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Comparative/World

Patrick Griffin. The People With No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 244. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

Among the noncanonical "three traditions" of Irish culture, the Anglo-Irish have done best in the literature on the Irish diaspora, as they have been almost completely ignored. The Catholic Irish have been next: the subject of a huge literature, mostly sectarian and blinkered but containing some gems of scholarship. The Ulster Scots (the Scots-Irish of U.S. historiography) have been the worst treated. Either they have been excluded on the basis of their religion from the Irish diaspora texts, or their own material, especially in the United States, has been notable for its narrowness of vision and meanness of spirit. Thus, this small book, really a primer, by Patrick Griffin is a much-needed lifeline. It provides both an explicit conspectus of the Ulster Scots in America and an implicit prospectus of work that needs to be done. That Griffin is able to accomplish this without wasting a word and with tough, sensible interpretations makes his achievement all the more remarkable. . . .

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