Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North ...

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"We were never at war with Americans like the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese. In Washington's army, the numbers were a third Irish or Scottish-Irish …There is an affinity by association.

I think in America it’s different ... Carslon, who lives and works in Atlanta, stressed that “We’re very Scotch-Irish down here. If you’re coming from Ireland and playing someone from ...

Emigration has many causes, but the one that helps explain the large Irish presence in America goes back to the 1800s. At the time, many Irish were suffering persecution at the hands of the ...

One woman, however, has revealed that her plans to give her little girl a Scottish name could "curse her to a lifetime of mispronunciation". Posting on Reddit, the American mum-to-be said ...

Ireland bolstered their hopes of a third successive Six Nations title as they made it 11 wins in a row over Scotland with a ruthless bonus-point 32-18 triumph at Murrayfield. At such a critical moment ...