The Ulster American Connection
Author | : John W. Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John W. Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David N. Livingstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This work offers an observation on the history of the cultural connections between Ulster and America for students of history, theology, politics, sociology and Irish studies.
Author | : Warren R. Hofstra |
Publisher | : Univ Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781572337541 |
In Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680–1830, editor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the history of the Scots-Irish. In addition to presenting fresh information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish experience in the United States. In place of implacable Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness and isolation, the authors point to the trans-Atlantic continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas. In a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in response to many of the main themes defining American history. While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to various groups with their own agendas—including modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist Christians—this book, by clearing away long-standing but erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the historiographical construct of the Atlantic world. Organized in chronological and migratory order, this volume includes contributions on specific U.S. centers for Ulster immigrants: New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Ulster to America is essential reading for scholars and students of American history, immigration history, local history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story.
Author | : Francis M. Carroll |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813214203 |
Alex Voorman, a cerebral thirty-year-old archaeologist, is married to the woman of his dreams -- a beautiful, ambitious botanist named Isabel. When Isabel is killed by a reckless driver, Alex reluctantly consents to donate her heart. Janet Corcoran, a young, headstrong mother of two and an art teacher at an inner-city school in Chicago, is sick with heart disease. She is on the waiting list for a transplant, but her chances are slim. She watches the Weather Channel, secretly praying for foul weather and car accidents. The day Isabel dies, Janet gets her wish. Flash forward a year. Janet sends Alex a letter. She'd like to learn something about the woman who saved her life. But Alex isn't interested in talking to the recipient of his dead wife's heart. Since Isabel's accident, he's still grief-stricken. Meanwhile, a local blues musician named Jasper, the man responsible for Isabel's death, attempts to atone for his misdeed. Irreplaceable is the story of what happens after the transplant -- not only to Alex but within the concentric circles of family that spiral outward from him and from Janet. Stephen Lovely takes us vividly inside the lives of these characters to reveal their true intentions -- however misguided -- and gives us a stunning debut novel of loss and love.
Author | : Jack Holland |
Publisher | : Roberts Rinehart Publishers |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Belfast-born Jack Holland believes that the Troubles in Northern Ireland of the last 30 years cannot be truly understood without taking into account the influence of Irish America. This book traces the American connection from the 19th century onwards.
Author | : Patrick Griffin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2012-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400842891 |
More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people--whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as ''a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish''--drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt to staggering religious, economic, and cultural change. In remarkably crisp, lucid prose, Patrick Griffin uncovers the ways in which migrants from Ulster--and thousands like them--forged new identities and how they conceived the wider transatlantic community. The book moves from a vivid depiction of Ulster and its Presbyterian community in and after the Glorious Revolution to a brilliant account of religion and identity in early modern Ireland. Griffin then deftly weaves together religion and economics in the origins of the transatlantic migration, and examines how this traumatic and enlivening experience shaped patterns of settlement and adaptation in colonial America. In the American side of his story, he breaks new critical ground for our understanding of colonial identity formation and of the place of the frontier in a larger empire. The People with No Name will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in transatlantic history, American Colonial history, and the history of Irish and British migration.
Author | : E. Kennedy-Andrews |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-08-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137330392 |
Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity.
Author | : Ronnie Hanna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Scots-Irish |
ISBN | : 9781872076119 |
"This book traces the story of the Ulster emigrants and the Ulster- American people, which they became, between the years 1717 to 1782. It is a story of hardship and adventure but, most importantly, a story of the fight for human liberty. America's revolution owed much to its Ulster heritage and the 300,000 people who left this land [Ireland] for the New world in the eighteenth century." --Back cover.
Author | : Michael Montgomery |
Publisher | : Ulster Historical Foundation |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781903688618 |
From Ulster to America documents nearly four hundred terms and meanings-- each with quotations from both sides of the Atlantic--contributed to American English by these eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster. Drawing on letters they sent back to their homeland and on other archival documents associated with their settlement, it shows that Ulster emigrants and their children contributed as much to regional American English as any other group. The numerous quotations bring alive the speech of earlier days on both sides of the Atlantic, and extend understanding of the culture, mannerisms, and life of those pioneering times.
Author | : Tyler Blethen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the US examine the dynamic nature of Ulster in the 17th and 18th centuries, the experience of migration, the development of economic strategies and community building in both Ulster and North America, and ethnic identity and cultural diffusion. The 11 essays were selected from biennial meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium since 1976. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR