The Irish Are Coming

Learning Outcomes

 

As a result of working on this programme students should have knowledge and understanding of:

  • the reasons why Irish people emigrated to Scotland
  • the results of this in terms of the present population of Scotland
  • living and working conditions for Irish migrants
  • relationships between Scots and Irish
  • Protestant and Catholic migrants and relations between them
  • some of the historical sources from which evidence has been derived



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