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The '''Protestant Irish''' or '''Scotch-Irish''' were immigrants from Ireland to America of Protestant background. Most were Presbyterians. The arrived mostly in the period 1740-1770, heading especially to the frontier regions.
==Further reading==
* Glazier, Michael, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,'' (1999), the best place to start--the most authoritative source, with essays by over 200 experts; covers both Catholics and Protestants.
* Blethen, Tyler ''Ulster and North America: Transatlantic perspectives on the Scotch-Irish'' (1999) online at ACLS History e-book project
* Fischer, David Hackett. ''Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'' (1991), major scholarly study tracing colonial roots of four groups of immigrants, Irish, English Puritans, English Cavaliers, and Quakers.
* Griffin, Patrick. ''The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764''. (2001)
* Leyburn, James G. ''Scotch-Irish: A Social History'' (1989), scholarly survey; good starting point.
* McWhiney, Grady. '' Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South'' (1989), scholarly interpretation
* Meagher, Timothy J. ''The Columbia Guide to Irish American History.'' (2005).
* Webb, James. ''Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America''(2004) by a popular novelist who is now Senator from Virginia; not considered reliable by scholars.
==See also==
* [[Catholic Irish]]
[[category:Ethnicities]]
==Further reading==
* Glazier, Michael, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,'' (1999), the best place to start--the most authoritative source, with essays by over 200 experts; covers both Catholics and Protestants.
* Blethen, Tyler ''Ulster and North America: Transatlantic perspectives on the Scotch-Irish'' (1999) online at ACLS History e-book project
* Fischer, David Hackett. ''Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'' (1991), major scholarly study tracing colonial roots of four groups of immigrants, Irish, English Puritans, English Cavaliers, and Quakers.
* Griffin, Patrick. ''The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764''. (2001)
* Leyburn, James G. ''Scotch-Irish: A Social History'' (1989), scholarly survey; good starting point.
* McWhiney, Grady. '' Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South'' (1989), scholarly interpretation
* Meagher, Timothy J. ''The Columbia Guide to Irish American History.'' (2005).
* Webb, James. ''Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America''(2004) by a popular novelist who is now Senator from Virginia; not considered reliable by scholars.
==See also==
* [[Catholic Irish]]
[[category:Ethnicities]]