Scotch-Irishadj.n.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 Cuthbert of whose life such Myracles are told,..Of th'old Scotch-Irish Kings descended from the straine.

1843 T. Smith Presbytery & not Prelacy iii. i. 454 Of the six nations or tribes into which, in the sixth century, Britain was divided, at least five of them received their knowledge of the gospel and its institutions from the Culdees, or the Scotch-Irish christians, or from Gaul.

1891 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church IV. 374 The Cummean Penitential..is of Scotch-Irish origin, and variously assigned to Columba of Iona (about 597), to Cumin, one of his disciples, or to Cummean.

1914 Vital Rec. Londonderry, New Hampsh. III. 23 The pioneers from Ireland came in the beginning of the seventh century and established themselves on the western coast [of Scotland]. They were called ‘Scotch-Irish’.

1969 T. J. Fleming Man from Monticello i. 26 The Poems of Ossian..were supposed to be the works of a Celtic Homer who flourished in the dawn of Scotch-Irish history.

1982 M. Balmuth Roots of Phonics x. 73 Brythonic..was coined from a Welsh word for Briton, while Cymric has long been in use from the Welsh word for ‘Welsh’. Both terms exclude the Gaelic/Scotch-Irish Celts.

1690 W. Pattent Affidavit 15 Mar. in Somerset County (Maryland) Judicial Rec., 1689–1690 106 67 I will give you full satisfaction to your own Content. You Scotch Irish dogg it was you.

1744 W. Marshe Jrnl. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1801) 1st Ser. VII. 177 The inhabitants [of Lancaster, Pa.] are chiefly High-Dutch, Scotch-Irish, some few English families, and unbelieving Israelites.

a1770 T. Cradock Maryland Eclogues x, in Poet. Writings (1983) 200 Meanwhile, Scotch-Irish shall my socials be.

1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. iii. 333 Its convenient proximity to the border counties of Pennsylvania and Virginia had been observed by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and other bold and industrious men.

1897 Outing 30 136/2 Late in the afternoon we got into the Scotch-Irish part of the valley.

1920 C. J. H. Hayes Polit. & Social Hist. Mod. Europe II. xxii. 325 The Home Rule Bill encountered furious opposition at the hands of the Scotch-Irish and English-Irish inhabitants of Ulster.

1963 W. K. Rose Lett. Wyndham Lewis i. 1 An English girl of Scotch-Irish descent.

1991 T. Marshall Changelings (1992) viii. 123 Like his wife, who was also his cousin, he was Scotch-Irish with, generations back, an admixture of French and Italian.

2006 E. Hirschman et al. Two Continents, One Culture 48 Every site devoted to Scotch-Irish culture we visited displayed a spinning wheel and/or loom.

1635 W. Saltonstall in tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 68 (margin) This Citie [sc. Edinburgh] the Scotch-Irish call Dun Eaden, the town Eaden.

1904 C. J. Herlihy Celt above Saxon 114 At the present day our Scotch Highlanders, or as they are sometimes called, the Scotch-Irish..must admit that it was from the great Irish missionary, St. Columba, that they received the light of the gospel and the first rudiments of civilization.

1691 G. W. Story Impartial Hist. Wars of Ireland 82 The Scotch-Irish that followed our Camp..took off most of the Plunder.

1695 in J. G. Leyburn Scotch-Irish (1962) (modernized text) xiii. 248 In the two counties of Dorchester and Somerset, where the Scotch-Irish are most numerous, they almost clothe themselves by their linen and woollen manufactures.

1771 T. Drage Let. 2 Mar. in B. Franklin Papers (1974) XVIII. 41 All the Scotch Irish are clanned in one Settlement together.

1789 W. Maclay Jrnl. 11 May (1890) 30 He will..dimple his visage with the most silly kind of half smile which I can not well express in English. The Scotch-Irish have a word that hits it exactly—smudging.

1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 421/2 The so-called Scotch-Irish are the descendants of the Englishmen and Lowland Scotch who began to move over to Ulster in 1611.

1916 Indiana Mag. of Hist. June 176 The Scotch-Irish in Ireland usually speak of themselves as ‘Ulster Scots’. They are usually of the Presbyterian faith.

1948 H. MacLennan Precipice (1949) i. 5 The Scotch and the Scotch-Irish who had flooded into Ontario.

2007 W. Hopper Puritan Gift i. 10 The Scotch-Irish were the source of much of a popular and lively American language that lingers to this day.

1916 M. S. Lockwood Afoot & Ahweel in Europe 38 The Scots from Ireland, a Celtic tribe, settled on the west coast and established a kingdom..[which continued] under a series of kings until the reign of Kenneth McAlpin in 836, when the Scotch Irish became the dominant race in the land.

1982 M. Balmuth Roots of Phonics x. 73 In the British Isles, most of the Goidelic Celts lived in Ireland, although the Scotch-Irish of northern Britain and the people of the Isle of Man were also Goidelic.