01.12 - Laboratory of Empire
Vast tracts of land in Ulster, confiscated from Irish Earls, are planted with British settlers
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
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Show Notes
Both before and after the Flight of the Earls territory in north Ireland was forfeited to the Crown and purchased by investors. Even while the burgeoning colony of Virginia was facing its earliest challenges, it was in Ulster that most government attention was focused. Money, men, and materials flooded the province, determined to make this latest plantation effort a success. The experiences of English, Scots, Welsh and Irish would form the basis of the next two centuries of British colonial expansion.
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In this episode I made particular use of the following publications:
- Kennedy, L. and Ollerenshaw, P. (2012).Ulster Since 1600. Oxford
- Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ''Civilizinge of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s', in The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
- David Edwards, 'Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603–1641', in The Cambridge History of Ireland: 1550–1730
- J. H. Elliott, Scots & Catalans: Union & Disunion
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