God's Frontiersmen: The Scots-Irish Epic - Episode 3.

Episode three of a landmark TV mini-series first aired nationally in 1988 on Channel Four. This Docu-Drama tells the story of the Ulster-Scots, the Presbyterian pioneers from Scotland that settled the dangerous frontiers of Ulster, and then later many of whom journeyed to the wild frontiers of colonial America to help shape a new nation.
Part three of Four:
This episode covers the 19th century history of the Ulster-Scots in the USA. It explores the Texas Revolution, mountain men, Appalachian music & Scots-Irish dominance in politics & Business.
Please visit: www.forgedinulster.co.uk

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  • @ProfileP246
    @ProfileP2462 жыл бұрын

    We prefer Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland, great show.

  • @susanfrancis3761
    @susanfrancis37613 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for downloading this! I'm Scotch Irish and love to learn about my background!

  • @shanebell2514
    @shanebell2514 Жыл бұрын

    The comparison between the Confederates and Scots Covenanters uniforms is startling, 200 years in the difference but quite similar.

  • @rogerashmore6720
    @rogerashmore67202 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! My were Scots-Irish the Ashmore's.

  • @shanebell2514
    @shanebell2514 Жыл бұрын

    The Confederate battle flag saltire resembles the Scottish flag.

  • @williamf4544
    @williamf45445 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the most interesting well put together /commentated documentaries ive seen - and ive seen a lot - thank you

  • @rileyhinds8616
    @rileyhinds86165 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this valuable information!

  • @nancydement3471
    @nancydement3471 Жыл бұрын

    I am also scotch Irish and my grandma was Cherokee

  • @dwdorris3048
    @dwdorris30484 жыл бұрын

    Love the way this ended

  • @davy6504
    @davy65043 жыл бұрын

    It's nice to see so much positive discussion around this topic being an Englishman married to an Ulster woman i have lived in Belfast most of my life i can honestly say i could not and would not live anywhere else it's good to see so many of our American cousins of Ulster Scots descent re discovering their true ancestry. after much the so called Irish American lobbyists have done their level best to hijack and eradicate the huge contribution Ulster Scots/Scots Irish more than any other peoples made to the foundations of the United States of America It is a travesty that so many American's donated to organisations such as NORAID which contributed so greatly the death and destruction of our wee country and their own kinsmen...

  • @brucecollins4729

    @brucecollins4729

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Clean your room Redskull many many on the "ulster scots" would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months then leaving for the americas to jine their earlier scots kin. they never sat in ireland for a couple o centuries then went in one discounted bulk load.

  • @cmiller1952
    @cmiller19525 жыл бұрын

    💓💓 💓... but there are lots of us up North too

  • @benjamingrist6539

    @benjamingrist6539

    5 жыл бұрын

    Black Swamp Homestead true, but the Ulster Scots culture in the North was drowned out by the waves of immigrants that arrived in the 1800s. The Ulster Scots had a huge impact on early American history, but they were few in number compared to the mass of Slavs, Italians, and Catholic Irish that flooded the North. However, few of the immigrants of the 1800s made it to the South, which allowed Ulster Scots culture to grow and thrive. Much love to my Yankee cousins from a Southern descendant of Ulster Scots!

  • @cmiller1952

    @cmiller1952

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@benjamingrist6539 ... Agree.... our family and several other Scot Irish families moved west to NW Ohio from Virginia and Pennsylvania as soon as it opened for settlers... since then, others came and our family grew large.... not quite like the melting pot in the east 💓

  • @jf723

    @jf723

    4 жыл бұрын

    It seems the Ulster Scots history has been lost in the USA which is unfortunate. From an Ulster Scot still in Ulster it is great to see our shared heritage for which many try to make us ashamed.

  • @diankreczmer6595
    @diankreczmer65953 жыл бұрын

    This sounds like Arizona where cattle have the right away over your property

  • @KoolT
    @KoolT Жыл бұрын

    Did the frontier man in the middle of this story do a dinner party featuring his native wife?

  • @missfeliss3628
    @missfeliss36282 жыл бұрын

    Not sure why they are described as leisure oriented ...... They never have been interested in being rich and snobbish..... Not sure what they mean by " leisure" ... Omg.. I didn't know it was in my DNA to hate suburbs..... Houses need to be spread out... I don't mind being able to see them...but I got to not really be able to hear them... Got to have a big plot of land... With lots of trees.....lollll...

  • @jimstrong9976

    @jimstrong9976

    Жыл бұрын

    Leisure oriented? Penchant for harsh, unaged whiskey called shine. When Scots-Irish moved into a new area, the first two things they did was build a kirk and a still, and not in that order. See "the Journal of the Reverend Woodmason."

  • @diankreczmer6595
    @diankreczmer65953 жыл бұрын

    Ugh. Get me another squaw, I have cannibalized the previous one

  • @timhunter8337
    @timhunter83373 жыл бұрын

    I beg your pardon but my Scots-Irish ancestors fought and died fighting for the Union!

  • @shanebell2514

    @shanebell2514

    Жыл бұрын

    The programme doesn`t deny scots irish fought for the Union, just that more proportionate numbers were Confederates.

  • @jimstrong9976

    @jimstrong9976

    Жыл бұрын

    All families have a few black sheep.

  • @tbjtbj4786

    @tbjtbj4786

    Жыл бұрын

    Dammed Yankees

  • @elaineburnett5230
    @elaineburnett5230 Жыл бұрын

    The speaker fails to mention that slavery made living a lazy life so much easier......Scots Irish forgot how badly he was treated, and repeatedly use that cruelty to African and Native Americans.

  • @dorasmith7875
    @dorasmith78754 жыл бұрын

    I'm not following what would be particularly Calvinistic about thinking you have a mission. Scotch-Irish, maybe. Indo-European, maybe. But, Calvinism explicitly teaches that the fate of each person's soul was decided at the beginning of time and they cannot change it, nor can they presume to know what it is. So on an individual matter who would dare to evangelize to anyone else, and what would be the point. And what does any of this even have to do with missions or fates of nations? If the Scotch-IRish themselves made some connection between predestination and the fate of nations, you're going to have to explicitly build the history of that for us, because no logical connection is there.

  • @msaccyps7230
    @msaccyps72303 жыл бұрын

    Stolen legacy ..!

  • @joelhaughee6289
    @joelhaughee62894 жыл бұрын

    Not in the whole discussion of the Civil War, was there even a single mention of African American slaves, the issue of slavery in the Civil War, the abolitionists, or of black soldiers fighting in it. Instead it is treated like it was some sort of dispute between northern Catholic recent immigrants and their Yankee overlords against the Protestant, mainly Presbyterian southerners. This is a ridiculous deception as to the real issues of the Civil War. The whole of the narration is completely laced with bigoted references, such as that Yellowstone was "discovered" by a white man, even though it admits that Native Americans were present there. Slavery is only mentioned as some kind of excuse for the conquest of the south rather than the actual truth, that it was the principle reason it was fought. Add to this, the disdain for unionism, and you have a veritable banquet of the right wing attitudes that dominate the politics of the south right down to this day. This film is pure propaganda.

  • @catherinewylie6959

    @catherinewylie6959

    4 жыл бұрын

    Around 24 minutes in, I was struck by the guy on the horse talking about how Southerners thought anyone who worked super hard was doing something wrong. Never mind they had slaves working for them. Still watching, but I see what you mean so far.

  • @lloydpope6238

    @lloydpope6238

    4 жыл бұрын

    Up yours race baiter. People like you are the cry babies of the earth. Not everything that everyone does or puts together must focus on your hate pushing ideas and libtard agenda. Hey, guess what? I'm sure I was in a rest area and of all the literature written on the wall I didn't find one, not one comment in regards to racism. I'm sure you'll have something to say about that. Thank god the writers left plenty of #'s for you to call and complain. Here's one 1-800-Piss-off. Douchebag.

  • @tiggergolah

    @tiggergolah

    4 жыл бұрын

    This documentary wasn't about the Civil War or slavery, however, I personally would like to have seen at least a discussion of slavery and the range of attitudes towards it amongst the Scots-Irish. Most Scots-Irish were yeoman farmers or middle class, not wealthy plantation owners. Many Scots-Irish saw no sense in fighting to preserve slavery since they didn't own slaves themselves. This is why the Scots-Irish in western Virginia seceded from Virginia during the Civil War, to become West Virginia and remain in the Union. Also, your view of politics in the South is obviously not from experience. People here are fiercely pro-Union. My family alone have men from every generation who have fought to preserve and protect it in every generation from the War of Independence until today. My brothers and I have all served in the military, and all of us have been deployed overseas, with four stints in Iraq between us.

  • @tiggergolah

    @tiggergolah

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@catherinewylie6959 Not in my southern family. We're descended from Scots Irish, and I guarantee you we were raised to work hard from dawn to dusk six days a week. Work hard, pray hard, play hard.

  • @tiggergolah

    @tiggergolah

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually it does cover, albeit briefly, the issue of slavery and the Civil War at about 37:00. Perhaps you didn't watch the whole video before making your blanket statement?