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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
Resource ID: 4048
Type: non-fiction, book
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- history, populations, culture
- history, culture
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n/a
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date:
8.30.1989
ISBN:
9780807842591
pages:
377
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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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