The Scot in America and Ulster-Scot

"The Ulster-Scots Classics" is a new series of books from Books Ulster and the Ulster-Scots Academy. The third in the series, the renowned "The Scot in America and the Ulster Scot" by Whitelaw Reid (originally published in 1912) is again available, in paperback.This costs now £7.49 with postage, packagingand handling included.
 
  "We're delighted with the response to theUlster-Scots Classics", says Derek Rowlinson, of Books Ulster.  "The first volume - 'The Scot in Ulster' has sold out, the second one 'Sons of the Sod' has sold very well and this is a superb third volume. It's one of the most important Ulster-Scots books ever published so we're delighted to be making it available.

Books Ulster has the assistance of Ards Borough Council with this volume, and support of Ulster-Scots groups: Ulster-Scots Academy, Ulster-Scots Language Society andUlster-Scots Heritage Council."

  Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) was one of the USA' s foremost journalists and political figures. His grandfather emigrated from Ulster to the USA in the late-1700s. Reid ran as Republican candidate for Vice-President in 1892, alongside President Benjamin Harrison.

  "The Scot in America and the Ulster Scot" was published during Reid's term as Ambassador to Britain from 1905-1912.

  "Reid delivered a lecture on The Scot and Ulster-Scot in America as the opening address of the season to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution on November 1, 1911. The content and character of the Edinburgh lecture led to an invitation from the Presbyterian Historical Society to deliver a similar lecture in Belfast in 1912.
Later that year the Edinburgh and Belfast addresses were published as The Scot in America and the Ulster-Scot."

  The News Letter editorial of March 29 1912 observed: "The lecture on 'The Ulster-Scot' which Mr Whitelaw Reid delivered last night in the Assembly Hall afforded an intellectual treat to a very large audience. Originally delivered in Edinburgh, the lecture embraced the part which the Scot as well as the Ulster Scot played in the making of the great republic of which Mr Whitelaw Reid is the distinguished representative at the Court of St James.  It is matter of proper pride to us that those of our stock who went from Ulster to America  proved so worthy of the race from which they sprang. The race at home is still as virile as ever, still as passionately attached to the principles of civil and religious liberty."

  The cover uses the American painting "Spirit of 1776", encapsulating the Ulster contribution to the US War of Independence.

The Scot in America and the Ulster-Scot can be ordered by visiting www.booksulster.com or telephone Books Ulster on 028 9147 031