They tamed the American South, pitching fearlessly for independence and the creation of a nation that was to become foremost in the world. Published by Ambassador Publications South Carolina The Other Irish by Karen F. McCarthy is available from the following websites: Amazon, Waterstones and iTunes. You are commenting using your WordPress.
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Our most priceless heritage: The history of the United States is interwoven with outstanding personalities from the Scots-Irish diaspora and the distinctive characteristics of a people who pushed the frontiers to new horizons. This comprehensive study of the Scots-Irish in America by Northern Ireland author Billy Kennedy has created a much greater awareness of the accomplishments and the durability of the hardy settlers and their families who moved to the New World during the 18th century and created a civilization out of a wilderness.
This is Billy Kennedy's ninth book on the Scots Irish. The making of America: They sailed from Londonderry: The emigrant trail to the American colonies and the United States after the Declaration of Independence of manifested itself in large numbers from the latter part of the 17th century and through the 18th century.
Ulster-Scots Presbyterians were in the vanguard of this momentous movement across the Atlantic and, with heroism being a distinct characteristic of this hardy strong-willed people, they settled the vast expanse of the American frontier and unrelentingly created a civilisation out of a wilderness.
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Belfast may have been the main port for 18th century voyages to America, but the Londonderry exodus was highly significant in that a huge stream of folk moved from a wide area of Ulster-Londonderry city and county, Donegal, north and west Tyrone and north Antrim. In the 'New World', these dissenting people, whose origins were in Scotland, prospered, with their kin becoming US presidents, statesmen, churchmen, soldiers and luminaries in other various stratas of American public life.
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Found at these bookshops Searching - please wait How the Scots Made America. Would you like us to take another look at this review? You are commenting using your Twitter account. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: They were a gallant and fearless trio of men, hewn from the same genealogical and cultural stick that was rooted back across the Atlantic Ocean in lowland Scotland and in north-east Ireland the province of Ulster a century and more before they were born as first American citizens in what was then the outer ring of the Western frontier.
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