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| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Northern Ireland | |
| Republic of Ireland | |
| United States |
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| Languages | |
| Ulster English, Ulster Irish, Ulster Scots, Scots Gaelic (small numbers historically) | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Presbyterian, some Church of Ireland and other Protestant denominations | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
The Ulster Scots people or Scots-Irish are an ethnic group[6][7][8][9] descended largely from Scottish and some Northern English Borders settlers who moved to the northern province of Ulster in Ireland mainly during the 17th century.[10][11][12] There is an Ulster Scots dialect of the Scots language.
Historically, there has been considerable population exchanges between Ireland and Scotland over the millennia. This group are found mostly in the province of Ulster, their ancestors were Protestant settlers who migrated from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England during the Plantation of Ulster, which was a planned process of colonisation following the Tudor conquest of Ireland.[13] The largest numbers came from Dumfries and Galloway, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Scottish Borders, Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Yorkshire and, to a lesser extent, from the Scottish Highlands.[14]
Ulster Scots people, displaced through hardship, emigrated in significant numbers around in the British Empire and especially to the American colonies, later Canada and the United States. In North America, they are sometimes called "Scotch-Irish", though this term is not used in the British Isles.
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- ^ "Census 2011: Key Statistics for Northern Ireland" (PDF). nisra.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
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- ^ "Selected Social Characteristics in the United States (DP02): 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ Webb, James (23 October 2004). "Secret GOP Weapon: The Scots Irish Vote". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 7 September 2008.
- ^ Hourican, Emily; Bain, Keith (27 April 2009). Pauline Frommer's Ireland. Wiley. ISBN 9780470502969 – via google.ie.
- ^ Kennouche, Sofiane. "The US presidents with the strongest Scottish roots". The Scotsman. JPIMedia.
While 33 US Presidents have had ancestral links to Scotland, many of these men have heritage that is classified as Ulster-Scots. This ethnic group has historically been found in the Ulster region of Ireland, and is so-called because of their own historical links to the lowlands of Scotland, where the group's ancestors originated.
- ^ McNeal, Michele. "The Scots-Irish Americans A Guide to Reference and Information Sources for Research" (PDF). ERIC Institute of Education Sciences.
The Scots-Irish coming from the towns and countryside of Ulster County, Ireland, constitute a religiously and culturally distinct population from the remainder of Catholic Ireland. ... The section of "Works devoted to Scots-Irish Americans" provides a wide variety of sources and approaches to the study of this ethnic group.
- ^ Kelly, Mary. "Kelly on Vann, 'In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: the Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People'". H-Albion Resources.
The emergence of an Ulster-Scots ethnicity within the broader transatlantic context is his primary focus, as per the headline of his title.
- ^ "Scots-Irish Definition & Meaning". yourdictionary.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ "Definition of Scotch-Irish". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ "Definition of Scotch-Irish". Merriam-Webster.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ Emerson, Newton (20 May 2004). "Ulster blood, English heart – I am what I am". Newshound. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ Fischer, David Hackett (1989). Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. "America: A Cultural History" series, vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 618.