A History of Ulster

A History of Ulster
Author: Jonathan Bardon
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

A comprehensive account of the province, spanning nine thousand years of social, political and economic life.

The Plantation of Ulster

The Plantation of Ulster
Author: Jonathan Bardon
Publisher: Gill Books
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011
Genre: English
ISBN: 9780717147380

The Plantation of Ulster followed the Flight of the Earls when the lands of the departed Gaelic Lords were forfeited to the Crown. Bardon's history is the first major, accessible survey of this key event in British and Irish history in a lifetime.

God, Guns and Ulster

God, Guns and Ulster
Author: Ian S. Wood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9781840675368

This unique book gives a clear and often shocking insight into the history of the Loyalist paramilitaries. Written by Ian S Wood, a leading authority on Ulster Loyalism, the book begins with a brief look at the early history of Ulster. It traces its rich and varied evolution as a famously rebellious part of Ireland and the emergence of secret agrarian societies. It explains the significance and iconography of figures such as King William of Orange and events like the Battle of the Boyne and shows how these events have shaped and formed a collective Loyalist mentality.

The Catholics Of Ulster

The Catholics Of Ulster
Author: Marianne Elliott
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2002-02-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780465019045

Few European communities are more soaked in their bloody history than the Catholics of Ulster, but the Catholic and Protestant communities' faulty understanding of their past has had ruinous effects on the lives of its inhabitants. Marianne Elliott has written a coherent, credible, and absorbing history of the Ulster Catholics. The whole sorry sweep of the province's history is covered-from its early medieval origins to the tenuous but holding Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and formation of an all-Ulster legislature.

The Book of Ulster Surnames

The Book of Ulster Surnames
Author: Robert Bell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781909556867

The Book of Ulster Surnames has over 500 entries of the most common family names of the nine county province of Ulster, with reference to thousands more. It gives the meaning and history of each name, its original form, where it came from - Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales or France - and why it changed to what it is today. The index is an essential asset to the publication - providing nearly 3,000 surnames and variant spellings, cross-referenced to the main listing. The book includes notes on some famous bearers of the name and where in Ulster the name is now most common. This new edition by the Foundation also includes an article by the author on the Riding Clans of the Scottish Borders, many members of which came to Ulster during the Plantation. The result is a reference book which details much about the history of the Ulster Irish as well as the Scottish and English who arrived from the seventeenth century onwards, and is packed with surprising insights into the origins of a complex, turbulent people.

Ulster Since 1600

Ulster Since 1600
Author: Liam Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199583110

Surveys the history of the province from the plantations of the early seventeenth century to partition and the formation of Northern Ireland in the early 1920s, and onwards to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. A major contribution to the history of Ireland and to Ulster's contested place in the British and the wider world.

The 'Mere Irish' and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641

The 'Mere Irish' and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641
Author: Gerard Farrell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319593633

This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as some historians have argued) the early-modern state’s consolidation of control over its peripheral territories. Farrell also demonstrates that plantation Ulster did not see any significant attempt to transform the Irish culturally or economically in these years, notwithstanding the rhetoric of a ‘civilising mission’. Challenging recent scholarship on the integrative aspects of plantation society, he argues that this emphasis obscures the antagonism which characterised relations between native and newcomer until the eve of the 1641 rising. This book is of interest not only to students of early-modern Ireland but is also a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history and indeed colonial studies in general.