Our Most Priceless Heritage: The Lasting Legacy of the Scots-Irish In America
Billy Kennedy is author of the highly-acclaimed series, The Scots-Irish Chronicles. The series has recovered the multifacted contributions  of the Scots-Irish to American frontier culture and politics.  Kennedy’s previous eight books have been eagerly read both in the United States  and the United Kingdom as the most throrough treatment of America’s Scots-Irish heritage.     Kennedy lives in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.  He has been a leading Norhtern Ireland journalist for 35 years. He currently serves as  senior journalist with the Belfast News Letter, the primary morning newspaper in Northern Ireland and the oldest English newspaper in the  world, founded in 1737. On numerous visits to the southeastern United States, Billy lectures on the subject of the Scots-Irish diaspora at  universities, colleges, and historical and genealogical societies.  Billy has a keen interest in soccer and a love for American country music. He  is married and has one daughter.