Scotch-Irish Americans Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Further reading== * {{cite book|last=Bageant|first=Joseph L.|author-link=Joe Bageant|title=Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War|isbn=978-1-921215-78-0|publisher=[[Broadway Books]]|year=2007|title-link=Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War}} Cultural discussion and commentary of Scots-Irish descendants in the US. * {{cite book|editor-last1=Bailyn|editor-first1=Bernard|editor1-link=Bernard Bailyn|editor-last2=Morgan|editor-first2=Philip D.|editor2-link=Philip D. Morgan|title=Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire|year=2012|publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]]}} Scholars analyze colonial migrations. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TKXqCQAAQBAJ&dq=Strangers+Within+the+Realm&pg=PP1 online] * Baxter, Nancy M. ''Movers: A Saga of the Scotch-Irish (The Heartland Chronicles)'' (1986; {{ISBN|0-9617367-1-2}}) Novelistic. * Blethen, Tyler. ed. ''Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish'' (1997; {{ISBN|0-8173-0823-7}}), scholarly essays. * {{cite book|author1=Byrne, James Patrick |author2=Philip Coleman|author3=Jason Francis King|title=Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agfvVQnBu9MC&pg=PA837|year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781851096145}} * {{cite journal|last=Carroll|first=Michael P.|title=How the Irish Became Protestant in America|journal=[[Religion and American Culture]]|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|date=Winter 2006|volume=16|issue=1|pages=25β54|doi=10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25|jstor=10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25|s2cid=145240474}} * {{cite book|last=Carroll|first=Michael P.|title=American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|year=2007|pages=1β26}} * Chepesiuk, Ron. ''The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America'' ({{ISBN|0-7864-0614-3}}) * Drymon, M. M.''Scotch-Irish Foodways in America''(2009;{{ISBN|978-1-4495-8842-7}}) * Dunaway, Wayland F. ''The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania'' (1944; reprinted 1997; {{ISBN|0-8063-0850-8}}), solid older scholarly history. * {{cite book|last=Dunbar-Ortiz|first=Roxanne|author-link=Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz|title=Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie|year=2006|isbn=978-0-8061-3775-9|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|url=https://archive.org/details/reddirtgrowingup00dunb_0}} Literary/historical family memoir of Scotch-Irish Missouri/Oklahoma family. * Esbenshade, Richard. "Scotch-Irish Americans." in ''Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America'', edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 4, Gale, 2014), pp. 87β100. [https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3273300156/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=27347afb Online free] * {{cite book|last=Fischer|first=David Hackett|author-link=David Hackett Fischer|title=Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America|isbn=978-0-19-506905-1|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1989|title-link=Albion's Seed}} Major scholarly study tracing colonial roots of four groups of immigrants, Irish, English Puritans, English Cavaliers, and Quakers; see pp. 605β778. * Glasgow, Maude. ''The Scotch-Irish in Northern Ireland and in the American Colonies'' (1998; {{ISBN|0-7884-0945-X}}) * Glazier, Michael, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,'' (1999), the best place to startβthe most authoritative source, with essays by over 200 experts, covering both Catholic and Protestants. * Griffin, Patrick. ''The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World: 1689-1764'' (2001; {{ISBN|0-691-07462-3}}) solid academic monograph. *Hammock, Stephen A. ''Emigrants, Sails, and Scholars: A Comprehensive Review of Scots-Irish Historiography'', Scots Press. (2013, {{ISBN|978-1-55932-318-5}}). * Johnson, James E. ''Scots and Scotch-Irish in America'' (1985, {{ISBN|0-8225-1022-7}}) short overview for middle schools * {{cite news|last=Joseph|first=Cameron|title=The Scots-Irish Vote|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/the-scots-irish-vote/27853/|date=October 6, 2009|access-date=October 19, 2018}} * Jones, Maldwyn A. "Scotch-Irish." ''Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups'' (1980): 895β908. [https://archive.org/details/harvardencyclope0000unse_z1f1 online] * Keller, Kenneth W. "The Origins of Ulster Scots Emigration to America: A Survey of Recent Research." ''American Presbyterians'' 70.2 (1992): 71β80. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23332623 online] * Kennedy, Billy. ''Faith & Freedom: The Scots-Irish in America'' (1999; {{ISBN|1-84030-061-2}}) Short, popular chronicle; he has several similar books on geographical regions * Kennedy, Billy. ''The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas'' (1997; {{ISBN|1-84030-011-6}}) * Kennedy, Billy. ''The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley'' (1996; {{ISBN|1-898787-79-4}}) * Lewis, Thomas A. ''West From Shenandoah: A Scotch-Irish Family Fights for America, 1729β1781, A Journal of Discovery'' (2003; {{ISBN|0-471-31578-8}}) * Leyburn, James G. ''Scotch-Irish: A Social History'' (1999; {{ISBN|0-8078-4259-1}}) written by academic but out of touch with scholarly literature after 1940 * {{cite news|last=Leyburn|first=James G.|title=The Scotch-Irish|work=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]]|volume=22|issue=1|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/content/scotch-irish|date=December 1970|access-date=October 19, 2018}} * {{cite journal|last1=McDonald|first1=Forrest|author-link1=Forrest McDonald|last2=McWhiney|first2=Grady|author-link2=Grady McWhiney|title=The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation|journal=[[Journal of Southern History]]|volume=41|issue=2|date=May 1975|pages=147β66|doi=10.2307/2206011|jstor=2206011}} Highly influential economic interpretation; online at JSTOR through most academic libraries. Their Celtic interpretation says Scots-Irish resembled all other Celtic groups; they were warlike herders (as opposed to peaceful farmers in England), and brought this tradition to America. James Webb has popularized this thesis. * {{cite book|last1=McWhiney|first1=Grady|first2=Perry D.|last2=Jamieson|author-link1=Grady McWhiney|title=Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage|publisher=[[University of Alabama Press]]|isbn=978-0817302290|year=1984}} * {{cite book|last=McWhiney|first=Grady|author-link=Grady McWhiney|title=Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South|year=1989|isbn=978-0817304584|publisher=[[University of Alabama Press]]}} Major exploration of cultural folkways. * Meagher, Timothy J. ''The Columbia Guide to Irish American History.'' (2005), overview and bibliographies; includes the Catholics. * {{cite book|editor-last=Miller|editor-first=Kerby|editor-link=Kerby A. Miller|title=Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America|publisher=[[Chronicle Books]]|isbn=978-0811827836|year=2001}} Major source of primary documents. * {{cite book|last=Miller|first=Kerby|author-link=Kerby A. Miller|title=Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0195051872|year=1988|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/emigrantsexiles00kerb_0}} Highly influential study. * Porter, Lorle. ''A People Set Apart: The Scotch-Irish in Eastern Ohio'' (1999; {{ISBN|1-887932-75-5}}) highly detailed chronicle. * Quinlan, Kieran. ''Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South'' (2004), critical analysis of Celtic thesis. * Sherling, Rankin. ''The Invisible Irish: Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America'' (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2015). * Sletcher, Michael, "Scotch-Irish", in Stanley I. Kutler, ed., ''Dictionary of American History'', (10 vols., New York, 2002).0 * {{cite book|last=Vann|first=Barry|author-link=Barry A. Vann|title=In Search of Ulster Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People|publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]]|year=2008|isbn=978-1-57003-708-5}} * {{cite book|last=Vann|first=Barry|author-link=Barry A. Vann|title=Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage|publisher=Overmountain Press|year=2004|isbn=978-1-57072-269-1}} * {{cite journal|last=Vann|first=Barry|author-link=Barry A. Vann|year=2007|title=Irish protestants and the creation of the Bible belt|journal=[[Journal of Transatlantic Studies]]|publisher=[[Routledge]]|volume=5|issue=1|pages=87β106|doi=10.1080/14794010708656856|s2cid=143386272}} * {{cite book|last=Webb|first=James|author-link=Jim Webb|title=Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America|publisher=[[Broadway Books]]|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7679-1688-2|title-link=Born Fighting}} Novelistic approach; special attention to his people's war with English in America. ** [[Rowland Berthoff|Berthoff, Rowland]]. "Celtic Mist over the South", ''Journal of Southern History'' 52 (1986): 523β46 is a strong attack; rejoinder on 547β50 Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page