We The People

Details

Location

United States of America

Year

2018

Date

Length

1hr 06min 00sec

Audio

sound

Format

colour

Source

USBF

Courtesy

Doubleband Films, Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund

Rights Holder

Doubleband Films, Northern Ireland Screen

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Description

We The People explores the impact that Ulster-Scots emigrants had on different aspects of American culture, life explores the impact that Ulster-Scots emigrants had on different aspects of American culture, life and politics, including their role in the framing of the US Constitution. 

This documantary focuses on the experiences of the mainly Presbyterian, Ulster-Scots farming families who began to arrive in Boston from the 1700s onwards.  It travels to a whiskey distillers in Virginia, a log cabin building in Rockbridge County, a musical jamboree at Floyd country store and the McGlohon Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina to hear a reading by playwright Robert Inman. 

The programme looks at the impact President Andrew Jackson – whose parents were from Carrickfergus. He had a difficult relationship with the Washington establishment and had a populist style of politics – something that may explain part of his appeal to President Donald Trump.

 

Credits

Narrator:

Bríd Brennan

Contributors:

Frances Stead Sellers
Dave Saunders
Warren R Hofstra
Jim Webb
Dr Peter Gilmore
Anne McClung
Dr Beth Shalom Hessel
Dr Lindsay Chervinsky
Dr Joseph Moore
Billy Walker
Patrick Griffin
Robert Inman

 

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