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T H E A N D T H E H O R E H O O G O OG R H A N I ST I CAL AN D T N L I CAL M N AP , \V I T H SO M E R E FE R E N C E T O S C O TIA MAJO R AN D S C O TIA M I N O R TO W H I C H I S A D D E D A C H A PTER O N HOW THE I RISH CAME AS BUI LD E R S O F THE NATION ?‘ By H N O N C L I N A N O . J H E H I n su ranc e ss s . s s State Commi ioner of New Hamp hire Member , the New Hamp hire Hi torical - - . s A s s D Society Trea urer General , merican Iri h Hi torical Society . Late epartment s . Commander , New Hamp hire , Grand Army of the Republic Many Y s s s s ear a Director of the Getty burg Battlefield A ociation . C O N C O R D , N . H . THE A MERICAN—I RIS H HISTO RIC AL SO C IE TY f v v C . 5 u ¢ ‘ u V x J w u v v b M 9 b b y b v V u v J u y y v H g J v u v g u V A WO RD AT THE START . This monograph on T/z e [ms/z 550 1s a n d T/z e Scale/z ' ' ” ‘ Jrz s /z was origin ally prepared by me for T/z e Grcw z z ze M on t/fl . y, of Concord , N H It was published in that magazin e in three successive in stalm ents which appeared , respectively , in the issue s of Jan uary , F ebruary and I 8 8 8 . March , With the exc eption of a few minor changes , w the monograph is n o reproduced as originally written . ' The pap er here presented o n H o w t/z e [M s /e Ca m e a s B u ilde rs of T/z e N a tio n is based on articles con tributed ' P z lo z 1 8 0 by me to the Boston in 9 , and at other p eriod s , and on an articl e contri buted by me to th e Boston Sunday Glo be I 1 8 . of March 7 , 95 S u le m e m m ’ f Fac ts a n d Co m m e n t th e The pp , forming o f conclusion of this pu blication , will be found special interest and value in conn ection with the preceding section s of th e work . H N I N E H A N . J O C . L N H I 1 0 2 . Concord , . , July , 9 T H E I R I S H S C O T S A ND T H E “ S C O T C H I R I S H . A STUD Y o f peculiar interest to all o f N ew H amp shire o f birth and origin is th e early hi story thos e peopl e , w h o f , di fering from th e settlers around them , were first “ - c alled Iri sh by their English n eigh bors , Scotch Irish by “ ” som e of their descendants , and later on Scotch by f . o . writ ers lik e Mr . Morrison Windham , N H “ A c cording to th e latter , Th e ignoran ce of other cl asse s ' ” in re latio n to them and th eir history was un bounded . n o t d of They were called Irish , when a rop Irish blood ” f . o flowed in their vein s They were S cotch blood , pure and simpl e ; th e blood o f Erin did n o t flow commingl ed in w h o ~ o n e the vein s of the hardy exil es , , hundred and sixty a o fo r and more years g , struck a settlem ent and a hom e in “ this wintry land . Then l et every d escend ant of the first settl ers distin ctly remem b er that his an cestor s were th e Scotch , that h e is of Scotch d escent , and that term s ’ ’ ‘ ‘ - - h so Scotch Irish and Scotch Englis , far as th ey imply a f dif erent than Scotch origin and d escent , are a perversion f h o truth and fal se to istory . “ ’ o f o ld Many h ave heard what th e lady said , There s h . ff w ere St Paul and I di er , and , like that argumentative , kindly old soul , there is where Mr . Morrison and history ff . di er The American of English origin , who is fortun ate in tracing his lin eage to th e Mayflower and Plymouth Rock , is not content to stop th ere . H e goe s back to n o t Britain , and even then is satisfied until h e goe s to th e 6 his cradle of race in G ermany , the home of the Saxon ; so o t o th e would the true Scot g back Highlands , and from t o M s thenc e across the home of race , Ireland , th e true his Scotia of history , th e sourc e of hi s language , cu stoms , mann ers , laws , n am e and religion . That this is not more gen erally known is n o t the fault of history but of prej u n o t i fo r e dic e , and after all surpris ng , wh re among modern n ation s can b e found a peopl e more vilifi ed and more p er s e c u ted m isre re , and whose early history h as b een more p s ented or studiously avoided th an th at o f th e ancient I r ish ? Tim es and th eir d escendants A criticism of th e London , o n b quite recently , on a work Ireland y a young English o f stud ent , was very s evere b ecause the writer went back Tim es o f the Norman invasion , which the said was no n o t to possible interest t o Engl ishmen . It is un common find occasionally a child ashamed to own its parent , but that does not by any m ean s sever th e relation ship ; and s o writers lik e thos e m entioned , proud of their all eged ro b o f S cotch origin , cannot , even if th ey would , Erin her an cient n am e and appropriate it to them selves without A s o f giving credit were it i s due . well might the p eopl e t o N ew England attempt tak e to themselves the nam e , fam e and glory o f th e older England and d eny it to th e latter . H . o f . Cochrane in his H istory Antrim , N , speaks in — glowing terms o f his Highland ance stors o f their u n c o n u e rable o f fo e q , haughty n atures , th eir bravery to the , and o f their kindn ess to the poor , but repudiates the idea their ’ ’ is s C r o r n O Co rc o rans It probable that the name Cochrane derive from O o c a . The were of the C lan Cian of Ormond (now the County Tipperary) in the Iris h Province of s M ac C o r o r ns s D e s i s Mun ter . The c a are al o mentioned in Ormond and e ( Tipperary and W' ’ ’ aterford ; as chiefs of the Clan Rooney An Iri sh form of O Corcoran w as O Co rc rain . h as z h ran k C o e . The name been anglici ed Corcoran , g , Coc ran , etc The late Gen John Y w as e s s Cochrane , of New ork , a memb r of the American Iri h Hi torical Society and a d s f W e cendant of a patriot o ficer of the American Revolution Hon . Bourke Cockran , the s s is re resent anv e . di tingui hed orator , another p of the clan b Irish origin ; ut a standard Scotch work , the writers in ' which bein g o n the ground ought to know wh ereof they ’ 1 1 sp eak , tells the story as follows (vol . , p . 3 3 3 , Cham ber s , “ ’ En cyclopm dia) : The ‘ Scots were the Celtic tribes in S cotland , dwelling in th e western and more mountainou s districts north of th e Forth and th e Clyde , who , when it b ecame necessary to distingui sh them from the T eutoni c b th e o f inha itants of th e low country , re ceived n ame s ’ ’ ‘ ‘ o f the Wild S cots , Th e I rishry Scotland , and more ’ ” recently the Scotch H ighlanders . St . Bridget , it also “ m entions , was held in great reveren ce in Scotland , and was regard ed by th e D ou glas se s as their tutelary saint .

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