Dear All Not long ago there was an query on the list about books on the Scotch-Irish. Inasmuch as I had recently compiled and annotated a list of works on Ulster-American conncections for another purpose, I am This list contains about 35 titles, published in either the U.S. or the U.K. It is by no means exhaustive, including as it does only those items I have been able to examine and annotate. Not all of them are still in print, either. But this should give folks a good basic reading list and perhaps contain an item or two that will be new to just about anybody. (I've been collecting such material since first going to Northern Ireland years ago.) It does not include works that concern only Ulster-Scottish connections, which is another topic altogether. Feel free to circulate or post this list further. Regards to all Michael Montgomery Columbia, South Carolina Ulster-American Connections: A Select Annotated List of Books and Booklets Compiled by Michael Montgomery Note: The following list includes only publications that have been personally examined by the compiler for the purpose of annotation and that are either in print or may be found through second-hand book dealers. Numerous other titles dealing with the genealogy of specific families may be found by searching the website of the Library of Congress at <www.loc.gov>. Items Published in the United States: Blethen, Tyler, and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. 1997. Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press. xii + 283 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 8173 8023 7)2; also published in paperback) A selection of academic papers, mainly on historical topics, given at Ulster-American Heritage Symposia. Blethen, Tyler, and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. 1998. Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. xii + 71 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 86526 279 9) Well-illustrated account of migration of Lowland Scots to Ulster and their descendants subsequently to Pennsylvania, Virginia, and western North Carolina. Bolton, Charles Knowles. 1910. Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America. Reprinted in 1986 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. x + 398 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 8063 0046 9) The most detailed account of early migration to New England in the 1710s. Brownstein, Robin, and Peter Guttmacher. 1988. The Scotch Irish Americans. New York: Chelsea House. 111 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 87754 875 7; paperback, 0 7910 0277 2) A thoroughly illustrated account, designed for adolescents. Chalkley, Lyman. 1912. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800. Three Volumes. 2000 pp. Reprinted in 1999 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. (hardback, ISBN 0 8063 00698). Includes county court judgments, original papers on suits, court petitions, circuit and district court records, marriage bonds, land entries, guardians' bonds, administrators' bonds, tax delinquents, proceedings of the Vestry of Augusta Parish, and records of military service in colonial wars and the Revolution, and wills. Chepesiuk, Ronald. 2000. The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. (hardback ISBN 07864 06143) Traces migration from Scotland to Ulster and then to America, emphasizing character and contributions of Scotch-Irish to American culture. Ford, Henry Jones. 1915. The Scotch-Irish in America. Reprinted in 2000 by the Clearfield Company, Baltimore. viii + 607 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 8063 4523 3) A standard history tracing from Scotland to Ulster to colonial America, emphasizing religious, political, and educational contributions. Griffin, Patrick. 1999. The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. xviii + 244 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 6910 74615; paperback, ISBN 0 6910 74623) Ground-breaking study discusses Ulster emigration to America within the perspective of the development of the British Empire. Hanna, Charles A. 1902. The Scotch=Irish or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America. 2 volumes. New York: Putnam. Reprinted in 2005 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. 623 + 602 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 8063 01686) Most comprehensive account of the Scotch-Irish and their origins, emphasizing notable individuals and including many documents. Jackson, Carlton. 1993. A Social History of the Scotch-Irish. University Press of America. Lanham, N.Y.: Madison. xviii + 203 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 8191 8071 8) Traces migration from Scotland to Ulster and then to America, emphasizing character and contributions of Scotch-Irish to American culture. Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies. 2000-2004. Scholarly journal devoted to Ulster-American relations and connections. Available from Center for Scotch-Irish Studies, PO Box 71, Glenoldyn PA 19036-0071. Lewis, Thomas A. 2004. West from Shenandoah; a Scotch-Irish Family fights for America 1729-1781 New York: Wiley and Sons. 272 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 4713 15788) Chronicles the early settlement of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, which the author calles "the first frontier," and the role of the author's ancestors in this process. Leyburn, George C. 1962. The Scotch-Irish in America: A Social History. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. (hardback, ISBN 0 8078 8043 1; also published in paperback) Remains the recognized standard and most cited work in the field, devoting one-third of its treatment each to Scotland, Ulster, and America; this is an original and academic, but accessible volume. Linehan, John C. 1902. The Irish Scots and the "Scotch-Irish": A Historical and Ethnological Monograph. Concord, N.H.: American-Irish Historical Society. 138 pp. Reprinted in 2005 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. (paperback, ISBN 080635139X) Emphasizes that Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and Irish Catholics and more on their cultural commonalities in literature, traditions, and otherwise. Miller, Kerby A. 1985. Emigrants in Exile: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press. xiv + 684 pp. (hardback ISBN 0-19-503594-1, paperback ISBN 0-19-505184-4) Seminal work using emigrant letters to document and interpret emigration from Ireland to North America. Miller, Kerby, Bruce D. Boling, David N. Doyle, and Arnold Schrier, eds. 2003. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press. (hardback, ISBN 0 1950 45130; paperback, ISBN 0 1951 54894) A massive, scrupulously edited case studies of early emigrants from Ireland (most from Ulster), based on letters, petitions, and other documents from commoners and organized around major themes in social and economic history. Stephenson, Jean. 1917. Scotch-Irish migration to South Carolina, 1772. (Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers). ▌Washington, D.C.� Reprinted in 2004 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. 137 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 8063 48321) Chronicles arrival in Charleston of settlers under leadership of Covenanter minister William Martin and their settlement in South Carolina. Weaver, Jack W, ed. 1981. Select Proceedings of the Scotch-Heritage Festival at Winthrop College. 107 pp. Volume 2 (1984), 115 pp. (available from the editor at 144 Brookwood Drive, Rock Hill, SC 29722) Papers from two public conferences on the Scotch=Irish held at Winthrop College, South Carolina, dealing with a wide variety of subject. Webb, James. 2004. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. New York: Broadway Books. (hardback, ISBN 0 7679 1688 3) Traces the Scotch-Irish from the Scottish and Ulster forebears, focusing in particular on their reputation as warriors and defenders of personal freedom and opposition to aristrocracy and crediting them with fundamental views on which the United States has developed. Wokeck, Marianne. 1999. Trade in Strangers: The Beginning of Mass Migration to North America. College Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. Assesses the volume, character, and motivations for Ulster emigration to America. Items Published in the British Isles: Blake, J. W., ed. 1976. The Ulster American Connection: A Series of Lectures Delivered in the Autumn of 1976. Coleraine: New University of Ulster. 58 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 901299 31 8) Four lectures on Ulster-American connections delivered to mark the American bi-centennial. Cromie, Howard. 1984. Ulster Settlers in America. Belfast: Irish Mission Publications. 67 pp. (paperback, ISBN not available) Popular treatment of the contribution of Ulster emigrants to American colonial society, especially in the development of Presbyterianism. Dickson, R. J. 1987. Ulster Migraton to Colonial America. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. xxiv + 320 pp. (paperback, ISBN 901 905 17 8) An academic work combining detailed investigation of the economic, social and political background of Ulster emigration with information on trade and an analysis of the motivations and origins of the emigrants themselves. Doyle, David N. 1982. Ireland, Irishmen and Revolutionary America 1760-1820. Dublin: Mercier. xix + 257 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 85342 590 6) Ground-breaking study of 18th-century emigration to America, focusing in particular on participation of emigrants from Ulster and elsewhere in Ireland on the struggle for American independence. Fitzpatrick, Rory. 1989. God's Frontiersmen: The Scots-Irish Epic. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. viii + 296 pp. (hardback, ISBN 0 297 79435 3) Well-illustrated companion volume to Ulster Television/Channel 4 series chronicling migration of Ulster settlers to America and elsewhere, drawing extensively on letters and other documents. Green, E. R. R., ed. 1992. Essays in Scotch-Irish History. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. (paperback, ISBN 0 901 905 53 4) Hanna, Ronnie. 1992. Land of the Free: Ulster and the American Revolution. Belfast: Ulster Society. xii + 115 pp. (paperback, ISBN 1 872076 11 4) Chronicles Ulster emigration to America in the 18th century and participation by Ulster emigrants in the American Revolution. Hanna, Ronnie. 1996. The Highest Call: Ulster and the American Presidency. Belfast: Ulster Society. viii + 64 pp. (paperback, ISBN 1 872076 25 4) Collection of short, popular biographies of American Presidents who had Ulster emigrant ancestors; each accounts identifies the emigrant, locates each emigrant, describes the community from which he or they left, and idenfities whether an ancestral homesite has been identified and maintained. Kennedy, Billy. 1995. The Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee. Belfast: Ambassador, copublished in Greenville, South Carolina, by Emerald Press. (paperback, ISBN 1 898787 46 8) (the author has a number of subsequent titles with similar content on Ulster emigrants to the U.S., including The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley, The Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas, and Women of the Frontier) Marshall, W. F. 1943. Ulster Sails West: The Story of the Great Emigration from Ulster to North America in the 18th Century, Together with an Outline of the Part Played by Ulstermen in Building the United State. Belfast. Reprinted in 1984 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. 80 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 8063 0754 4) First account published in Northern Ireland of "Ulster's mark on America," emphasizing contributions of Ulster emigrants to colonial and Revolutionary America. Montgomery, Eric. 1965. Ulster and the Scotch-Irish. Belfast: Ulster-Scot Historical Society, 32 pp. Outlines purposes of the Ulster-Scot Historical Society and promoting historical and genealogical research on Scotch-Irish emigrants to America. Montgomery, Michael, and Anne Smyth, ed. 2003. A Blad of Ulster-Scotch frae Ullans: Ulster-Scots Culture, Language, and Writing. Belfast: Ullans. 229 pp. (paperback, ISBN 0 953035 08 5) Forty revised articles from Ullans: The Magazine for Ulster-Scots, including items on music and dance, sports, names, vocabulary, literature, and many other subjects. Paisley, Ian R. K. 1976. America's Debt to Ulster. Belfast: Puritan. xx + 75 pp. (paperback, ISBN not available) Discusses contributions fo Ulster emigrants to American character and political development, written in connection with the American bi-centennial. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail