Scots-Irish or Scotch-Irish or Ulster Scots

The Appalachians: The Scotch-Irish

Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish Pt.1

Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish Pt.2

This Northern Ireland documentary follows American Senator Jim Webb, author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, as he charts the incredible story of the Scots-Irish, and discovers how they helped build one of the most powerful nations in the world.

Born Fighting sees Senator Webb, himself of Scots-Irish heritage, travel from his home in the United States to Scotland and Northern Ireland, where he visits Belfast, Carrickfergus, Newtownstewart and Londonderry, to tell the story of the Scots-Irish and how they shaped present day America.

Dramatic reconstructions take viewers through key historical moments such as Bannockburn, the siege of Derry and the American Civil War, and we hear from leading historians such as Dr. Patrick Fitzgerald from the Centre for Migration Studies in Omagh.

"For the first time ever, this series has captured all three elements of this historic journey, from Scotland to the north of Ireland and finally into America, in a way that shows both the struggles of the Scots-Irish and their incredible impact on American culture and government.

"I wrote Born Fighting after many years of thought and painstaking research," noted Senator Webb. "It is a pleasure to have been able to work with UTV, STV and the Smithsonian Chanel, to bring the essence of this book into a powerful visual format."

• The Scotch-Irish in History
  By Rev. James Shaw D. D. 1899
• Colonial Scots-Irish Immigrants: The Irish Records
• The Scots-Irish: The Thirteenth Tribe
  By Raymond Campbell Paterson
• Scotch-Irish in New England
  By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
• The Ulster-Scots Society of America
  Information on the Society and a collection of articles.
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  By John Walker Dinsmore (1906)
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the First Scotch-Irish Congress in Columbia, Tennessee May 8-11, 1889.
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Second Congress at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania May 29 to June 1, 1890.
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Third Congress at Louisville, Kentucky May 14 to 17, 1891
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Fourth Congress at Atlanta, GA., April 28 to May 1, 1892
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Fifth Congress at Columbia, Tennessee
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Sixth Congress at Des Moines, Iowa
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Seventh Congress at Lexington, Virginia
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Eighth Congress at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Ninth Congress at Knoxville, Tennessee
• The Scotch-Irish in America
  Proceedings of the Tenth Congress at Ohambersburg, Pennsylvania
• The History of Ulster
  From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ramsay Colles in 4 volumes (1919)
• The Scotch Settlers in Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland
  A Contribution to Pennsylvania Genealogy by William M. Mervine (pdf)
• The Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania
• The Bold Tartan Men of Ulster
  A novel by James Gray
• Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman
  By W. W. Caldwell
• Rambles in Europe
  In Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Switzeriand, and France, with Historical Facts relating to Scotch-American Families gathered in Scotland and the North of Ireland by Leonard A. Morrison
• Brown
  Alexander Brown and his Descendants 1764-1916 and A Hundred Years of Merchant Banking.
• Richard McNemara
  His life and an account of Shakerism and the Kentucky Revival
• The Scotch-Irish and their first Settlements on the Tyger River
  And other Neighbouring Precincts in South Carolina. A Centenial Discourse delivered atr Nazareth Church, Spartanburg District, S.C. by George Howe, D.D. (1861)
• The Irish Scots and the "Scotch-Irish"
  An historical and ethnological monograph with some reference to Scotia Major and Scotia Minor to which is added a chapter on "How the Irish came as builders of the Nation" by the Hon. John C. Linehan (1902) (pdf)
• Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America
  By Charles Knowles Bolton (1910) (pdf)