Both were spelt the same until around 1870 when cheap whiskey produced in Scotland using the new Coffey stills flooded the market. Ironically enough the still although invented in Scotland had been...
They are better known as Ulster Scots in the UK. In America there is a tendancy to over emphasise the Irish influence and that has led to the name Scotch-Irish. It actually refers to the Scots who...
I consider myself Scots-Irish , but from the other way around as the explanations below. I was born in Scotland but from Irish immigrant grand-parents. I consider myself Scots ( not Scotch , that...