In opposing ‘Year of the Normans’, is Sinn Féin saying it is offensive to celebrate the ancestors of people who made a ...

Anyone who has travelled to the northeast of this country will have noticed the profusion of Israeli flags marking out the boundaries of Loyalist areas.

When I saw images of the homes of immigrant families in Ballymena with loyalist flags placed in their windows to ward off racist mobs, and ...

The great news for Junior Cert students is that much of the exam paper focuses on comprehension skills. Students are asked to ...

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.

“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 ...

For many years the Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights/Justice for the Forgotten has provided advocacy to a number of families in Co Fermanagh who were bereaved as a result of the Northern ...

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.

This book is a welcome addition to the existing large corpus of material on the establishment and development of the plantation of Ulster by settlers from England and Scotland in the early years of ...