The Scotch-Irish

Book info: The Scotch-Irish (Paperback, 377 pages – Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1989) – Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1989. Language: Eng.

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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.