> > >Can you give me a quick lesson on why the Scotts and the English went to >Ulster? > Here is a couple of paragraphs from Seumas MacManus', Story of the Irish Race, from his Chapter 47, The Ulster Plantation: "It was the Sixth James of Scotland who, after he became James I of England, perpetrated this crime. The land-greedy and gain-greedy among his Scotic fellow-countrymen, and among the English, were the instigators. Upon Ireland the covetous eyes of such people were ever turned. The flight of the Earls proved a welcome excuse for the wholesale robbing of the clans. It was a very simple matter to find that all the Northern chiefs had been conspiring to rebel - against England. Hence they were "traitors' - to England! And naturallly their estates were forfeit and for distribution among James' hungry followers. "The English Lord Lieutenant, Sir Arthur Chichester, and the Attorney General, Sir John Davies, were the instruments, under James, for giving effect to the great Plantation. The lands of the six counties of Donegal, Derry (then called Coleraine), Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan and Armagh - four million acres - were confiscated. (The lands of the three remaining Ulster counties, Antrim, Down and Manoaghan were bestowed upon Britons at other times.) The true owners, the natives, were driven like wild fowl or beasts, from the rich and fertile valleys of Ulster, which had been theirs from time immemorial, to the bogs and the moors and the barren crags - where it was hoped that they might starve and perish...." -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Thanks so much Pat. The more to genealogy than just names & dates to me-I like to know the history. Trudy -----Original Message----- From: Pat Connors [mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:51 AM To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IRELAND] Re:Ulster plantation > > >Can you give me a quick lesson on why the Scotts and the English went to >Ulster? > Here is a couple of paragraphs from Seumas MacManus', Story of the Irish Race, from his Chapter 47, The Ulster Plantation: "It was the Sixth James of Scotland who, after he became James I of England, perpetrated this crime. The land-greedy and gain-greedy among his Scotic fellow-countrymen, and among the English, were the instigators. Upon Ireland the covetous eyes of such people were ever turned. The flight of the Earls proved a welcome excuse for the wholesale robbing of the clans. It was a very simple matter to find that all the Northern chiefs had been conspiring to rebel - against England. Hence they were "traitors' - to England! And naturallly their estates were forfeit and for distribution among James' hungry followers. "The English Lord Lieutenant, Sir Arthur Chichester, and the Attorney General, Sir John Davies, were the instruments, under James, for giving effect to the great Plantation. The lands of the six counties of Donegal, Derry (then called Coleraine), Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan and Armagh - four million acres - were confiscated. (The lands of the three remaining Ulster counties, Antrim, Down and Manoaghan were bestowed upon Britons at other times.) The true owners, the natives, were driven like wild fowl or beasts, from the rich and fertile valleys of Ulster, which had been theirs from time immemorial, to the bogs and the moors and the barren crags - where it was hoped that they might starve and perish...." -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/