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The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
...Methodists, Quakers and especially Anglicans) accounted for 2% (Kenny, 2000, p. 42). He also points out that about three quarters of the American Irish were of Ulster origin. Overall, this data highlights how Protestant migrants from Ulster, who were predominantly Presbyterian, played an important role in shaping the Irish diaspora in America during the colonial period....