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Scotch-Irish Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with their ancestors being originally migrated to Ulster, mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century.
The Irish in Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experience. Temple University Press, 1981. ISBN 0877222274, 9780877222279. Leigh, Wendy (2007). True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-34236-4. Poxon, Marita Krivda. Irish Philadelphia. Arcadia Publishing, January 28, 2013.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Pennsylvania State University, received his Masters at University College, Dublin, and his D.Phil. at Worcester College, Oxford. He specializes in the history of Celtic-speaking peoples in the British Isles in the Early and High Middle Ages, and in the Norse-Gaelic Irish Sea region of the same period.
Native Irish civilians were massacred in return. [18] By 1642, native Irish were in de facto control of much of the island under a Confederate Ireland, with about a third under the control of the opposition. However, many Ulster-Scots Presbyterians joined with the Irish in rebellion and aided them in driving the English out.
Garrett George Fagan (13 January 1963 - 11 March 2017) was an Irish American historian, singer and writer known for his research in the various areas of Roman history, as well as his critique of pseudoarchaeology. He was Professor of Ancient History at Penn State University. [1] [2]
The African American Irish Diaspora Network is an organization founded in 2020 that is dedicated to Black Irish Americans and their history and culture. Black Irish American activists and scholars have pushed to increase awareness of Black Irish history and advocate for greater inclusion of Black people within the Irish-American community. [233]
At the turn of the 21st century, the principles of human genetics and genetic genealogy were applied to the study of populations of Irish origin. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] The two other peoples who recorded higher than 85% for R1b in a 2009 study published in the scientific journal, PLOS Biology , were the Welsh and the Basques .
Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855 when James Irvin, a U.S. Congressman from Bellefonte, donated 200 acres (0.8 km 2) of land in Centre County [17] to the newly-established Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, representing the first of 10,101 acres (41 km 2) the school eventually acquired.