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Migration in Northern Ireland, like the whole
island itself, has been primarily in one direction - emigration.
The topic is a huge one - 70 million people on earth could claim to have
Irish or Scots Irish roots, which is amazing since the current population
on the island is only around 5 million. Take a tour through the articles
below for a flavour of how migration has affected Ulster, with the Scots
in particular, having a pivotal role in its history. |
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| Planters, chiefs and
hollowed cheese |
17th Century Scotland was no place for faint hearts - with witch-hunts,
firebrand preachers and border warriors. Many sought refuge in Ireland during
the official Plantation of Ulster in 1610. However populating Ulster with
hand picked Scots was already second nature to a canny trio who even broke
out of a dungeon to further their empire.
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| Irish Stew |
The Presbyterian Scots arrived in Ulster in the early 1600s and made their
home on lands confiscated from the native Catholic Irish. The Scots vison
of an 'Eden' in Ireland soon evaporatd when rebellion, drought and war added
to this already, volatile combination of creeds. The final straw was the
introduction of the Penal Laws, attacking their religious freedom - the
Ulster Scots were ready for a new dream.
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| Hillbillies in the White
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From the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, via a tempestuous time in
Ireland, the Scots Irish took the 'New World' by storm. These frontiersmen
of the Appalachian mountains and beyond, spawned a people of character
and guile, who influenced almost every facet of the Unites States of America.
Presidents, soldiers, statesmen …and Dolly Parton?
The diary of James
Black
With the help of the migration
studies centre at the Ulster American Folk Park, at Omagh, Co. Tyrone,
UK Legacies has edited the diary of a James Black, a cotton mill owner
from Co.Antrim, and merchant of South Carolina.
His diary, dating from 1837, gives a very personal view of life in 19th
Century America, from someone with firm roots in Ulster.
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The unfertile plains of southern Italy brought 19th Century immigrants
to Northern Ireland. Fish suppers and ice cream became the staple diet
of generations of Irish ever since. But
the immigrants also brought skilled craftsmen, who produced exquisite
terrazzo and marble work in many of Belfast's buildings. Also, can you
guess the persona of the famous Italian with a link to Northern Ireland
who made waves in Ballycastle?
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