The Honourable The Irish Society: still in business

In 1608–9, through a mixture of threats and promises from James I, the City of London become involved in the most planned and orderly of the various plantation schemes in […]

Visualising the Plantation:mapping the changing face of Ulster

The archives An estimated 370 manuscript maps of Ulster survive, dating from roughly 1567 through to 1636, in fifteen repositories throughout Britain and Ireland. In Britain these include the National […]

An archive of British imperialism: Irish Society records at the London Metropolitan Archive

Disappointingly little remains of the original manuscripts dating from the Plantation’s early decades in this collection, owing in part to a fire in London’s Guildhall in 1786. Nevertheless, the inclusion […]

Reluctant colonisers: the City of London and the plantation of Coleraine

After the Nine Years’ War, pardons given to the Ulster Irish lords who had risen in revolt against the Crown suggest a power vacuum in the northern province and an […]

Dispossession and reaction: the Gaelic literati and the Plantation of Ulster

During the first decade of the seventeenth century, Ulster, traditionally a bastion of Gaelic society and culture, was transformed in a relatively short time by the military defeat and subsequent […]