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26/02/2004
UU and Trinity Dublin co-host Ulster Scots conference
The University of Ulster and Trinity College Dublin are joining forces this Saturday to host a one-day conference looking at the intellectual influence of Ulster Scots in Ireland and America.
The conference will bring together an international panel of scholars including Patrick Griffin, whose recent book, The People of No Name, has opened up this subject.
The day will begin with a micro-history of Presbyterian experience in Ireland, focusing on the formative experiences of the Ulster Scots community in south Ulster.
The remainder of the day will explore how this society transplanted to America and endeavoured to shape that political culture in its image.
Dr Billy Kelly from the Institute for Ulster Scots Studies said: “The day’s events will interrogate the regional identity and international influence of the Ulster Scots. Often cited, but little studied, the Ulster Scots, and their emigrant brothers, the Scots-Irish, had a profound influence over the shaping of the American Revolution. In particular, the seminar will focus on the intellectual influence of Frances Hutcheson on the American Revolution and the development of a democratic structure of government.
“One school of recent scholarship has read the Revolution as a religious upheaval in which the Presbyterians of America overthrew their Anglican superiors.”
Dr Kelly said the event represented an important first collaboration between the Institute for Ulster Scots Studies at UU and the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies in Trinity College Dublin.
Tracing the Enlightenment: The Ulster Scots in Ireland and America will take place on Saturday 28th February in Trinity College Dublin.
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The conference will bring together an international panel of scholars including Patrick Griffin, whose recent book, The People of No Name, has opened up this subject.
The day will begin with a micro-history of Presbyterian experience in Ireland, focusing on the formative experiences of the Ulster Scots community in south Ulster.
The remainder of the day will explore how this society transplanted to America and endeavoured to shape that political culture in its image.
Dr Billy Kelly from the Institute for Ulster Scots Studies said: “The day’s events will interrogate the regional identity and international influence of the Ulster Scots. Often cited, but little studied, the Ulster Scots, and their emigrant brothers, the Scots-Irish, had a profound influence over the shaping of the American Revolution. In particular, the seminar will focus on the intellectual influence of Frances Hutcheson on the American Revolution and the development of a democratic structure of government.
“One school of recent scholarship has read the Revolution as a religious upheaval in which the Presbyterians of America overthrew their Anglican superiors.”
Dr Kelly said the event represented an important first collaboration between the Institute for Ulster Scots Studies at UU and the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies in Trinity College Dublin.
Tracing the Enlightenment: The Ulster Scots in Ireland and America will take place on Saturday 28th February in Trinity College Dublin.
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