I recently found out my heritage is Scottish. Many people (friends, not relatives) are saying I am Scotts-Irish. Does "Scottish" = "Scotts-Irish"? Or are they separate/different things?
2007-09-08 06:01:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
James G. Leyburn, author of The Scotch Irish: A Social History, defines the term "Scotch-Irish" as "an Americanism, generally unknown in Scotland and Ireland, and rarely used by British historians. In American usage, it refers to Lowland Scots who, having lived for a time in the north of Ireland, migrated in considerable numbers to the American colonies in the eighteenth century" (xiii). British historians refer to the "Ulster Scots" instead.
Usually, the ancestors of the Scotch Irish (or the Ulster Scots) emigrated from Scotland to Ulster during the reigns of James I and Charles I both for economic opportunity and the freedom to practice their Presbyterian faith without any interference. Most Scotch-Irish unlike the majority of their Scots cousins vigorously supported the American Revolution.
By the time the Roman Catholic Irish emigrated from Ireland in the 1840s, this group, which came to American around 1750, came up with the term "Scotch-Irish" to differentiate themselves from the native Irish. Before that time, the Scotch-Irish also referred to themselves as Irish.
Confused? Incidentally, the Scotch-Irish don't have anything to do with kilts and Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland, nor do they wear green on Saint Patrick's Day*.
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*They would wear orange as supporters of William III of Orange.
2007-09-08 09:22:09 · answer #1 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lots of Scottish people have an Irish connection (for example if I went back a few geenrations i'm sure I could dig up a few Irish ancestors), but I call myself Scottish, not Scots-Irish. I was born in Scotland & will die here. I don't have immediate plans or feel any deep urge to visit Ireland now or in the near future. This Scots-Irish thing seems to be more an American way of thinking.
2007-09-09 09:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by Jock 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The so-called Scotch Irish are the Ulster Protestants. They were settled in Ireland by James I. When they came to the U.S. they identified themselves as Scotch Irish which said they were Scottish by race but their geograhical origin was Ireland. They are not necessarily part Scottish and Irish. Due to religious differences they did not assimilate very much with the native Irish.
2007-09-08 14:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scott-Irish might mean Scottish and Irish. I'm Scottish and Austrian.
2007-09-08 06:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by LINDSEY S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Scotts-Irish is a combination of being Scottish and Irish
2007-09-08 06:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by KD7ONE 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Two different peoples. The Scots are from Scotland...Scot-Irish are Scottish and Irish...many immigrants from both countries came to America, and a great many of them ended up in the Appalachias. Scot-Irish are the children of these mixed immigrants.
2007-09-08 06:10:56 · answer #6 · answered by Blue Oyster Kel 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Scotch-Irish is the term used to describe Scotts whom moved to Ireland to try to weaken the Irish. The English were the ones behind the whole deal as both them and the Scots are Protestants and the Irish are Catholics.
2007-09-08 06:05:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
i think theyre separate. because im british/scottish/irish and my grandpa used to ramble on about how the scottish were separate from the irish. idk, i never really listened to his stories, but i dnt think theyre the same.
2007-09-09 06:24:21 · answer #8 · answered by ellebelle7895 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious?
Scotland and Ireland are two different countries. You would be Scottish-Irish if you had parentage from both countries.
2007-09-08 06:15:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋