A number of scholars argue that Protestant Scots migrations to Ireland in the seventeenth century were precipitated by overpopulation and economic hardships, especially those that struck South- western Scotland. Cultural geographer Barry Aron Vann challenges that assessment. He unravels the complex assemblage of push and pull factors that played roles in seventeenth-century Scottish migrations. "Space of Time or Distance of Place" is an apt title for his book. Those words were part of a letter written by the Scottish born and educated Rev Robert Blair (1593-1666) to his Glasgow University...
A number of scholars argue that Protestant Scots migrations to Ireland in the seventeenth century were precipitated by overpopulation and economic har...
