There is a reason why the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is a Saint Andrew's Cross. It's because of the heavy influence of the Scots-Irish.
...But we don’t want the Irish!
I have significant Irish heritage and don’t believe they have been written out of anything. I am proud of their contributions to America and proud to carry their DNA.
Seems awful heavy on the “pity the poor Irish”.
You mean the same irish now who advocate abortion, fag marriage and hate Trump? How these clowns have fallen.
Around 1995, I took some time off and researched my ancestors from Georgia. Georgia seems to have had a large number of Irish plus Scotch Irish. A lot of towns have Irish names.
One thing which got my attention was studying the American Revolution pension records. In applying for a pension they would name their outfit plus battles they were in.
A large number mentioned “The Florida Expedition” yet I have never heard of it mentioned in history books.
How do I know this?
Simple, because one of my extended family members was one such Irish soldier, fighting in the Brit army, who returned to Ireland after our Revolution. He was the distant ancestor of a man who married into the maternal side of the family.
Americans, who fought for OUR side, came from quite a few different original ethnicities!
Thanks for a great link.
As of now, 25% of my DNA is from Scotland and Ireland.
72% of my ancestors are from the UK, Wale and NW Europe.
I have been coming up with more Irish ancestors recently.
So Protestant America was actually a creation of the Pope!
Got it! Who knew!
When does the torture begin for all us un-Believers? We so loved the Inquisition, St. Bartholomews Day, Ulster...the fun never ended under Roman control! Let’s do it again!
Over looks the Scots particularly in north east Georgia who kept the Brits at bay
During the period of the American Revolution, the term Scots Irish was rarely used. Immigrants from both Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ulster were called Irish. They settled primarily in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas but they could be found in New England, New York, New Jersey and Georgia. In other words, practically everywhere. The Ulstermen began to migrate to American after the Restoration in 1660. Those in Ulster, who were Scots, English, and Welsh people received land during the Plantation of Ireland. Most of those land grants were recinded by Charles II, so those people came in American in droves.
Catholic immigrants came in fewer numbers due to resistance to Catholics in many of the colonies. The big exceptions were Pennsyvania and Maryland.
These people were very enthusiastic about the Revolution and supported Independence in every possible way. Muster rolls from Virginia and the Carolinas are full of Irish and Scots names. Interestingly, many Scots were active Loyalists. their journey to the New World came at the invitation of the English for rebellion in Scotland. They were required to take a Loyalty oath and they honored those oaths.
I think that this article reflects a New England bias. A visitor to Kings Mountain or Cowpens would hear plenty about the contribution of Irish to Independence.
It one goes to the Alamo in Texas and read the names on the walls of those heros and place of origin it is very revealing. You will find Irish, Scot, English, German, a few other nations and also American born and very oddly Mexican patriots names. This was a rebellion of the people against the tyranny of Santa Anna. Most of the Mexican patriots were born in what was then Mexico but what is now Texas.
Love the Irish, but the real hidden story in early America are the Germans. In the first census, they were the number one ethnicity here. Number two was Scottish. Number three was British. But yeah, Irish always did love to fight. So they probably contributing a higher percentage of fighters.
From the first federal census of 1790, Catholics comprised only about 6/10ths of a percent (0.6%) of the population of the thirteen original colonies (about 25,000 out of 3,939,000). [John Carroll (bishop), 1785.]
The Irish of the article aren’t Irish, they’re Ulster Scots.
My family is Irish. They live in a small town in Glennville, Georgia, about 20 miles outside Savannah. We can trace our roots well past the Revolutionary War and know we supported a fight against the King.
When I was a kid in the 30s there were some still around.
WASPs (White Anglo Saxton Protestants)
AKA, Heretics-Tom
It was a particular bunch of “Irish” called the Scots-Irish.
Relocated out of Scotland to the Ulster area of Ireland by the English, then forced out of there by Irish uprisings to finally land in the New World.
And after the revolution, many were forced out to the unsettled new areas in the south Appalachian Mountains by the Whiskey Tax after they lost the Whiskey War.
Self made whiskey being a grain farmers’ only real medium of exchange at the time. The tax was ruinous on small farm holdings.
There is a reason why the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is a Saint Andrew's Cross. It's because of the heavy influence of the Scots-Irish.
The Irish are fighters, the kings of England wanted as many
Irish in their ranks as they could get because they could and
would fight and even seemed to like it.
However the Irish are not prone to believe in a power higher
than them selves so they are falling by the way side like all
other unbelievers.
“How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution remembered this Patriot’s Day”
It was the Scots Irish...Northern Ireland/Ulster...my ancestors.