Scots-Irish Archives - Appalachian History

Our noblest deeds and characters are forgotten, or misrepresented.

Compared to the Puritans & the Cavaliers, the Covenanters have been neglected and ignored in the history and public thought of the country.

The shillelagh [siúil éille is a Gaelic word meaning “oak club”] is a wooden cudgel named for Shillelagh Forest in County Wicklow, Ireland.

January 25 marks the 255rd birthday of poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), who continues to be widely loved in the Scots-Irish community.

The custom of using a baby to signify the New Year originated in ancient Greece, the baby symbolizing in this case not birth, but re-birth.

Ritchie and Orr strike all the right chords in this survey of the history of the evolution of Scottish music in Appalachia.

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