Scottish Migration and Diaspora

Diaspora

One of the most dispersed populations in Europe, by CLEARANCE, by poverty, by imperial service and by choice. NOVA SCOTIA and CAPE BRETON, where Canadian Gaelic was spoken into living memory and is being revived, with oatcakes and ceilidh food; the Carolinas and Appalachia; Otago in NEW ZEALAND, founded as a Free Church settlement, and Dunedin, which is the Gaelic name for Edinburgh; Australia; Ulster and thence America as the Scots-Irish. โš  DIASPORA FOOD CHANGED: Burns Night, shortbread, oatcakes and whisky travelled better than the everyday kitchen, and what is kept abroad is mostly the ceremonial repertoire.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Scots-Irish community documented
  • Cape Breton Gaels community documented

Languages: Scottish Gaelic, English

What is recorded

  • Scottish emigration produced Gaelic-speaking communities in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Free Church settlement in Otago, and the Scots-Irish movement through Ulster to America. What survived abroad is largely the ceremonial repertoire โ€” Burns Night, shortbread, oatcakes and whisky โ€” rather than the everyday kitchen, and diaspora foodways are not assumed to preserve Scottish practice unchanged. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • caused Highland Foodways documented

    The Clearances and the Highland potato famine were major drivers of emigration.

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