THE SCOT IN ULSTER

THE SCOT BRINGS WITH HIM HIS SCOTTISH CHURCH

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CHAPTER IV.

IN this manner, during the early years of the seventeenth century--from 1606 to 1611--there was opened up a field for emigration into which Scotsmen were to pour during the succeeding half-century. The stream of emigrants must have varied in volume from year to year, but probably never altogether ceased; while the intercourse between the mother country and her sons in the neighbouring island was, during the whole of that period, close and intimate. Naturally, those counties which were nearest Scotland received the greatest numbers of the emigrants, until Antrim and Down contained districts as Scotch as Roxburgh or Wigtown--districts of which thirty years ago, two centuries after the emigration, a writer who knew the people well could say, these "are inhabited by a population speaking as broad Scotch as is now to be met with in the parent country, and who read and enjoy the poems of Ramsay and Burns with as much zest as...continue reading »

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The Scot in Ulster:
Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster

by John Harrison

1888