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From 1710 to 1775, over 200,000 people settled from Ulster to the original thirteen American colonies. The largest numbers went to Pennsylvania. From that base some went south into Virginia, the Carolinas and across the South, with a large concentration in the Appalachian region. Others headed west to western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and ...
Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President (1829–1837) James K. Polk, 11th U.S. President (1845–1849) James Buchanan, 15th U.S. President (1857–1861) Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. President (1865–1869) Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877) Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. President (1881–1885) Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th U.S. President (1885–1889 & 1893–1897) Benjamin Harrison ...
Scottish-Irish Canadians or Scots-Irish Canadians are those who are Ulster Scots or those who have Ulster Scots ancestry and live in or were born in Canada. Ulster Scots are Lowland Scots people and Northern English people who immigrated to the Irish Province of Ulster from the early 17th century after the accession of James I (James VI as King of Scotland) to the English throne.
Three years ago, I launched a Facebook page dedicated to Lenawee County history and genealogy, a place where people could share photos and make family tree research inquiries. This year marks a ...
Virginia College, Cavan, formerly Virginia Vocational School, is the only secondary school in Virginia. Situated beside Lough Ramor, it is a mixed school educating approximately 740 pupils. [ 12 ] With three extensions built over the years (most recent in 2012), the school now has three ICT suites and a language lab.
Political boundaries in Ireland in 1450, before the plantations. The first Plantations of Ireland occurred during the Tudor conquest.The Dublin Castle administration intended to pacify and anglicise Irish territories controlled by the Crown and incorporate the Gaelic Irish aristocracy into the English-controlled Kingdom of Ireland by using a policy of surrender and regrant.
Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...
The coat of arms of the O'Neills of Ulster, the branch that held the title of High Kings of Ireland, were white with a red left hand (latterly, the Red Hand of Ulster), and it is because of this prominence that the red hand (though a right hand is used today, rather than the left used by the high kings) has also become a symbol of Ireland ...