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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History | James G. Leyburn

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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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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History | James G. Leyburn

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A great account of a disputed, confusingly named 18th c, immigrant wave from Ireland (by way of 17th c. Scotland). I read this alongside the more recent “The People of No Name“ by P. Griffin and the more recent again “Race, Politics and Irish America“ by M. Burke to get a balanced picture of a group about which far too much twaddle's been written! Start with this though as Leyburn is from 1962 so is cited by books on the topic that come after

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