Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Appendices -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: John Moore's Crossing, 1760 -- 1 Atlantic Migration and North America in the Irish Presbyterian Imagination -- Ulster Presbyterian migration to America in the eighteenth century -- Ulster migration at mid-century and America in the Presbyterian imagination -- 2 The Press, Associational Culture and Popular Imperialism in Ulster, 1750-64 -- The press and Ulster Presbyterian imperial consciousness -- The Belfast News-Letter and the provincial press in the north in the mid-eighteenth century -- Absorbing war news in eighteenth-century Ireland -- American geography in Irish newspaper supplements -- Associational culture and America: the ritual of toasting and imperial awareness in Ulster, 1755-63 -- 3 He Never Wants for Suitable Instruments: The Seven Years War as a War of Religion -- Imperial defeat, fasting and national commiseration, 1754-8 -- Imperial victory, thanksgiving and national celebration, 1759-63 -- 4 Sorrowful Spectators: Ulster Presbyterian Opinion and American Frontier Atrocity -- American Indian violence and colonial victimization in the Belfast News-Letter -- American atrocity and the historical memory of Irish Protestants -- The culture of sensibility, Irish empathy and American Indian violence -- 5 'An Infant Sister Church, in Great Distress, Amidst a Great Wilderness': American Presbyterian Fundraising in Ireland, 1752-63 -- American collections in Ireland before the war: Gilbert Tennent and the College of New Jersey, 1754-6 -- American collections after the war: Charles Beatty and the Corporation for the Relief of poor and distressed Presbyterian ministers, 1760-2 -- Irish Presbyterian charity in the eighteenth century: the culture of collection.

The Ulster economy and American fundraising -- Postscript: John Moore's Return and Reflections on America, 1763 -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Bankhurst examines how news regarding the violent struggle to control the borderlands of British North America between 1740 and 1760 resonated among communities in Ireland with familial links to the colonies. This work considers how intense Irish press coverage and American fundraising drives in Ireland produced empathy among Ulster Presbyterians.

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