Scotland and Scotch-Irish Bibliography
Arthur Herman, in his book How the Scots Invented the Modern World makes
some interesting comments on page 200. "Instead, Ulster Scots were
quick-tempered, inclined to hard work followed by bouts of boisterous leisure
and heavy drinking (they were the first distillers of whisky in the New World,
employing native corn and rye instead of Scottish barley), and easy to provoke
into fighting. The term used to describe them was rednecks, a
Scots border term meaning Presbyterians. Another was cracker, from
the Scots word craik for "talk," meaning a loud talker or
braggart. Both words became permanent parts of the American
language, and a permanent part of the identity of the Deep South the Ulster
Scots created."
Bardon, Jonathan. A History of Ulster. Belfast, Northern Ireland: The
Blackstaff Press, 1992.
Bell, Robert. The Book of Scots-Irish Family Names. Belfast, Northern
Ireland: The Blackstaff Press, 1988. (First published 1988 as The Book of
Ulster Surnames, 1988.
Bolton, Charles Knowles. Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America,
Boston: Bacon and Brown, 1910. (Reprinted by Heritage Book, Inc., Bowie,
Maryland. 1989.) One of the classics in the field.
Dickson, R. J.. Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775. Belfast,
Northern Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1966. (First published 1966 by
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd on behalf of Ulster Historical Foundation)
Dobson, David. Scots-Irish Links 1575-1725, Part One and Part Two.
Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted, two books in one for the Clearfield Company,
Inc. by the Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. Originally published St. Andrews,
Fife, Scotland, 1994 (Part One) and 1995 (Part Two).
______. Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725. Part Three. Baltimore, Maryland:
The Clearfield Company, 2001
______. Later Scots-Irish Links, 1725-1825. Baltimore, Maryland: The
Clearfield Company, 2003.
Ford, Henry Jones. The Scotch-Irish in America. Princeton, New Jersey,
1915. (Originally published by the Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1915
and reprinted 1966 for the Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing
Co., Baltimore, Maryland. This work is considered one of the classics in the
field.)
Glasgow, Maude. The Scotch-Irish in Northern Ireland and the American
Colonies. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936. (Reprinted 1998 by Heritage
Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland.)
Griffin, Patrick. The People With No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots,
America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World,
1689-1764. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Hanna, Charles A. The Scotch-Irish, Or, The Scot in North Britain, North
Ireland and North America. Reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company,
Baltimore, Maryland, 1995. (Two volumes, 623 pp. And 602 pp.) (Another of the
classics in Scotch-Irish publications.)
Kennedy, Billy. The Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Belfast,
Northern Ireland: Causeway Press, 1998.
Kinealy, Christine and Trevor Parkhill. The Famine in Ulster. Belfast,
Northern Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1997.
Leyburn, James G. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill,
North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1962. (Another one of the
classics in the area of Scotch-Irish studies.)
Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. New
York: Broadway Books, a division on Random House, 2004.
