Extensive research on the subject matter was made possible through grants from the Ulster-Scots Agency in Northern Ireland, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the North Carolina Humanities Council, and the South Carolina Humanities Council. Additional sources of underwriting, particularly from organizations within the United States, are presently being sought to augment a script-writing grant from the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) and to move the project forward into the production stage.