Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1975

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Coughlan, Heather T.

Abstract

This thesis examines the historic cause of the conflict in Northern Ireland, the plantation of Ulster in 1610. Ulster opposed English rule but Queen Elizabeth's government crushed resistance in 1603. James I, who succeeded Elizabeth, appeared reluctant to punish the Irish but the flight of the two leading Ulster chieftains persuaded him of their treason. Land was confiscated in six Ulster counties and James's government planted English and Scottish settlers to control Ulster in the interest of England's security. The dispossessed Ulster Irish rebelled in 1641 and massacred thousands of settlers. English and Scottish troops aided the colonists and the war that followed paralleleq England's civil war. Cromwell arrived in 1649 to avenge the massacre, and the Cromwellian settlement left uneasy settlers in control of Ulster with the natives still dispossessed and bitter.

Extent

190 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13761

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