The Plantation of Ulster, promulgated in 1609 by King James ... Although it is given considerable prominence in history books from the viewpoint of the Crown it was only a mixed success.

The Plantation of Ulster, promulgated in 1609 by King James ... Although it is given considerable prominence in history books from the viewpoint of the Crown it was only a mixed success.

The Ulster Plantation was implemented with considerable co-operation from the Ulster Irish - at least from those who had disliked the aggrandising policies of Hugh O'Neill. The Irish elite ...

“The cross-border nature of the project reflects the importance of the Ulster plantation to the shared, but also diverse, history of the island of Ireland," said Dr Richard Fitzpatrick, Hunter ...

Young feels coming to terms with events like the Ulster plantation clashes with a “nationalist” view of history which paints Scotland as a land of romantic rebels. Young’s critique doesn’t ...

1606-1630: King James I orders the plantation of Ulster, at that time the least ... majority rather than the nine counties of the historic province. This is to ensure a built-in unionist majority ...

What do we see? The new Ulster of the Plantation. It has a double interest. First, there is naturally the interest attaching to the Plantation itself. It was an extraordinary experiment.

Dr John Young, an expert in Scottish and Irish history, said that there had ... ignorance of period in the 17th Century dubbed the “Ulster Plantation”, which saw tens of thousands of Scots ...