The Plantation of Ulster
The Plantation of Ulster

Author: Jonathan Bardon

Publisher: Gill Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780717147380

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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.

Ulster Since 1600
Ulster Since 1600

Author: Liam Kennedy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0199583110

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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 Catholics Of Ulster
The Catholics Of Ulster

Author: Marianne Elliott

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2002-02-21

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9780465019045

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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.

God, Guns and Ulster
God, Guns and Ulster

Author: Ian S. Wood

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781840675368

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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 Book of Ulster Surnames
The Book of Ulster Surnames

Author: Robert Bell

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909556867

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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.

A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes

Author: Jonathan Bardon

Publisher: Gill

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13:

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"Jonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his book so valuable, however, are the quirky subjects he chooses to illustrate how history really works: the great winter freeze of 1740 and the famine that followed; crime and duelling; an emigrant voyage; evictions. These episodes get behind the historical headlines to give a glimpse of past realities that might otherwise be lost to view." "The author has retained the original episodic structure of the radio programmes. The result is a marvellous mosaic of the Irish past, delivered with clarity and narrative skill." --Book Jacket.