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Scotch-Irish, a.
a. Belonging to that part of the population of northern Ireland which is descended from Scotch settlers. Also absol. in plural sense. So Scotch-Irishman.
b. Of mixed Scots and Irish descent.
1744W. Marshe Jrnl. 21 June 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. 1789J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 313 [The Irish of Pennsylvania] have sometimes been called Scotch-Irish, to denote their double descent. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. iii. 333 But its convenient proximity to the border counties of Pennsylvania and Virginia had been observed by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and other bold and industrious men. 1883Harper'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. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 136/2 Late in the afternoon we got into the Scotch-Irish part of the valley. 1903J. Fox Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come x. 117 Broadcast, through the people, was the upright sturdiness of the Scotch-Irishman, without his narrowness and bigotry. 1916J. Webster Dear Enemy 187 That Scotch-Irish ancestry of mine. 1948H. MacLennan Precipice (1949) i. 5 The Scotch and the Scotch-Irish who had flooded into Ontario. 1963W. K. Rose Lett. Wyndham Lewis i. 1 An English girl of Scotch-Irish descent. 1980G. M. Fraser Mr. American xvii. 312 Reason is the last thing you can look for in a Scotch-Irish Protestant. Ibid. xix. 361 The Scotch-Irish who saw their freedom threatened. |