than in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. www.bairdnet.com /books/page3.html   (533 words)

Powell's Books - Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. It chronicles how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0767916883   (821 words)

Irish American Index .US Special: Members of Congress, Irish and Irish-American (since 1774): Over 500 brief biographies and many photos and engravings of the members, Senate and House. Origin of family names and Irish and American documents relating to emigration... Index and profiles of Irish in the Society of the Society of the Cincinnati. www.irishamericanindex.us   (1195 words)

reversecowgirl: Scots-Irish American Scots-Irish Americans are descendants of the Ulster-Scots immigrants who came to North America from Ireland in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Unlike later immigrant groups, the Scots Irish discarded their past identity and are most likely to put their ethnicity as "American" on census forms. James Webb's book, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America", suggests that the character traits of the Scots Irish, loyalty to clan, mistrust of governmental authority, and military readiness, helped shape the "American Identity". reversecowgirl.blogspot.com /2005/09/scots-irish-american.html   (274 words)

American History Webb also gives the Scots-Irish their due for completely American art forms and pastimes, most notably country music, as well as the stereotype and the reality of hard-drinking, hard-working, straight-talking blue-collar America. From the 1730s, when they claimed the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia as their new homeland, Born Fighting chronicles how Scots-Irish Americans changed the nation's course and character. Born into an Irish Catholic family, Warren signed on as a seaman at age 13 and rapidly advanced in rank in the Royal Navy, a new profession in the early 1700s. www.wordtrade.com /history/america   (1230 words)

Policy Review, November-December, 1998 -- "Created Equal" by Lamar Alexander Being an American is not a matter of looking the same, or having grandparents from the same part of the world; it is a matter of believing in common principles. No southerner who has experienced the indignity of black Americans being pushed to the back of the bus, sent to separate hospitals, relegated to separate bathrooms, and kept out of many of the best schools and colleges because of their race can remain indifferent to the legacy of discrimination. To be an American means to be proud that this is a nation of immigrants. www.policyreview.org /nov98/equal.html   (2625 words)

Hyphenated American - The term hyphenated American is an epithet from the late 19th century to refer to Americans who consider themselves of a distinct cultural origin other than the United States, and who claim to hold allegiance to both. By contrast other groups have embraced the hyphen arguing that the American identity is compatible with alternative identities and that the mixture of identities within the United States strengthens the nation rather than weakens it. The result is that even if these Americans are, in Roosevelt's words, "American and nothing else," they still may end up having a different experience, and for that reason may develop shared understandings with others of their type, whether they want that or not. psychcentral.com /psypsych/Hyphenated_American   (962 words)

: Virginia Is For Lovers Irish Walk in Alexandria features a wide range of authentic Irish merchandise, including walking hats and caps, mohair blankets and capes as well as Aran cableknit sweaters. Ma ny Irish immigrants worked in Virginia's coal mines in the Heart of Appalachia and Blue Ridge Highlands regions, built the railroads, and worked in factories and shipyards throughout the commonwealth. The Irish were and continue to be ambitious -- especially for their children -- and they stand up for education, civil rights and religious freedom, not only in Virginia, but for the entire world! www.virginia.org /site/features.asp?FeatureID=171   (1080 words)

Scots-Irish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Scots-Irish American people of the United States A person of mixed Scottish and Irish heritage, a Celt. This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots-Irish   (91 words)

Review The History Teacher, 36.2 The History Cooperative The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764, by Patrick Griffin. Ulster Scots envisioned and experienced America, by contrast, as a land where all of their problems from Ireland could be turned inside out (p. Old World adhesions, such as the Irish church, provided a source of direction in a frontier society that was a clash of cultures and interests. www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/36.2/br_5.html   (861 words)

The Monarch Bear Institute He was raised in an extended old American Scots-Irish family, which had maintained Scots-Irish customs, values, and beliefs throughout over two hundred and eighty years of being in America. Variously known as the Ulster Scots, the Scots-Irish and the Scotch-Irish, they traveled in family groups rather than as individuals and settled together on America’s frontiers, where, because of interlocking family networks, their folkways became dominant. The ancient Earls of Lothian were important supporters of Queen Mary, Queen of the Scots, and had rescued her from jail at one point in Scotland, only to have her go against their advice, and go to England, seeking protection from Queen Elizabeth, at which point she was arrested by Queen Elizabeth. www.monarchbear.org /directors/roots.html   (3948 words)

The Fighting Scots-Irish The Americans in favour of dealing with the fascists were the Scots-Irish, who had a long tradition of military service, especially during the Civil War (on both sides). There is a connection between the Scots-Irish and an important American conception of liberty but it's not as though one can argue that they were wholly devoted to all that we mean by freedom and that others weren't. President William McKinley, said: "The Scots-Irish were the first to proclaim for freedom in these United States; even before Lexington Scots-Irish blood had been shed for American freedom. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1448532/posts   (5849 words)

Blatherings James Webb reveals the all-but-invisible ethnic group that has created the core beliefs of democracy American style: our rights come from God not the Government; all of us are born equal and ‘born aristocrats’ don’t exist; and tread on either of those two truths, and we’ll fight you down to the last unbroken hyoid bone. Just as Americans have made an effort to educate, understand and alter the treatment of marginalized groups and alternate cultures within our society, we have held on to poor whites as a group to demean." ~~Angel Price of Virginia University For their refusal to accept the Church of England, which they described as "Popery without the Pope", these Scots were persecuted by the British. neddybee.blogspot.com /2005/05/who-are-rednecks.html   (896 words)

ulsterscot.html This panel will cover such areas as the Scots-Irish influence on Southern speech patterns, folklore, literature and music; why American descendents know so little about their heritage; why their cultural traditions came to be stigmatized under the label "hillbilly"; and what relationship currently exists between Scots-Irish descendents in the South and those in Ireland. The Ulster Scots are the descendants of mostly Protestant Scottish people enticed by King James I to settle in the north of Ireland during the Ulster Plantation period starting in the early 1600s, sparking centuries of conflict with the displaced Catholic native Irish. Beginning in the early 1800s, hundreds of thousands of the Ulster Scots’ progeny immigrated to America, where they are known as the Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish. www.emory.edu /WELCOME/journcontents/releases/ulsterscot.html   (980 words)

VDARE.com: 06/15/03 - America’s Scotch-Irish And The Rove Rationale Perhaps because of this culture of courage, the backcountry Scots-Irish are the ethnic group that Americans most look toward for Presidential leadership, especially in times of foreign threat. Historian Walter Russell Mead recently proposed his own fourway division of Americans in terms of their foreign policy orientations. The articles on VDARE.com are brought to you by the Lexington Research Institute and The Center for American Unity. www.vdare.com /sailer/fischer.htm   (1321 words)

Colonial Scots-Irish Immigrants: The Irish Records Most of the Scots-Irish came freely to the American colonies, although there were also some who were deported as prisoners or came as indentured servants. This article focuses on sources and techniques in American records for tracing Scots-Irish immigrants who came to colonial America. For the purposes of this article, the term "Scots-Irish" refers to settlers who were born in or resided in Ireland but whose earlier origins (whether personal or ancestral) were in Scotland. www.electricscotland.com /history/america/scots_irish.htm   (632 words)

The Lowland Seed: 10/31/2004 - 11/06/2004 But please remember that no-one has been elected spokesman for the Scots-Irish Americans, that we don't agree on a goddamn thing, that some of us are card-carrying members of the ACLU, and that I'll gladly fight anyone who says otherwise. Therefore all Scots-Irish Americans hate liberals/Democrats/Northerners/The Irish/Jews/the Poor/You. Suffice to say that we come from Ireland but are more Scottish than Irish, and there are an estimated 30 million Americans who share the blood to some extent. lowlandseed.blogspot.com /2004_10_31_lowlandseed_archive.html   (1699 words)

American Presidents - Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums Conal Gillespie writes about the importance of the Scots-Irish vote in the recent American Presidential elections in this week’s Ulster-Scots column. Laike the Ulster Scots aa hame the Scotch Airish o' Amerikey hev cum tae ken mair o' thair ain tradeetions an heirskeip this wheen o' yeirs sine. A'hd alloo tha' hit wusnae bae chanst hoot the yeir wus the furst election i Amerikey o' modairn tims quhan fowk ettled tae leuk intil the notions o' the Scotch Airish es a curn o' fowk i thair ain richt. scotchirish.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=1945&view=getlastpost   (671 words)

James Gilliland , Native American Flute Maker I am Cherokee/Scots-Irish heritage,member of a State recognized Native American Tribe In Alabama. James has a River Cane Flute that was played on the Space Station in 2002 on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of The American Indian in Washington DC. James and C0-Author Henry Hermann have written a book called "The Art of Making River Cane and Bamboo Flutes" that is in the process of being published. hometown.aol.com /jgflutes/myhomepage/profile.html   (116 words)

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate. bartleby.com /cgi-bin/.../webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&query=Irish   (442 words)

storytelling_pr.html Roan draws tales from her own cultural background – Native American, Scots-Irish, Italian and French – and respectfully borrows from other cultures. Mime, puppetry, Irish drumming, improvisational acting and dialects are combined to perform folk and fairy tales, myths and current children’s literature. Pontiac, Michigan (March 1, 2006) – The Office of Arts, Culture and Film presents a lecture by Pat Roan Judd, Storyteller, on March 16, 2006, from noon to 1:00 p.m. www.co.oakland.mi.us /arts/news/storytelling_pr.html   (221 words)

CADwire.net - Directory > Society > Ethnicity > Celtic The Plantation of Ireland and the Scots-Irish - History of the lowland Scot settlement of Ulster and the subsequent immigration of Ulster Scots to the colonies, Ulster Scots Society of America - History of the Ulster-Scots in Ireland and America. Canadas Ulster Scots - History of the Ulster-Scots, genealogy and Ulster place names in Canada. cadwire.net /directory/dir.asp?/Society/Ethnicity/Celtic/Scots-Irish   (310 words)

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