Qualla: Plantation of Ulster https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/p/plantation-of-ulster-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Plantation of Ulster https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster Plantation of Ulster: Introduction https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster/ Photo credit Public domain. On 14 September 1607, ninety-nine Irish chieftains and their retinues - the lords of Tyrone and Tyrconnell among them - boarded a single ship at Rathmullan on Lough Swilly and sailed for the European continent. They believed they would return with Spanish reinforcements. They never came back. The Flight of the Earls, as Irish history would name it, left almost an entire province leaderless. James VI of Scotland, two years into his new role as James I of England, recognised what had landed in his lap. By 1609, the official plantation had begun: half a million acres of confiscated Gaelic land, six counties of Ulster (Armagh, Cavan, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Donegal and Londonderry), redistributed to English-speaking Protestant settlers from Scotland and northern England. It would prove the most successful and most consequential of all the plantations of Ireland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/p/plantation-of-ulster-wp/gcep-plantation-of-ulster-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Plantation of Ulster: Ulster Before the Settlers https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster/ Photo credit Public domain. Before the plantation, Ulster was the most Gaelic of Ireland's provinces - the least anglicised, the least urbanised, the most independent of the English Crown. There were almost no towns. The economy ran on cattle, with families practising creaghting, a form of transhumance that...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/p/plantation-of-ulster-wp/gcep-plantation-of-ulster-ulster-before-the-settlers.mp3 0:06 2 full Plantation of Ulster: Chichester's Design https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster/ Photo credit Public domain. Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, originally planned something smaller - settlers around military posts, large grants to native lords who had backed the Crown. Then in 1608 Sir Cahir O'Doherty of Inishowen launched a brief but devastating rebellion, capturing and burning...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/p/plantation-of-ulster-wp/gcep-plantation-of-ulster-chichesters-design.mp3 0:06 3 full Plantation of Ulster: The Border Reivers https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster/ Photo credit Public domain. One of the more remarkable strands of the plantation involved the Border Reivers - the raiding families of the Anglo-Scottish frontier whose feuds had made the marches between England and Scotland ungovernable for centuries. James saw a way to solve two problems at once: shipping...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/p/plantation-of-ulster-wp/gcep-plantation-of-ulster-the-border-reivers.mp3 0:06 4 full Plantation of Ulster: What Happened to the Irish https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster/ Photo credit Public domain. The plantation decreed that the native Irish be displaced. In practice this happened only partially. About 300 Gaelic landowners who had taken the English side in the Nine Years' War were rewarded with grants. The majority of ordinary Gaelic Irish remained in their native areas b...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/p/plantation-of-ulster-wp/gcep-plantation-of-ulster-what-happened-to-the-irish.mp3 0:06 5 full Plantation of Ulster: 1641 and Its Aftermath https://qualla.com/plantation-of-ulster/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. On 23 October 1641, the smouldering resentment ignited. Felim O'Neill, who had himself been a beneficiary of plantation land grants, led an Ulster Catholic uprising. His followers - many of them sons and grandsons of dispossessed families - turned on the British settlers. About 4...

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