This was known as the Plantation of Ulster and the English-speaking Protestants who took part were called 'planters'. However the Plantation of Ulster was going to cost a lot of money that the ...

the official Plantation is often seen as independent from surrounding developments... The Plantation of Ulster, promulgated in 1609 by King James I and launched a year later, lasted 15 years.

I used the term "migrant" to refer to settlers from Scotland, who were part of the early-17th century Plantation of Ulster. But he insisted that those who arrived in Ireland during the 17th ...

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 ...

In Ireland, the Scottish Presbyterians who had previously settled in the North of Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster wanted to give support to the Covenanters. Some left Ulster and went to ...

that a stamp will be issued on September 4th to commemorate the Plantation of Ulster. I am dismayed that An Post would consider an event where England colonised this country as being worthy of a ...

I refer to John Waters’s letter (August 13th), excoriating An Post’s decision to release a stamp commemorating the Plantation of Ulster. He compares the release to a hypothetical stamp ...