- 428 pages
- English
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About this book
In this vivid account, the author punctures some generally held assumptions: despite slaughter and famine, the province on the eve of the Plantation was not completely depopulated as was often asserted at the time; the native Irish were not deliberately given the most infertile land; some of the most energetic planters were Catholic; and the Catholic Church there emerged stronger than before. Above all, natives and newcomers fused to a greater degree than is widely believed: apart from recent immigrants, nearly all Ulster people today have the blood of both Planter and Gael flowing in their veins. Nevertheless, memories of dispossession and massacre, etched into the folk memory, were to ignite explosive outbreaks of intercommunal conflict down to our own time. The Plantation was also the beginning of a far greater exodus to North America. Subsequently, descendants of Ulster planters crossed the Atlantic in their tens of thousands to play a central role in shaping the United States of America.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Preface
- Maps
- Time-Line
- 1. ‘A prince’s purse and power must do it’: Elizabeth and Gaelic Ulster
- 2. La Jornada de Irlanda
- 3. Mellifont
- 4. British colonisation begins: Derry, Coleraine, Belfast and Newry
- 5. ‘Civilizinge of those rude partes’: Down and Antrim
- 6. The Flight of the Earls and O’Doherty’s rebellion
- 7. The ‘Printed Book’: Planning and justifying colonisation
- 8. ‘Great things move slowly’: The Plantation of Ulster begins
- 9. The Londonderry Plantation
- 10. ‘Not a more discontented people in Christendom’: The native Irish and the plantation
- 11. Progress and problems
- 12. Rebellion
- 13. Reconquest and recovery
- 14. Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Images
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About the Publisher