The link between Scotland and Ireland is a strong one, never more so than with Ulster. David Gordan looks at the association and its implications worldwide.
The Scots-Irish or Ulster Scots. Whatever name you choose, more than 27 million Americans claim their roots lie in the borders and south west of Scotland, and the townlands of Ulster.
They arrived to colonise the north of Ireland before making their way to America, settling in Pennsylvania, West Vi...
By David Gordon
from Issue 19 published on 20/3/2005
If so, there's a website that will allow you to trace your Caledonian heritage and find out exactly where your forefathers came from, and what they did as Martin Vousden reveals
Scotland has exported some wonderful things to the rest of the world – whisky and golf to name but two. But its greatest, and certainly most successful export has probably been its people, with the result that many corners of the globe (if a globe can, indeed, have corners) are now peopled by the de...
By Martin vousden
from Issue 12 published on 19/1/2004