11. Plantations

• plantation - when irish land was confiscated and given to English settlers
• old English - people in the pale loyal to the king
• anglo-irish - descendants of anglo normans
• Gaelic irish - people who followed irish laws - Brehon law
• Brehon law - a system of law that was used in Ireland and was based on custom and tradition
• surrender and regrant - the surrender of land to the king and it will be given back with an English title
• succesion - when land is passed on from father to son
• planters - the new settlers during the plantation
• presidents - men who imposed English law
• undertakers - men who undertook to do as they were told with the land they were given
• the flight of the earls - when the irish chiefs fled to Europe in 1607
• servitors - soldiers who served in the nine years war and fought for the crown
• loyal irish - native irish who attend loyal during the nine years war to the crown
• penal laws - laws that suppressed the status of cathotlics In ireland
• Laois Offaly

  • queen mary
  • failure because was too small
• Munster

  • queen Elizabeth
  • failure because was too large
• ulster

  • king James
  • succes
  • donegal, derry, tyrone, antrim, fermanagh, cavan
• 1537 act of supremacy - made king Henry viii supreme head of church
• henrys aims for ireland

  • introduce the reformation
  • reduce the Gaelic lords power
• planters would

  • spread English customs and laws
  • defend the land from the irish
  • follow the crown
• the Pale/ old english

  • Dublin area
  • loyal to the crown
  • spoke english
  • followed English customs and laws
  • practiced arable framing (crops)
• Brehon law

  • divorce allowed
  • fines as punishment
  • a wife kept her own name and wealth
• English law

  • divorce not allowed
  • heavy jail sentences and death penalty
  • a wife took her husbands name and gave her wealth