Plantations

Question 1

Plantations

Answer 1

Plantation is the colonisation, or settlement, of immigrants

Question 2

The pale

Answer 2

the area surrounding Dublin under the direct control of the English Crown.

Question 3

Anglo Irish

Answer 3

descendants of the Anglo-Normans who invaded Ireland in the twelfth century.

Question 4

Gaelic Irish

Answer 4

the Gaelic chieftains who followed Irish law, known as Brehon law

Question 5

Brehon laws

Answer 5

Gaelic Irish laws dating back as far as the Iron Age

Question 6

Surrender to regrant

Answer 6

Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Irish rulers were to surrender themselves and their lands to Henry VIII, and he would grant their land back to them along with an English title

Question 7

Undertakers

Answer 7

men who undertook (agreed) to do as they were told with the land given to them

Question 8

Servitors

Answer 8

or Scottish soldiers who had fought for the Crown

Question 9

Loyal Irish

Answer 9

native Irish who had stayed loyal to the Crown during the Nine Years War

Question 10

Penal laws

Answer 10

Laws that suppressed the status of Catholics in Ireland