Category: Diaspora
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Ulster American Folk Park
As an add-on to the Emigration Experiences blog posting, there is a unique opportunity to experience what it was like to emigrate from Ireland to America as so many of our ancestors did. At the Ulster American Folk Park the visitor can see reproductions of Irish homes of the 18th and 19th century and learn… Read more
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Week 8: Emigration Experiences
This week in the course the topic was emigration experiences of Scottish emigrants going to Canada, the USA, and to Australia and New Zealand. Leaving home was not for the weak of heart. The experience began with sadly saying goodbye to family and friends, and watching the land disappear on the horizon. In the early… Read more
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Week 6: Emigration Recruitment
The people of Scotland have been the subject of recruitment ventures since the first effort to populate Ulster, Ireland with English and Scottish peoples in the 1540s, before the time of the Plantation. Later, in about 1609, English were given land in what is now Ulster with the intention of populating the land with Protestants.… Read more
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Week 4: Emigration from the Highlands
This week emigration from western Scotland, considered the highlands, was examined in the course. This is such a complex topic for a week’s study when entire courses are taught on the highland clearances and the famine in Scotland. This week’s study led me to look at the Leslie population on the western coast. But first,… Read more
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Week 3: Northeast Scotland Emigration
Last week the topic of the blog was on the Scottish Emigration to the Wilmington, North Carolina area. This is a region of the USA that had and still has many people with Scots-Irish ancestors. This week the focus of the blog is shifted to the area associated with the beginnings of the global Leslie… Read more
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Scottish Emigration 1730-1780
This week we studied the Scottish Emigration of the 1730-1780 Podcast: Highland Charge: Scots in Cape Fear The North and South Carolina is well known as the epicenter of Scottish immigration during the mid-1700s. In this podcast the listener gains an understanding of the reasons for the influx of Scots into the North/South Carolina region… Read more
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Week 1: What is the Scottish Diaspora?
Week 1 University of Aberdeen course, The Scottish Diaspora. Taught by Dr. Marjory Harper. Diaspora: ( di-az-por-a ) The Scottish Diaspora is a term used to describe both: 1. the Scottish people and their descendants who left Scotland, and 2. the act of leaving (emigration) of the Scottish people. The Scottish Diaspora can be thought… Read more
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Scottish Government’s Scottish Connections (Diaspora) Work
Qualitative Research for the Scottish Government’s Scottish Connection (Diaspora) Work. Leith, Murray Stewart & Sim, Duncan (2022). University of the West of Scotland. Retrieved on online on November 2023 from https://www.gov.scot/publications/literature-review-scottish-governments-scottish-connections-diaspora-work-2/documents/ This is a report commissioned by the Scottish Government concerning the characteristics of a successful diaspora policy. The diaspora is not a single event,… Read more