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The Ulster Scots
Who are the Ulster-Scots / Scots-Irish?...
From the first human settlements in Ireland over 9,000 years ago, to the present day, there has been steady migration between Scotland & Ulster (the northern province of the island of Ireland) by the indigenous peoples of these lands, which at the closest point are only 13 miles apart.
Scots were officially recorded in Ulster from the 1400's with the Gallowglass; elite mercenary warriors who would provide their sevices to whomever could afford them... but the large scale migrations of Scots into Ulster didn't start until later. These began in the first decade of the 1600's with the Hamilton & Montgomery settlements, closely followed by the Plantation of Ulster. Another huge wave came in the 1690's from the Lowlands and in early 1800's more settlers came as a result of the Highland clearances.
The Scots who migrated to Ulster from around 1605 are generally referred to as 'Ulster-Scots', although in America they are known as 'Scots-Irish' or 'Scotch-Irish'. These terms commonly refer to those Scots who settled in Ulster from the Plantation era onward.
The Ulster-Scots were largely from the Lowlands & Borderlands of Scotland and were mainly Scots speaking in tongue... but there were also gaelic speaking settlers from the Highlands & west Lowlands. In all, they generally came from a background of subsistence tenant farming and they were mostly Presbyterian in faith. It can therfore be considered that anyone whose ancestors migrated from Scotland to Ulster from 1400 onward is of Ulster-Scottish descent.
This web site is an introduction to the history of Ulster-Scots people. I hope you will enjoy the info, videos, images & music. There are also links to many other Ulster-Scot / Scots-Irish resources for further reading & research.
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Hopefully this site will be changing to HTML5 format in the next month. This mean the full site experience will be able to be viewed on smartphones and tablets.
FREE Ulster-Scots Visitor Experience app for your iPhone or Android! Audio tours of Ulster-Scots sites with interactive maps. See Shop page to download.
More documentaries added to 'Videos' page. Enjoy!
The first people to come to Ireland came by the land bridge on the Antrim/Down coast
The Spectrum Centre, Shankill Road are hosting a Bluegrass and Roots Music Night on the 3rd of November in association with Belfast Music Week. Involved are :-Broken String BandDown & Out Bluegrass BandShort Talk by Billy Kennedy And Flaming Sticks by Natalie Chambers
Tickets are Adults £8 Consessions £6
Good Bluegrass & Bagpipe music / videos! A very good Scots-Irish site with interesting content.
A purely awesome website! Thank You So Much for creating it! -Yours Aye, Tommy
Greetings from an Ulster-Scot American! Great site, I'm lovin' the Scots Irish / Ulster Scots music & documentaries... Keep up the good work!
Music videos have been added to 'Music' page!
Thank you very much for this website. My Cameron Grandfather will surely enjoy it as much as I do. I am forwarded the link to him this morning. Thanks again!
Florida Scots-Irish!
The official domain name for the site is now...
www.forgedinulster.com
Please put it in your bookmarks! :-)
Music tracks now added to 'Music' page.
Part two of 'Born Fighting' doc now uploaded on 'Videos' page!
UTV documentary 'Born Fighting' by US senator James Webb is now available to watch on the 'Videos' page.
The Campbells are coming YA HO YA HO,super site!!! I me self be a Campbell,me forefathers hail fray Argyle.
Lang may yer lum reek!!!!
Cogratulations and very sharp looking web site.
Barry R McCain
The Ulster Heritage Project
UTV & STV 8:00pm Tuesday 1st Feb...
Born Fighting - The story of how the Scots-Irish shaped America.
First of a two part Documentary by Jim Webb.
Site went live on 30/01/2011... Yeah!