Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America |  | Author: Charles Knowles Bolton
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Sales Rank: 48048
Format: Kindle eBook
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
ASIN: B003KVL64A
Publication Date: May 5, 2010
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Product Description
This historic volume was published in 1910.
A summary from the book's Preface:
The following pages attempt for the first time a systematic
treatment of the beginning of a migration of settlers of
Scotch and English descent from the north of Ireland to
the New World. Parker, Perry, Green, Hanna and other
writers have collected much of general history and tradition;
and they have so pictured the Scotch traits developed under
Irish skies, that Scotch Irish blood, once a reproach, is now
cause of pride. But the conditions in Ireland before the
migration, the voyage across the ocean, the emigrants
as they appeared to early observers these phases of the
story have now for the first time been treated in detail,
drawing upon hitherto unexplored sources. If a large part
of our Americna populatin traces back to Ulster, the early
religious, political and economic life of the valleys of the
Foyle and the Bann should interest many, for many, whether
they are aware of it or not, are descended from the Scotch
Irish. Clergymen and statesmen have from generation to
generation extolled the rugged virtues of these pioneers,
and a closer study of their lives will, it is hoped, deepen the
hold which they already have upon our affections.
There has been a constant temptation to include in this
study some account of emigrants from the west of Scotland;
they had very much in common with their Ulster friends and
kinsmen. But however desirable a wide scope may be, it
has been my purpose here to include only those who were
influenced by the peculiar environment of a life upon Irish
soil.
C. K. B.
POUND HILL PLACE,
SHIRLEY.
Product Description
This historic volume was published in 1910.
A summary from the book's Preface:
The following pages attempt for the first time a systematic
treatment of the beginning of a migration of settlers of
Scotch and English descent from the north of Ireland to
the New World. Parker, Perry, Green, Hanna and other
writers have collected much of general history and tradition;
and they have so pictured the Scotch traits developed under
Irish skies, that Scotch Irish blood, once a reproach, is now
cause of pride. But the conditions in Ireland before the
migration, the voyage across the ocean, the emigrants
as they appeared to early observers these phases of the
story have now for the first time been treated in detail,
drawing upon hitherto unexplored sources. If a large part
of our Americna populatin traces back to Ulster, the early
religious, political and economic life of the valleys of the
Foyle and the Bann should interest many, for many, whether
they are aware of it or not, are descended from the Scotch
Irish. Clergymen and statesmen have from generation to
generation extolled the rugged virtues of these pioneers,
and a closer study of their lives will, it is hoped, deepen the
hold which they already have upon our affections.
There has been a constant temptation to include in this
study some account of emigrants from the west of Scotland;
they had very much in common with their Ulster friends and
kinsmen. But however desirable a wide scope may be, it
has been my purpose here to include only those who were
influenced by the peculiar environment of a life upon Irish
soil.
C. K. B.
POUND HILL PLACE,
SHIRLEY.
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