The Ulster Scots people are an ethnic group descended largely from Scottish and English settlers who moved to the north of Ireland during the 17th century. There is an See more

Early development
The first major influx of border English and Lowland Scots into Ulster came in the first two decades of the 17th century. See more

Just a few generations after arriving in Ulster, considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots emigrated to the North American colonies of Great Britain. Between 1717 and 1775, an estimated 200,000 migrated to what became the United States of America. … See more

The North American ancestry of the X-linked form of the genetic disease congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus has been traced to Ulster Scots who travelled to See more

• Anglo-Irish people
• British Americans
• History of Northern Ireland
• History of Scotland See more

• Ulster-Scots Academy
• Ulster-Scots Agency
• The Ulster-Scots Society of America See more