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Flashcards by Emmet McDonald, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emmet McDonald
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Plantation | taking land from rebels and handing it over to loyal subjects of the Crown. That way, the land would be peaceful. |
| Papist | Someone Loyal to the Pope |
| Queen Mary I | Ordered the Laois-Offaly Plantation in 1557. Died 1558 |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ordered the Munster plantation in the 1580s. Died 1603. |
| King James I | ordered the Ulster Plantation in 1609. |
| The Pale | strip of land from Bray to Dundalk that was controlled by the English. |
| Black Rent | money demanded by the Gaelic Irish in return for a promise not to attack farmers from the Pale. |
| Undertaker | a man who received land in the Plantation and promised to follow the rules of the Plantation. |
| The Treaty of Mellifont | treaty which, in 1603, brought the Nine Years War to an end. |
| The Flight of the Earls | the Gaelic Lords of Ulster left Ireland in 1609 rather than be ruled by the English. |
| Servitor | a man who received land in the Ulster Plantation in return for serving in the English army during the Nine Years War. |
| Londonderry | town in County Derry given to the London Craft Guilds by King James I. |
| Bawn | defensive stone yard built by planters during the Ulster Plantation. |
| Adventurer | A person who adventured to Ireland who believed himself to be related to the Normans or who financed the Plantation and received land in return. |
| The Confederation of Kilkenny | alliance of Old English and Gaelic families that rebelled in 1640 to defend Catholicism in Ireland. |
| New Model Army | force of 12,000 led by Oliver Cromwell in Ireland. Used to crush the Catholic rebels in Drogheda and Wexford in the 1640s. |
| The Act of Settlement | law which ,in 1652, punished rebels by execution and confiscation of land. |
| Tories | Evicted Gaelic Irish natives who begged and attacked planters in the Ulster Plantation. |
| Battle of Kinsale | A battle that, in 1601 in Kinsale, Co. Cork, led to the end of the Nine Years War. |
| Oliver Cromwell | Lord High Protector of England in 1649, started the Cromwellian Plantation in the 1650s. |
| Ulster Plantation Counties | Donegal, Derry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan and Armagh |
| King Phillip II | The Spanish king who disproved of King James I and Anglicanism, who sent a Spanish fleet to aid the Nine Years War. |
| King Henry VIII | The monarch who used 'Surrender and Regrant' to try and win control over the Gaelic Irish |
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