Key Words Flashcards
Lord deputy:
The King’s representative in Ireland
Surrender and regrant:
This was a tactic used by Henry viii in ireland. Gaeilic Lords would surrender their lands and promise to use English laws and language and swear an oath of allegiance (loyalty) to the king of England. Then, Henry viii would grant or regrant the land to the Lords along with English titles such as baron or Earl.
The king would remove their land of their behaviour angered him.
Policy of plantations:
When people from one country are sent to another country. They are given land and will live and work there. These people are known as settlers. In Ireland, it was planned that Irish landowners would have their land confiscated and given to English and Scottish settlers.
The pale:
The name given a small area of land around Dublin, which spread from Louth - Kildare and was controlled by the king of England, from the 12th century.
Adventurers
English and Wales men, descended from Norman lords who hoped to make their fortune by getting their hands on land in Munster
Presidents
Men who were given a position by Queen Elizabeth I of imposing or forcing an English language, law and Protestantism.
Old English
People living in the Pale who were loyal to the King (mainly merchants)
Anglo - Irish (Gaeilicised Anglo-Normans)
Descendants of the Anglo - Normans who had invaded Ireland in the 12th century e.g. Fitzgeralds of Kildare, the Butlers of Ormond/ Kilkeny and the Fitzgeralds of Munster.
By 1500 they adopted both Irish and English way of life and was independant from the English Crown.
The lord deputy was from an Anglo - Irish familly in 1468
Succession
Land was now passed directly from father to son leading to an increase in wealth in certain families unlike Brehon law where they chose as a group who would have the land
Undertaker:
A man who received an estate in a plantation and undertake (agreed) to follow the rules of the plantation
The flight of the earls
The event when the Gaeilic lords in Ulster fled Ireland in 1607 after the 9 years war to different countries such as Italy and Spain in Europe.
Gaeilic Irish:
The Gaeilic chieftains who followed Irish law (didn’t recognise the English king as rular of Ireland)
E.g. of powerful families (clans) O’Neils of Tyrone, O’Donnells of Donegal and the MacCarthys of Cork
Brehon laws
Gaeilic Irish laws dating from the Iron Age
The plantations
The name given to the period of Irish history when, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Irish land was confiscated by the English Crown and them colonised by the British settlers
