Plantation

Ireland: Propag anda and Plantations (British Library)

The Plantation of Ireland (BBC radio)

A. First English plantations

"persuasion" > plantation

Mary I (r. 1553-1558)

     Leix and Offaly > Kings and Queens Cos

     anglicization

B. Munster plantation

Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603)

security and profit

rebellion # 2: Munster Rebellion (1570s-1583)

Earl of Desmond

overseas colonization

Humprey Gilbert
Walter Ralegh
Richard Hakluyt, Discourse on Western Planting

plantation of Munster

4000-12,000-acre land grants  

Edmund Spenser

settlers in Munster

religious dimension

colonization and evangelization

Anglican bishops

Trinity College (1592)

C. The Nine Years War (rebellion # 3: O'Neill Rebellion (1595-1603))

Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone

Red Hugh O'Donnell

Earl of Essex

Lord Mountjoy

James VI and I [Tudor succession issues]

Kinsale, Munster (1601)

Treaty of Mellifont (1603)

Flight of the Earls (1607)

D. The Ulster Plantation [Plantation of Ulster (BBC)]

Lowland Scotland [map]

Armagh, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Cavan, Donegal

Conditions to be observed. . .

Derry > Londonderry

lowland Scottish migration

transformation of the Ulster landscape

 

Tudor family tree