The Scotch Irish

Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

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UPC:
9780807808436
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
1962-12-21
Author:
J G Leyburn
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition
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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.