Download or read book Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster And America written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by James G. Leyburn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Born Fighting written by Jim Webb and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. 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. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). 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. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
Download or read book A Varied People written by Judith Ridner and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scotch Irish in America written by Samuel Swett Green and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scotch Irish in America written by Henry Jones Ford and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1915 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of the Ulster Plantation and of the influences that formed the character of the Scotch-Irish people. The author commences with a detailed discussion of the events leading to the Scottish migration to Ulster in the seventeenth century, followed by an examination of the causes of the secondary exodus of these same "Scotch-Irish" to North America before the end of the century. Entire chapters are then devoted to the Scotch-Irish settlement in New England, New York, the Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and along the colonial frontier. Special chapters take up the role of the Scotch-Irish in the development of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the Scotch-Irish in the American Revolution, and the role of the Scotch-Irish in the spread of popular education in America.
Download or read book Ulster to America written by Warren R. Hofstra and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 trans-Atlantic continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas. In a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in response to many of the main themes defining American history. While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to various groups with their own agendas—including modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist Christians—this book, by clearing away long-standing but erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the historiographical construct of the Atlantic world. Organized in chronological and migratory order, this volume includes contributions on specific U.S. centers for Ulster immigrants: New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Ulster to America is essential reading for scholars and students of American history, immigration history, local history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story.
Download or read book Bulletin 1901 195 written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ulster to America written by Warren R. Hofstra and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 trans-Atlantic continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas. In a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in response to many of the main themes defining American history. While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to various groups with their own agendas—including modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist Christians—this book, by clearing away long-standing but erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the historiographical construct of the Atlantic world. Organized in chronological and migratory order, this volume includes contributions on specific U.S. centers for Ulster immigrants: New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Ulster to America is essential reading for scholars and students of American history, immigration history, local history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story.
Download or read book Ontario and Quebec s Irish Pioneers written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating — and thriving in — Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings an informative and lively account of this great saga.
Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The McCrays of America written by Philip Roger McCray and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The McCrays originated in Scotland. A number of them went to Ireland as part of the Ulster plantations. Descendants of these McCrays eventually immigrated to America where several large branches of the family were created. These were the Pennsylvania McCrays, Virginia McCrays and Tennessee McCrays. Descendants live throughout the United States and have married into numerous families in America.
Download or read book The Taylors the Scots Irish and the Settling of America written by MD Andrew T Taylor Jr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was approximately 1740 when Isaac Taylor and his wife, Isabella, stood on the deck of their small vessel, looking for the last time on Northern Ireland as it slipped slowly into the mist and ocean haze. They had committed their lives, their hopes, and the future of their 5 children to the wilderness of the New World. The Taylors, the Scots-Irish and the Settling of America begins with the historical background for Isaac's and Isabella's momentous decision. Opening with William the Conqueror's invasion of England and the hazy origins of the Taylors, the first chapter culminates in the succession of English monarchs, repeated wars, crop failures and religious persecutions that led Isaac and Isabella along with so many of their fellow Scots-Irish to abandon their native lands in Ulster and set sail for America. Most of the ships transporting Scots-Irish emigrants to the colonies sailed up the Delaware River to dock at Philadelphia. Looking for land, these new arrivals travelled the trails to the interior and fanned out along the frontier into Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas, pioneering the routes that subsequent waves of settlers were soon to follow. Isaac and Isabella followed the trail known as the Indian Road. Little more than a blazed trail, the Indian Road led west from Philadelphia to York where it crossed the Potomac and turned south into the heavily forested wilderness of the Shenandoah Valley. They purchased land in Virginia, cleared the forest, built a cabin, joined with scattered settlers to form a militia for self-defense and became charter members of the the Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church. Danger was a constant companion on the frontier and the Presbyterian religion that the settlers brought with them from Scotland and Ulster served as a bulwark against the uncertainties of life. One of the greatest threats facing isolated settlers was the ever present possibility of Indian attacks; close friends perished but Isaac and his family survived these skirmishes and the ensuing frontier conflict known in America as the French and Indian War. Their descendants surged westward across the Appalachians, fought the British in the Battle of King's Mountain, helped establish the short lived State of Franklin, and marched in 1814 with Andrew Jackson to New Orleans. Subsequent generations continued westward, settling Central and West Tennessee and subsequent generations also faced the bitter, bloody, and divisive turmoil of the Civil War. The history of the Taylors follows a line of male descent, and is amplified by vignettes of related branches of the family to provide a broader perspective into life on the frontier, the drive for independence, westward migration across the Appalachians, Tennessee politics and the Civil War. Vignettes are enhanced with quotes, newspaper articles, wills, and letters. The final chapter relates the childhood, early political life and World War II recollections of Judge Andrew T. Taylor, the author's father. These recollections include vignettes of his family, adolescence, early political life and his deployment in World War II to join the British 8th Army fighting Rommel in North Africa. Pioneers, farmers, freethinkers, land speculators, preachers, iconoclasts, soldiers, politicians, lawyers, judges and physicians, the Taylors represent only a single family but their stories encapsulate the stories of thousands and provide a window into the lives and generations of tens of thousands of Scots-Irish who emigrated from Northern Ireland to America between 1717 and 1770. Such stories bring the past into focus and connect us to our historical and cultural roots; in the process, these stories serve as a bridge to future generations and, for some, provide an anchor for the present. The color version of the book includes larger maps, color images and is printed on higher quality paper than the non-color version
Download or read book English Historical Documents American Colonial Documents to 1776 written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan written by Kerby A. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Download or read book Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City 1770 1870 written by Kay Retzlaff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers required distinctive ways of performing Irishness. Class, status, and gender were more significant than ethnicity. Close reading of diaries, newspapers, local histories, and public papers allows for nuanced understanding of immigrant lives amid stereotype and the nineteenth century evolution of a Scotch-Irish identity.
