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unusual facts about Ulster-Scots



Adlai Stevenson I

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Alexander Craighead

He was born in Donegal, Ulster, Ireland around on March 18, 1705, and came to North America with his father, the Reverend Thomas Craighead.

Alexander of Scotland

King Alexander I of Scotland or Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim (c. 1078–1124), King of Scots, called "The Fierce"

Archibald McLean

Archibald MacLean, officer in the Royal Scots, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force

Baron Dunleath

The Mulholland family were involved in the cotton and linen industry in Ulster in the north of Ireland.

Bernard de Balliol

Bernard II de Balliol, (d. c. 1190), Anglo-Picard baron who led the capture of William the Lion, King of the Scots, in 1174

Cairo, West Virginia

The town was named by its earliest settlers, who were Scots Presbyterians, for the city of Cairo, Egypt, owing to the presence of water and fertile land at the site.

Caledonian Road, London

It was first known as Chalk Road but changed its name after the Royal Caledonian Asylum, for the children of poor exiled Scots, was built here in 1828.

Catskill Mountain Railroad

On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to dismantle 32 miles of railroad in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving only the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations.

Christian Davies

Once discharged, she promptly re-enlisted, this time in 4th Royal North British Dragoons (later the Scots Greys) in 1697.

Clan Bruce

Bruce appears to have sided with the Scots during the Battle of Stirling Bridge but when Edward returned victorious, to England after the Battle of Falkirk, Bruce's lands of Annandale and Carrick were exempted from the lordships and lands which Edward assigned to his followers.

Clement of Ireland

Though St. Clement is no longer claimed as founder of the University of Paris, the fact remains that this remarkable Scots-Irish scholar planted the seeds of learning at Paris.

Contalmaison

The village is notable for its McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial which honours the fallen of the 16th Royal Scots.

David Bruce

David II of Scotland (1324–1371), David Bruce, King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce

Denise Low

A 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage, she was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas, where she began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Emporia Gazette.

Douglas Lawrence

Raymond Douglas Lawrence OAM (born 1943) is an Australian organist who is Director of Music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne.

Dudi Appleton

In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.

Eithne Coyle

Following the signing of the treaty she toured County Donegal, County Londonderry and County Tyrone and found that many of the local branches had lost much of their membership and was forced to reorganise the movement in Ulster as a more streamlined model.

Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981

Opposition to the Sunningdale Agreement led to an alliance of Unionist parties under the label of the United Ulster Unionist Coalition running agreed candidates in all constituencies, here putting forward the new leader of the Ulster Unionists, Harry West.

George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville

George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636 – 20 May 1707) was a Scots aristocrat and statesman during the reigns of William and Mary.

Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton

He tried by frequent letters to Burghley and to Christopher Hatton to keep himself in favour with the queen's ministers, and managed to offer satisfactory explanations when it was reported in 1574 that he was exchanging tokens with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Henry Stuart

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, cousin and second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, father of James VI of Scotland

James McCusker

James Harold McCusker (1940–1990), Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician

James Tyrie

On his return in December, Tyrie was sent to the University of Pont-à-Mousson, as professor of Scripture and head of the Scots College, and two years later, on the successive deaths of Fathers Edmund Hay and Paul Hoffaeus, he was again called to Rome (22 May, 1592), where he became Assistant for France and Germany, and played his part in the Sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1593).

Jehanne Wake

Emily, the only daughter to stay in the United States, married John MacTavish, a Scots-Canadian fur trade entrepreneur and British Consul to Baltimore, Maryland.

Johannes Narssius

An epitaph of his was collected in Robert Monro, Monro his Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment.

Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.

Mac Maoláin

Mac Maoláin was a surname borne by a number of unrelated families in Gaelic Ireland, found in Breifne, Mide, Brega, Connacht and Ulster.

Mikael Heggelund Foslie

This collection was donated to the Ulster Museum by The Queen's University of Belfast in 1968.

Name of Sweden

It appeared in Scots during the 17th century in forms such as Swethin and Swadne.

Pettigo railway station

The station's main purpose was to offer easy access for the considerable pilgrim traffic to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

Pound Scots

The pound Scots (Modern Scots: Pund Scots, Middle Scots: Pund Scottis) was the unit of currency in the Kingdom of Scotland before the kingdom unified with the Kingdom of England in 1707.

Rebel Inc.

A steady stream of eclectic but edgy releases then ensued, with out-of-print editions by the likes of Alexander Trocchi and Sadegh Hedayat, themselves substantially influential on many of the recent darker Scots authors like Welsh and Alan Warner.

Robert Bemborough

Conan Doyle's Bambro is an "old soldier", described as a "rugged Northumbrian" (his name being a reference to Bamburgh) schooled in the tough Anglo-Scots border wars: "a dry, hard, wizened man, small and fierce, with beady black eyes and quick furtive ways.".

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

Rupert, on the other hand, had seen the swift fiery charges of the fierce troopers of the Thirty Years' war, and was backed up by Patrick Ruthven, Lord Ruthven, one of the many Scots who had won honour under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran

Dixon retained his sporting links throughout his life: he was President of the Jury at the 1976 Winter Olympics, set up the Ulster Games Foundation in 1983, and was appointed Chairman of the Northern Ireland Tall Ships Council in 1987.

Rose Neill

She moved to BBC Northern Ireland in 1984 to present the main early evening news programme with Sean Rafferty Inside Ulster, and went on to present its replacement BBC Newsline and various other news bulletins.

Scotch-Irish

The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England

Scotshouse

Not many Currin players have won Ulster Medals but the first to win an Ulster Medal was the legendary Packie Smith of Cavany in 1914.

Siege of Waterford

However, Waterford still had access to reinforcements from the west and up to 3000 Irish soldiers (from the Confederate's Ulster Army) under Richard Farrell were fed into the city in the course of a week.

St. Michael of Scarborough

It was compiled using sources from David Dobsons book regarding Scots Banished to the American Plantations, which makes reference to original sources from the Scottish Privy Council as well as others.

The Hot Scots

Like Squareheads of the Round Table and Fiddlers Three, The Hot Scots was filmed on the existing set of the feature film The Bandit of Sherwood Forest.

Twang!!

Robin Hood and his Merry Men to break into Nottingham Castle, in a variety of preposterous disguises, in order to prevent a marriage between the nymphomaniac "court tart" Delphina and the hairy Scots laird Roger the Ugly, arranged for the purpose of securing the loan of Scottish troops for bad Prince John.

Ulster Grand Prix

Thomas Moles, motorcycle enthusiast and Member of Parliament, helped to push through parliament the first Road Races Act, which made it legal for the Clady Course to be closed for the first Ulster Grand Prix on 14 October 1922.

Ulster Political Research Group

After a few months McMichael wrote about the progress of the group in the UDA's Ulster magazine and stated that they had examined the case for direct rule from Westminster and found it to be wholly unsatisfactory.

Ulster Volunteers

After World War I, the British Government agreed to set up two self-governing regions in Ireland: Northern Ireland (made up of six Ulster counties with Protestant/unionist majorities), and Southern Ireland.

Walden United Methodist Church

Later they used a schoolhouse on what is today Ulster Avenue (NY 208).

William Henry Harvey

Ronald Campbell Gunn (1808–1881) Harvey specimens in the Ulster Museum are from George Town.


see also

Barry A. Vann

Among Professor Vann's more important books are Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage; In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imaginings of a Transatlantic People; Geography Toward History: Studies in the Mediterranean Basin and Mesopotamia (with Ellsworth Huntington); Puritan Islam: The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World; and The Forces of Nature: Our Quest to Conquer the Planet.

Scotch-Irish

Scotch-Irish Americans, descendents of Ulster Scots who first migrated to North America in large numbers in the early 18th century

Ulster Third Way

U3W tended to focus its attentions on trying to build up grass-roots support in loyalist areas, emphasising Ulster-Scots and the Battle of the Boyne commemorations and has its main office in the Shankill area of Belfast.