The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764.(Book Review)

by Patrick Griffin (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2001; pp. 244. Pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling).

There has been a large literature on early Irish migration to America, mostly dealing with the Ulster Scots or Irish Presbyterians. This book has a different emphasis from others. It moves from study of the actual movement itself to the broader cultural and religious background to the migrations, and to how, on arrival, the migrants settled into America. Study of Irish Presbyterians, the quantitative aspect of their migration apart, has been relatively neglected. It is therefore welcome that a researcher has looked in some detail not only at Presbyterian records but at records …