Ulster Plantation Research Articles

An historical account of the plantation in Ulster at the commencement of the seventeenth century, 1608–1620. By George Hill. Belfast, 1877 Reprinted, with an introduction by John G. Barry pp ix. xi. 623. Shannon: Irish University Press. 1970. £9.50.

An historical account of the plantation in Ulster at the commencement of the seventeenth century, 1608–1620. By George Hill. Belfast, 1877 Reprinted, with an introduction by John G. Barry pp ix. xi. 623. Shannon: Irish University Press. 1970. £9.50. - Volume 18 Issue 70

Historical revision

On 4 September 1607 the two Ulster earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, and the lord of Fermanagh, Cuconnaught Maguire, accompanied by their respective kinsmen, embarked from Lough Swilly for continental Europe. They never again returned to the lands they had striven so hard to hold. Their departure was a tragedy for Gaelic Ireland; their former dependants were left leaderless and unprotected, and what remained of the Gaelic way of life was soon undermined by the plantation in Ulster. The ‘ flight of the earls ’ is one of the black pages of Irish history and the event marks the end of an age.What occasioned this sudden and mysterious departure? Of the many answers suggested almost all have been coloured by prejudice and the picture, consequently, remains clouded. Professional historians, with few exceptions, have shied away from the subject, and have contented themselves with qualified versions of the explanations offered by such writers as Fr Meehan, T. M. Healy, and Seán O'Faoláin. An essay in revision is certainly long overdue.

Towns in the Ulster Plantation

Towns in the Ulster Plantation

The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-41: The City of London and the Plantation in Ulster. By T. W. MOODY, Lecturer in History in the Queen's University of Belfast. (Belfast: William Mullan and Son. 1939. Pp. 487.155)

The Londonderry Plantation, 1609–41: The City of London and the Plantation in Ulster. By T. W. Moody, Lecturer in History in the Queen's University of Belfast. (Belfast: William Mullan and Son. 1939. Pp. 487.155) The Londonderry Plantation, 1609–41: The City of London and the Plantation in Ulster. By Moody T. W., Lecturer in History in the Queen's University of Belfast. (Belfast: William Mullan and Son. 1939. Pp. 487.155. W. C. Abbott W. C. Abbott Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 45, Issue 3, April 1940, Pages 626–627, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/45.3.626 Published: 01 April 1940

The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-41: The City of London and the Plantation in Ulster. By T. W. MOODY, Lecturer in History in the Queen's University of Belfast. (Belfast: William Mullan and Son. 1939. Pp. 487. 15s.)

The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-41: The City of London and the Plantation in Ulster. By T. W. MOODY, Lecturer in History in the Queen's University of Belfast. (Belfast: William Mullan and Son. 1939. Pp. 487. 15s.)

Sir Thomas Phillips of Limavady Servito

Sir Thomas Phillips is not to be found among the worthies of the Dictionary of National Biography, nor is he mentioned in Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography or Crone's Concise Dictionary. He was one of those known in early-seventeenth Ireland as ‘ servitors ’—military men who had fought for the crown during Tyrone's rebellion and established claims on the royal generosity which they expected to have satisfied after the peace. In the Ulster plantation, servitors constituted a separate group among the planters, and some of them thus became the founders of great landed families. In his successful pursuit of forfeited land in Ulster, Phillips is a fair example of the servitor class. Very likely he would have left no more mark on Irish history than many another fellow-adventurer, had he not staked his claim in a part of Ulster that presently became a sphere of interest of the city of London. Within a few years of the Londoner's advent, Phillips engaged them in a controversy which he maintained with almost incredible pertinacity for a quarter of a century, and which, on the eve of his death, ended in a crushing defeat for his opponents.