Distinction Quote by Anonymous

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because…

— Ishmael Reed

My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated…

— Keith Hernandez

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't…

— John Shelton Reed

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

— Matthew McConaughey

“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")”

— Algernon Blackwood

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

— Ivor Cutler

“As one observer noted, “In traveling across America, the Scots-Irish have consistently blown my mind as far and away the most persistent and unchanging…

— J.D. Vance

“Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They…

— Ryan Hackney

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

“Until they became the British Empire’s greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter…

— James Webb

“The blood feuds of today’s Ulster— and their legacy in the journey of America’s Scots-Irish— have their roots in a decision made in 1610…

— James Webb

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral…

— Anonymous