One of the things about the Scots coming to Ulster in 1609 / 1610, was that they received grants of Plantation lands in the teeth of opposition of many English servitors in Ireland. The English ...

They saw the plantation as a means of controlling, anglicising and ‘civilising’ Ulster. Following partition of 1921 the rulers of the north of Ireland acted swiftly to prevent the emergence of ...

Although it overlapped with an actual pan-Celtic organization (the Celtic Association, founded in 1888), there was little in the way of substantial collaboration between Irish and Scottish Celtic ...

English and Scottish planters << Back to article Long term consequences - Dr. Raymond Gillespie: Hear audio version: It would be wrong to try and remove from any understanding of the Plantation ...

The religious aspect of the Plantation is very interesting. I’ll speak first of all of the Catholic native Irish. You know, it just wasn’t that the Catholic native Irish were dispossessed of ...