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Ulster-Scots & Irish Unionist Resource. A website discussing and promoting Ulster-Scots / Scotch-Irish history, culture and heritage. Scottish Rednecks and Hillbillies
1981 Adamson Identity of Ulster 44 Although the Scotch-Irish were merging quickly now into the American Nation, the Ulster speech itself was to stay alive in the hill-country of Appalachia and beyond, where Scotch-Irish traditional music may still be heard.
While most people are familiar with the words, many aren’t aware of their interesting origins, and how it relates to the history of the Scots Irish Presbyterians that settled in America.
6 lis 2012 · The same old political bargain was made between the governing establishment and working class Ulster Scots in Ireland (and later Northern Ireland) as was struck in the early US (and later, again, in the Jim Crow South).
24 paź 2018 · It has been estimated that some 27 million Americans are of Anglo-Scottish descent by way of Ireland’s Ulster Province, a people known as the Ulster-Scots in the United Kingdom, and the Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish, in the United States, making it one of the largest ethnic groups in the country.
17 wrz 2021 · An estimated 200,000 Ulster Scots (aka Scotch-Irish) emigrated to the American colonies between 1717 and 1775. Settling up and down the East coast and throughout Appalachia, these Scottish protestants brought with them their religion, their rebelliousness, as well as their nicknames.
While the following three terms are associated today with the American South and southern culture, their origins are distinctly Scottish and Ulster-Scottish (Scots-Irish), and date to the mass immigration of Scottish Lowland and Ulster Presbyterians to America during the 1700’s.
