This is the first comprehensive study of plantations in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses that this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland.
1. Spenser Sets The Agenda 2. The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland 3. The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice 4. Plantation in Ireland 1603-22: Theory and Practice 5. The Politics of Plantation, 1622-1641 6. The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland 7. Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response 8. The Irish Insurrection of 1641
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