Book Reading by Karen McCarthy 'The Other...

29 January 2013

The Ulster-Scots Agency is delighted to announce that Author of 'The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals who Made America', Karen McCarthy will be joining us for a book reading on Thursday 7th February, 2013.

Join Karen for a special book reading of The Other Irish - The Scots-Irish Rascals who Made America - part of her Northern Ireland Book Tour (Sponsored by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs) at the Ulster-Scots Agency's Visitor and Information Centre, 68-72 Great Victoria Street, Belfast at 2pm on Thursday 7^th February, 2013.

After Karen's talk she will sign copies of  The Other Irish - The Scots-Irish Rascals who Made America.  Copies will be available at the Ulster-Scots Agency's Visitor and Information Centre.

About the book:

Davy Crockett, Mark Twain, and Neil Armstrong have in common? They are descendants of feisty Scots-Irish immigrants who traveled the ocean to the new world in the early 1700s.

Rebellious, independent, and fervently religious . . . thousands of immigrants with grand dreams sailed from Ireland's northern harbors to the new world at the end of the 1700s and tamed the American South. Now Karen McCarthy reveals the many contributions these renegade Other Irish have made since they arrived, including settling the wild frontier, running moonshine into auto racing history, and launching a new world order.

Publisher: New York: Sterling (November 1, 2011), Hardcover, 384 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1402778285

Visit www.karenmccarthy.eu/books.html for further information.

All welcome. Free entry.