Reading List

These books are excellent references to the Settlement period; The Hamilton Manuscripts and The Montgomery Manuscripts are the only primary sources available. These have been republished by the Ulster-Scots Agency and are available on facsimile, text-searchable PDF format for £10.00. Please contact us to order your copy.

T K Lowry (ed.),
The Hamilton Manuscripts
(Belfast, 1867)

Rev George Hill (ed.),
The Montgomery Manuscripts
(Belfast, 1869)

Cyril Falls,
The Birth of Ulster
(London, 1936)

John Harrison,
The Scot in Ulster
(Edinburgh & London, 1888 - reprinted by Books Ulster and the Ulster-Scots Academy, Bangor, 2004)

James Barkley Woodburn,
The Ulster Scot, his History and Religion
(London, 1914)

Rory Fitzpatrick,
God’s Frontiersmen – the Scots-Irish Epic
(London, 1989)

Philip Robinson,
The Plantation of Ulster 
(Dublin & New York, 1984)

M Percival Maxwell,
The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James 1
(London, 1973)

E. M. Griffith,
Ulster – the Founding Fathers
(Belfast, date unknown but likely to be 1980s. Published by Resource Educational Publications c/o Indaprint, 21 Finwood Park, Belfast)

Ian Adamson,
The Identity of Ulster
(Bangor, 1982)

Dr M W Heslinga,
The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide
(Netherlands, 1975)

James Webb,
Born Fighting
(New York, 2004)

Raymond Gillespie,
Colonial Ulster – the Settlement of East Ulster 1600 - 1641
(Cork, 1985)

Harry Allen,
The Men of the Ards
(Donaghadee, 2004)

Brian J Orr
As God is My Witness
(Maryland, 2002)

Helen Meehan
Inver Parish In History
(Donegal, 2005)

ATQ Stewart
The Narrow Ground, Aspects of Ulster 1609 - 1969
(London, 1997)

John Stevenson
Two Centuries of Life in Down, 1600 - 1800
(Belfast, 1920)

James Godkin
The Land War in Ireland, A History for the Times
(London, 1870)

John Shedden-Dobie
The Church of Dunlop,
(Morishill, 1884)

Victor Treadwell
Buckingham and Ireland 1616-1628: A study in Anglo-Irish Politics
(Dublin, 1998)

Footnote:
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