The plantation of Ulster

Ideology and practice

Micheál Ó Siochrú, Eamonn O' Ciardha

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780719095504
  9780719086083
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526158925
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

This book is the first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. The pivotal importance of the Plantation to the shared histories of Ireland and Britain would be difficult to overstate. It helped secure the English conquest of Ireland, and dramatically transformed Ireland's physical, political, religious and cultural landscapes. The legacies of the Plantation are still contested to this day, but as the Peace Process evolves and the violence of the previous forty years begins to recede into memory, vital space has been created for a timely reappraisal of the plantation process and its role in identity formation within Ulster, Ireland and beyond. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field offers an important redress in terms of the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to include the native Catholic experience, and in so doing will hopefully stimulate further research into this crucial episode in Irish and British history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Series editors’ preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: the plantation of Ulster: ideas and ideologies
• 2 The ‘British’ crown, the earls and the plantation of Ulster
• 3 Civilising Gaelic Scotland: the Scottish Isles and the Stewart empire
• 4 Plantation and civil society
• 5 The city of London and the Ulster plantation
• 6 Success and failure in the Ulster plantation
• 7 The Catholic Church in Ulster under the plantation, 1609–42
• 8 Randal MacDonnell and early seventeenth-century settlement in northeast Ulster, 1603–30
• 9 Educating the colonial mind: Spenser and the plantation
• 10 Responses to transformation: Gaelic poets and the plantation of Ulster
• 11 The plantation of Ulster: aspects of Gaelic letters
• 12 Angling for Ulster: Ireland and plantation in Jacobean literature
• 13 ‘The Scottish inhabitants of that Province are actually revolted’: John Milton on the failure of the Ulster plantation
• Index