Scottish-Irishn.adj.

1573 in State Papers Ireland Elizabeth I (P.R.O.: SP 63/40/59) f. 154 To make slaves and to chayne vnto any shipe or Galey, all or any suche of the Irishery or Scottish Irishe, as shalbe condempned of treason.

1637 P. Holland in tr. W. Camden Brit. (new ed.) ii. 215 The overthrow and slaughter of the Scottish Irish,..under the conduct of Sir William Norris in the yeere 1575.

1823 G. Benn Hist. Town Belfast 195 They stipulate farther to grant no estate to any of the mere Irish or Scottish Irish, or to intermarry with them without permission.

1876 A. B. Grosart in J. Davies Wks. Verse & Prose II. Introd. p. lxii In Down and Antrym, there is a wild kearne, who they say is a Scottish-Irish.

1922 Independent & Weekly Rev. 28 Jan. 68/1 It had likewise stirred to fury the spirit of opposition among the Scottish-Irish in the north of the island itself.

2007 J. Casanova in T. Banchoff Democracy & New Relig. Pluralism iv. 70 Do not forget that the majority of Americans of Irish descent are of Protestant origin, descendants of the Scottish-Irish.

1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 64 The Ocean, neare to which stands Dunck-eran a Bishops Seat, this Dunck-eran, which in the Scottish-Irish [L. Hiberno-Scotis], is as much as to say, the Towne Eran.

1954 P. Thorsen in W. D. Simpson Viking Congr. 1950 233 ‘Scottish-Irish’ [i.e. as transl. L. Scoto-Hibernicus (1662)] is evidently Gaelic, whatever the author means by characterizing it as a mixture of Scottish and Irish elements.

1656 J. Chaloner Short Treat. Isle of Man ii. 4 in D. King Vale-royall Eng. This island [sc. Isle of Man] was first peopled from the Hebrides,..their Language being the very same with that of the Scottish-Irish.

1682 S. Clarke Hist. Glorious Life, Reign, & Death Queen Elizabeth 120 Some strong Holds in Galloway or Cantyr, should be delivered into the English mens Hands, lest from thence the Scottish Irish might infest Ireland.

a1692 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. in M. Hunter Occult Lab. (2001) iii. 77 Done for the satisfaction of his friends by a modest inquirer, living among the Scotish-Irish.

1762 T. Mortimer Brit. Plutarch 265 When he came to Lymrick, he received advertisement of a great number of islanders, or Scotish Irish, landing at Maney.

1920 W. B. Yeats in Lady Gregory Visions & Beliefs West of Ireland I. Notes 265 He [sc. Robert Kirk] is described upon his tomb as Lignæ hibernæ lumen, for in his day little distinction ws made between the Irish and the Scottish-Irish among whom he lived and whose words he has recorded.

?1593 Trew. Disc. Late State Scotl. in State Papers Scotl. Elizabeth I (P.R.O.: SP 52/52/118) f. 1^v Huntley invited one Maukintoiche a scotishe irishe lorde of mightie forces, to dinner.

1684 R. Kirke Psalma Dhaibhidh Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v For assisting of our Sagacious Scotish Irish people in their publick or private Devotions.

1754 J. Lodge Peerage of Ireland I. 105 He (being of the Scottish-Irish Race) was made a free Denizon of Ireland.

1846 New Hampsh. Repository July 255 Lincoln county received nearly all the Scottish Irish emigrants, who settled in Maine.

1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xviii. 443 Presbyterians of Scottish-Irish descent.

1906 Munsey's Mag. Feb. 600/2 Besides the five Scottish-Irish Presidents, three more—Monroe, Grant, and Hayes—were of Scottish ancestry; and so is President Roosevelt on his mother's side.

1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue xv. 235 According to one story..the Duffs and the Burgers..decided..to devise a private language based partly on their common Scottish-Irish heritage.