Regions with significant populations | |
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United States |
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Northern Ireland | |
Republic of Ireland | |
Languages | |
Ulster English, Ulster Irish, Ulster Scots, Scots Gaelic (small numbers historically) | |
Religion | |
Mainly Presbyterian, some Church of Ireland and other Protestant denominations | |
Related ethnic groups | |
The Ulster Scots people are an ethnic group[6][7][8][9] descended largely from Scottish and English settlers who moved to the north of Ireland during the 17th century.[10][11][12] There is an Ulster Scots dialect of the Scots language.
Found mostly in the province of Ulster, their ancestors were Protestant settlers who migrated from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England during the Plantation of Ulster, which was a planned process of colonisation following the Tudor conquest of Ireland.[13] The largest numbers came from Dumfries and Galloway, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Scottish Borders, Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Yorkshire and, to a lesser extent, from the Scottish Highlands.[14]
Ulster Scots people emigrated in significant numbers to the American colonies, later the United States, and elsewhere in the British Empire. In North America, they are called Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish.
While 33 US Presidents have had ancestral links to Scotland, many of these men have heritage that is classified as Ulster-Scots. This ethnic group has historically been found in the Ulster region of Ireland, and is so-called because of their own historical links to the lowlands of Scotland, where the group's ancestors originated.
The Scots-Irish coming from the towns and countryside of Ulster County, Ireland, constitute a religiously and culturally distinct population from the remainder of Catholic Ireland. ... The section of "Works devoted to Scots-Irish Americans" provides 3 a wide variety of sources and approaches to the study of this ethnic group.
The emergence of an Ulster-Scots ethnicity within the broader transatlantic context is his primary focus, as per the headline of his title.