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1916 Lecture December 6, 2024 Ulster Plantation

This lecture is a joint effort by Pat Brady and Jim McGetrick. The two speakers take a retrospective look at some important historical events on both sides of the Atlantic in the 17th century that had profound effects on Ireland and the territory that eventually became the United States. The main theme of lecture is the "Ulster Plantation" which truly established England's colonization of Ireland at the beginning of the 17th century. This "planting of the colonies" was the English justification for a policy that determined that lands worked for centuries by native Irish farmers should be confiscated and the Irish natives replaced by English and Scot settlers. This land grab, along with the resultant economic, religious, and cultural persecution reverberates to this day in Ireland. At approximately the same time, Queen Elizabeth authorized the establishment of similar colonies in North America. Land grants were awarded to English Colonists for land that was already occupied by Native Americans. These parallel plantations, though unique in geography and the nature of the displaced people forced from their land, reveal a hubris on the part of the English ruling class which had truly devastating effects on the indigenous people of Ireland and North America. The lecture concentrates on how Ireland became collateral damage from England's early modern period for quest for Empire - a fate she shared with others a half a world away.