The following passage is excerpted from Whitelaw Reid’s The Scot in America and the Ulster Scot, first published back in 1912. In this piece Reid discusses the Scots (and later their brothers and sisters the Ulster-Scots) as one of the three founding ethnic/cultural groups in British North America. These three groups were the Puritans,...
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Whitelaw Reid, in his 1912 book The Scot in America and the Ulster Scot, describes early Scottish migration to the British colonies of North America: Many inhabitants of North-western Scotland, especially the clans of Macdonald and Macleod, were induced to emigrate; and their repors drew after them whole neighbourhoods from the Isles of Raasay...
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If you haven’t heard of the Scottish band Albannach you’re in for quite a treat! Check out the video below and visit their site Scotland Rising. If this doesn’t get your Celtic blood flowing I’m not sure what will! Here Jamesie Johnson from the band speaks about his passion for being Scottish, his heritage...
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