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The Museum's Irish Farm dates to the 1700s and originally stood in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in that part of Ireland traditionally known as Ulster.  This farm represents the type of homes and landscapes left behind by the thousands of people who emigrated from Ulster to Great Britain's North American colonies in the 1700s.  These people from Ulster, who came to be known in America as the Scotch-Irish, were a key group in the settlement of America's colonial frontier.

Suggested readings for the Irish Exhibit