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  Plantation - LoveToKnow 1911
An important part of the plantation was the settlement of the county of Coleraine by the corporation of the city of London.
Attacks on the settlers were followed by reprisals, and the plantation may fairly be regarded as one of the causes which led to the terrible massacre in Ulster in 1641.
During Elizabeth's reign a scheme for the plantation of Munster was considered, and under Charles I.
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 About the Ulster-Scots
Ulster Scots is a term used primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Plantation settlements were confined to the Province of Ulster, in the counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Donegal, Cavan, Fermanagh and Derry.
The primary purpose of the plantation scheme was to populate the northern counties of Ireland with loyal British subjects, to counterbalance the native Irish.
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 Ulster - LoveToKnow 1911
ULSTER, a province of Ireland occupying the northern part of the island.
Ulster (Uladh) was one of the early provincial kingdoms of Ireland, formed, according to the legendary chronicles, at the Milesian conquest of the island ten centuries before Christ, and given to the descendants of Ir, one of the sons of Mileadh.
Interprovincial wars frequently altered its boundaries, notably in 332 when the three Collas, sons of Eochaidh Doimhlein, conquered the land between the river Boyne and Lough Neagh, which became a separate kingdom under the name of Uriel (Oriel or Orgial).
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 Plantation of Ulster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Plantation of Ulster was a planned process of colonisation which took place in the northern Irish province of Ulster during the early 17th century in the reign of James I of England.
The plan for the plantation was determined by two factors, one was the wish to make sure the settlement could not be destroyed by rebellion as the first Munster Plantation had been.
In the 1640s, the Ulster Plantation was thrown into turmoil by civil wars that raged in Ireland, England and Scotland (See Wars of the Three Kingdoms).
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 The Ulster Scots - Free Genealogy Pages on Ulster Ancestry.Com [ Page 2 : The Ulster Plantation ]
At the time of the Plantation of Ulster, Scotland was experiencing the Reformation and Presbyterianism was established as her official faith.
Their presence in the Ulster Plantation was an encouragement to the rest of the settlers.
Historians have estimated that the population of Ulster was approximately fifty thousand by the year 1620 and nearly one hundred thousand by 1640.
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 History of Irish Conflict
Ulster is one of four provinces in Ireland.
Before the plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century, Ulster was the most Gaelic part of Ireland and had successfully resisted English colonial ambitions.
The sum of the Plantation was the introduction of a foreign community which spoke differently, worshipped apart, and represented an alien culture and way of life.
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 Ulster-Scots Agency
The "Articles of Plantation" instructed that "every undertaker will build a stone or brick house thereupon (his land), with a strong court or bawne about it and all the said undertakers shall draw their tenants to build houses for themselves and their families near the principal bawne for their mutual defence or strength".
The Moneymore model village consists of dwellings from the Plantation era in cottages, manor house, bawn, church, mill etc. The lay-out of the village and the style of the buildings derives from Raven's 1622 map of Moneymore.
The Plantation era is of clear importance and deserved interest to Ulster-Scots, being the period when many of the ancestors of Ulster-Scots came to Ulster.
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 About the Ulster-Scots
In addition, there were a small number of native Ulster Irish who had intermarried with these planter families as well as the descendants of English who had settled in Ulster during the plantation scheme.
(In that same year an Ulster emigrant organised the first Presbyterian church in America.) William Of Orange, a Dutch Prince, was invited by the British ruling class to become their King in response to the ever despotic actions of James II (particularly his intolerance toward freedom of religion).
But the Ulster Scots contribution was particularly strong in the political field and in the battle for independence and liberty.
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 Ulster Ancestry : A Sample of Irish Family Names
The Ulster Gilmores were a very powerful family controlling large territories in the baronies of Antrim Castlereagh and Lecale before the Plantation.
John Millar of Renfrewshire was an early undertaker in the Plantation and settled in the Parish of Magheraboy in County Fermanagh.
Andrew Stewart Lord Ochiltree of Ayreshire was one of the nine Scottish chief undertakers of the Plantation and was granted lands at Mountjoy in Tyrone.
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 The Migration of the Scots-Irish
Other plantation efforts had been attempted in Ireland, but this was to be the largest and most effective, the results of which can still be seen in the news headlines today.
One common occurrence in both Ulster and Scotland was the “holy fair.” This was a large outdoor gathering marked by preaching of the hellfire and brimstone variety, a call for personal conversion as a mark of salvation, and meditation.
Society in the Ulster plantation consisted of a small landholding elite class that held economic and political supremacy over a large, poor body of tenants.
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 Long term consequences of the Plantation
So far as the legacy of the Plantation is concerned, it is important to bear in mind that the official Ulster Plantation covered the modern counties of Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan and Donegal.
The principal ingredient that makes Ulster different is that the Plantation in Ulster was followed at the end of the 17th century, in the 1690s, and again continuing into the Early years of the 18th century, of a significant further influx of Scottish people.
And Ulster was the principal place of outlet for people who were fleeing effectively from the collapse of an agricultural economy, and that dramatically transforms the population balance, particularly in the Ulster north-east.
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 Scots Irish and Irish Lines and the Plantation of Ulster
The possibility of the Plantation of Ulster was created with the Nine Years War (1594-1603), and the subsequent "Flight of the Earls" of Northern Ireland in 1607.
Thirty years after the formal advent of the Plantation of Ulster, the English themselves were embroiled in Civil War.
Whereas the Ulster Plantation had confiscated land principally from the Gaelic-Irish, the Cromwellian Plantation took land largely from 'Old English' Catholics (who had joined the rebellion hesitantly and only to show their support for the king), and transferred it to Cromwell's soldiers (in lieu of back pay) and to investors in the war effort.
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 Ulster Scots-Irish
The assignment of lands to Scottish undertakers, was to have a permanent effect on the character of Ulster.
Economic distress in the Lowlands and economic opportunities in Ulster were the predominant causes for migration during the first fifty years after the plantation scheme had begun in 1610.
The substantial leaders of Ulster had put their primary economic faith in manufacture and trade, and their success in life now depended upon two unknown and uncontrollable factors: the arbitrary acts of the English Parliament and the ups and downs of the foreign market.
www.irishgenealogy.com /surnames/migration-scotch-irish.htm   (1848 words)

  
 Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies
The honourable Irish society and the plantation of Ulster (Chichester, Phillimore, 2000).
Gillespie, R., ‘The Presbyterian Revolution in Ulster, 1660-1690', in Sheil, W.J. and Wood, D (eds.),The Churches, Ireland and the Irish: Papers Read at the 1987 Summer Meeting and the 1988 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Oxford, 1989), pp 159-70.
Hunter, R.J., ‘The Settler Population of an Ulster Plantation County', Donegal Annual, vol.
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 This Island we live on - Ulster Plantation
One lasting effect of the Ulster Plantation is shown by the names of people and places, which reflect those of England.
During the plantation this all changed as the settlers were used to towns in England and Scotland.
Although the Plantation of Ulster was a reasonable success for the government, it was a huge success for the planters.
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 Ulster Plantation
Ulster had always been the strongest of the four provinces in the struggle against English attacks and domination and for that very reason the English now devised a scheme to make it the weakest.
Other Ulster chieftains like O’Hanlon in Armagh and McMahon in Monaghan had joined in the rebellion but, following Cahir’s death and the failure of the effort, their lands too were declared confiscate.
Of Cahir’s death and the Plantation of Ulster, the “Four Masters” wrote as follows: - “He was cut into quarters between Derry and Cuil-mor, and his head was sent to Dublin to be exhibited; and many of the gentlemen and chieftains of the province, too numerous to be particularised, were also put to death.
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 Redwine Productions Presents America's Other Irish - The Scotch-Irish
By the time of the Revolutionary War, immigrants from Ireland's northernmost province of Ulster and their progeny comprised an estimated one-sixth of the European population in the colonies.
Yet Ulster's Irish people and the Lowland Scots had a centuries-old history of interaction and cross-cultural ties that mitigated the animosity.
Emboldened by an age-old tradition of rebellion and the Ulster philosopher Francis Hutcheson's democratic precepts that found their way into the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary politics was apparently embraced by a majority (though by no means all) of Ulster Irish colonists.
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 Ulster-Scots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This flag is the flag of the Ulster Unionist Party and it is incorrect to refer to it as the official flag of Northern Ireland and de facto civil flag.
The Scottish population in Ulster was further augmented during the subsequent Irish Confederate Wars, when a Scottish Covenanter army was landed in the province to protect the settlers from Irish Catholic forces.
With the enforcement of Queen Anne's 1703 Test Act in Ulster, which caused further discrimination against non-Anglicans, considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots migrated to the North American colonies throughout the 18th century (450,000 people from Ireland (approximately half of whom were Ulster Presbyterians) settled in the USA between 1717 and 1770 alone).
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 ulster-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
* Plantation: From 'The Plantation of Ulster,' by the Rev. George Hill (Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson and Orr, 1877).
The lands conveyed in these grants were generally too extensive to be properly managed; and, therefore, the whole plantation was swept away in years after its commencement.
In the year 1612, Davys framed an Act abolishing this distinction, but the prohibition against the Irish practically continued; for, by these Ulster Plantation "Orders and Conditions," the English and Scotch were forbidden to convey any lands taken from the natives, back to the native Irish.
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 Ulster-Scots Agency
Before the Plantation of Ulster, two Ayrshire Scots - James Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery - pioneered a massive migration from the Lowlands of Scotland to Co Antrim and Co Down.
Their success inspired King James VI of Scotland and 1 of England in the Virginia Plantation of 1607 and his Ulster Plantation of 1610.
The success of their settlement in Antrim and Down must have reassured King James VI and 1 of his Plantation in Virginia (at Jamestown) in 1607, and, without doubt, inspired the Scottish Plantation of the rest of Ulster which started in 1610.
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 Ulster-Scots
Although these Reivers were not the mainstay of the settlement their influence was enormous and there is little doubt that those organising and funding the settlement felt the risks of their inclusion were outwayed by the benefits.
The plantation was focused on the land known as Upper Clannaboye (modern day North Down) with the first sizable settlements begining at Donaghadee and Newtown (Newtownards).
What is unquestionable is the fact that the Ulster accent and speech is very noticeably different from that of Southern Ireland, indeed Ulster is the only area outside of Scotland where Scots has survived as a spoken language/dialect.
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 OEDplantation.html
(1811) 247 The plantation of churches and the propagation of the gospel.
Pref., Ireland and the Plantations in America..are a Burthen to England.
As the labour was chiefly on the plantations in sense 5, the phrase tended to be associated with that sense.
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Ulster is a province in North-Eastern Ireland, most recently settled in the 17th Century by Scottish/Scots-Presbyterians (Reformed, Protestants)who came with the Plantation scheme.
Ulsters Celtic heritage is both unique and yet related to the outside influences of the neighbouring island of Britain and Southern Ireland.
Ulster gets its name from the Gaelic Tir Ulad, or Uladhstir in the Norse tongue, which literally means "Land of the Ulaidh".
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 The Plantation of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In the plantation of Ireland you will see the seeds planted that resulted in the Great Famine*, the partition** of 1921, and the current state of 'the Troubles';*** in the North of Ireland today.
Though the laws affected adherents of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (who were concentrated in Ulster), their principal victims were the wealthier, landed members of the Roman Catholic Church, whose co-religionists comprised over three quarters of the people on the island.
With the defeat of Catholic attempts to regain power and lands in Ireland, the new Protestant Ascendancy sought to insure dominance with the passing of a number of laws to restrict Catholics and Dissenters.
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 BBC News | Northern Ireland | Assembly appoints Ulster Scots translator
Ulster Scots is a language which is closely related to Lowland Scots and was imported to Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century.
Ulster Unionist deputy leader John Taylor is not so keen on the allocation of what he sees as scarce resources to Ulster Scots or the Irish language.
According to Ulster Scots activist Nelson McCausland, growing numbers are showing an interest in the language and more needs to be done to encourage this enthusiasm.
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