Irish Plantation

Question 1

The first settlers to ever inhabit Ireland arrived from Scotland ..

Answer 1

• Around 8000BC

Question 2

Immigrants from Europe started settling in Ireland

Answer 2

Around 4000 BC

Question 3

The Celts or Gaels only arrived around

Answer 3

600 BC

Question 4

Ireland became catholic

Answer 4

Around 432 AD when Patrick set up the first Christian missions in the country.

Question 5

The Vikings invasions

Answer 5

In 795 AD

Question 6

The Anglo-Norman

Answer 6

In the middle of the 12th century completed the work started by the celts.

Question 7

Ireland is divided into 2 countries now

Answer 7

• The south is an independent republic know as EIRE, its Gaelic name. It’s capital Dublin
• And north - Ulster

Question 8

EIRE formed of 3 provinces

Answer 8

• Munster
• Leinster
• Connacht

Question 9

The North is called Ulster — it is made up of 6 countries

Answer 9

• Antrim
• Down
• Armagh
• Fermanagh
• Tyrone
• Derry / Londonderry

Question 10

Sir Edward Poynings

Answer 10

First lord deputy appointed by Henry VII assembling the so-called poynings’ parliament on 1 December 1494

Question 11

Poynings’ Law (1494)

Answer 11

• known as the Statute of Drogheda
• this law required that the Irish parliament could not meet or psss legislation without prior approval from both : Irish and English privy Councils and the English monarch.
  It marked the beginning of direct English rule over Ireland during the Tudor period.

Question 12

Ireland growing importance

Answer 12

Only region around Dublin, known as «the Pale» was under direct English control.

Question 13

Catholic discrimination

Answer 13

Irish catholics were heavily discriminated against with punitive taxes. Exclusion administrative and political power, angering the Irish population.

Question 14

Stuart dynasty and the plantation policy

Answer 14

James I introduced the plantation of Ulster, a colonization policy that dispossessed Irish catholics of their land to establish Protestant colonies.

Question 15

Official conversion of the Church of England to Protestantism

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Under Edward VI then re-enacted under Elizabeth I was a more serious concern than invasion for catholic Ireland.
with the conversion had some many new laws to discriminate against catholic Recudznts of England.

Question 16

Recusant

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Name given to the Catholics who had refused to attend the Established Chruches set up throughout the country by Elizabeth I.

Question 17

The plantation policy

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Consisted in dispossessing the native Catholic owners of their land to give it to Protestant settlers.
- the plantation of Ireland started even before Elizabeth I but James I turned it into a Articles of Plantation

Question 18

Articles of Plantation

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In 1609
An act that made it all lawful.
Passed by James I

Question 19

The plantation policy began with a war against

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O’Neill clan led by Hugh O’Neill who defeated along with his allies.
This defeat led to the «Flight of the Earls» where many Irish nobles fled or were captured.

Question 20

The plantation

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Was both political and territorial, enforced through war and the removal of Irish landowners.

Question 21

During James I’d reign over (numbers )

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200,000 protestants, mainly Scottish Presbyterians and English anglicans settled in Northern Ireland as part of the plantation process.

Question 22

By the late of 18th century only 5% Irish land

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Ramained catholics hands with 95% controlled by Protestants

Question 23

The old English establishment

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In Ireland refers to descendants of English settlers from the 12th century or earlier.
While of English origin many had been in Ireland for generations, becoming wealthy landowners with power and influence.

Question 24

The term « Old English»

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Is used to distinguish this wealthy social class from native Irish, despite their long standing presence in Ireland.

Question 25

Irish rebellion (response to Charles’ father’s plantation policy

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• In October 1641
• the Irish Catholics wanted to have their revenge of the English Protestant Parliament that had stolen their land.

Question 26

La date de la confédération de Kilkenny et sous quel roi ?

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Sous Charles I
In October 1642

Question 27

Explique the confederation of Kilkenny

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The old English establishment also ceased the opportunity to try to impose the confederation of Kilkenny to demand the recognition of their religion, the restoration or their land, and an independent Irish parliament.

Question 28

Civil war

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The first civil war in English history opposed the king and parliament.

Question 29

Battle of Drogheda

Answer 29

• September 1649
• Drogheda, north of Dublin
• Cromwell’s forces massacred catholic defenders. survivors were forced to flee south of the River Shannon or be executed.

Question 30

Tension is building (1908 - 1916)

Answer 30

• 3 groups that embodied Irish nationalism
• John redmond took the leadership of the Irish parliamentary party (IPP) in 1900
• Arthur Griffith founded the Sinn Fein party in 1905 = political nationalism
• the physical force nationalism was embodied by the Irish republican brotherhood (IRB). The fenians and the IRB was founded by America.
• the volunteers also, were supporters of a more forceful approach to national issues.