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.
Author: James G. Leyburn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 08/30/1989
Pages: 377
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780807842591
Language: English
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