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==History==
The Scots-Irish are descendants of the [[Ulster Scots]] immigrants who travelled to [[North America]] from [[Ulster]] in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Historically, they had settled the major part of [[Ulster]] province in northern Ireland. Most had previously lived in [[Scotland]], usually in the [[Scottish Lowlands|Lowlands]] and [[Scottish Borders|Scottish Border]] Country. The recent "Celtic Thesis" of Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney denies the history of their descent from [[Northumbria]]ns of the [[Scottish Borders|Scottish Border Country]] and northern England; instead these authors maintain that they were basically [[Celtic people|Celtic]] (as opposed to [[Anglo-Saxon]]), and that all Celtic groups ([[Scots Irish]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]], [[Welsh people|Welsh]] and others) were warlike herdsmen, in contrast to the peaceful farmers who predominated in [[England]]. Author [[James H. Webb]] puts forth a thesis in his book ''Born Fighting'' to suggest that the character traits of the Scots-Irish
Once settled as the dominant group in their section of Ireland, the Ulster-Scots suffered under the [[Penal Laws]] in Ireland, which discriminated against them because of their [[Presbyterian]] or other [[dissenting]] forms of Protestantism, and aggravated their historical grievances against [[England]]. This alleged anti-English sentiment may have encouraged some to join the [[Patriot (American Revolution)|patriotic cause]], though most in the Carolinas were loyalists. Some historians suggest that their experience in Ulster of being a colonial minority surrounded by a hostile [[Catholic]] population, prepared them for life on America's frontier facing the Indians. The Scotch-Irish celebrated their military victories over the Irish Catholics, which had saved their community from annihilation. Of special symbolic importance was the Battle of the Boyne.
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