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Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish may refer to:
- The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland, who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland
- Scotch-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots who first migrated to America in large numbers in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Scotch-Irish Canadians, descendants of Ulster Scots who migrated to Canada
Usage examples of "scotch-irish".
Out of a trough up in the Alleghany Mountains--one of those troughs occupied by the sinewy Scotch-Irish pioneers who first, after the French, as you will recall, crept down into the great valley--there journeyed one day, a century after Celoron, a young man on horseback.
Many of the people who first settled the Bodarks in the first half of the nineteenth century were descendants of those Scotch-Irish you write about.
He was of Scotch-Irish descent, his parents coming to this country in 1765 from Ireland and settling in the northern part of South Carolina on the Waxhaw Creek.
In tandem with the slave revolt plotted by Dunmore, Martin had tried to exploit some of the smoldering ethnic animosities in the region—in particular, between a second-generation settlement of Scots Highlanders (who held their lands directly from the Crown) and the more recent Lowland or Scotch-Irish immigrants, many of whom had joined the rebel cause.
When he asked Matty how she was doing, the Kiowa, Comanche, and Scotch-Irish gal said things had been quiet as a graveyard on her side, and asked him what all that shooting had been about on his side.
The ethnic religious mix in Pennsylvania was particularly volatile because the militant Scotch-Irish (who began to arrive in great numbers after 1728 and numbered 100,000 by 1754) despised the pacifist Quakers and German Pietists.