2. I. The First Irish Immigration
II. The Second Irish Immigration
III. Settlement and Assimilation
A. Scots Irish
B. Irish
IV. Religion, Family Values and
Familial Roles
A. Scots Irish
B. Irish
V. Traditions
3. Scots-Irish preparing to leave Ireland
•200,000 immigrate from
1717-1775
•Protestant dissenters
•1740 drought
4. Irish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island
•Nearly 4 million
immigrate from the
1920’s until the early 1900’s
•Potato Famine
•Half were single women
5. Scots-Irish on the Appalachian Trail
•Helped settle the frontier
near the southern Appalachian
Mountains
•8 of 56 signers of the
Declaration of Independence were
Scots-Irish
6. Immigrant neighborhood in NYC
•Majority of the new Irish
immigrants were Catholic
•Majority of americans were
Protestants at the time
•Mostly went in to manual
Labor
7. •Jonathan Edwards’
sermon “Sinners in the
hands of an angry god,”
is a good example of
Scots-irish religious
views
•Scots-Irish beliefs
had a tendency to
create a taciturn, fatalist
worldview
•Patriarchal society
•Similar ideals can
seen in America’s Bible
Belt
Jonathan Edwards
11. Work Cited
Leyburn, James G. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. University of
North Carolina Press 1962, p. 180. Print.
McGaughey, Jane G.V., and Joseph Moore. “Covenanter sensibility
across the long Atlantic World.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies Vol. 11.
No. 2 (2013): p 125-34. Web. 18 Sept. 2013.
McGoldrick, M. and JK Pearce. “Family therapy with Irish Americans.”
Family Process. June Vol. 20 (2) (1981): p. 223-44, Publisher Family
Process New York, NY. Web. 10 Sept. 2013
O’Neill, Molly. “Food: The Pot Luck of the Irish.” New York Times. 14
March 14, 1999. Web. Sept. 12. 2013.
Robinson, Emily M. “Sacred Memory: the Covenanters use of History in
Scotland and America.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 2,
(2013): p.135-157. Web. 12 Sept. 2013.
Webb, James. “Why you need to know the Scots-Irish.” Parade Magazine
3 Oct. 2004: Web. 10 Sept. 2013.
12. "You hang by a
slender thread, with
the flames of divine
wrath flashing...There
is nothing that
keeps...men at any
one moment out of
hell, but the mere
pleasure of God."
Jonathan Edwards
•Scots-Irish beliefs had
a
•Potato Famine
•Half were single
women
