In the decades after the Kildare rebellion, the priority of the Tudor regime was to secure its control over Ireland. A concrete indication of this was revealed by the growth of cartography, as the English administration sought to quantify their knowledge of the island that they wished to bring under firmer control. New and often beautifully detailed maps of Ireland were created throughout the sixteenth century by English cartographers
Dönem: Erken Modern
Ulster Plantasyonu
His ‘plantation policy’ in Ulster, involving the dispossession of native Irish Catholic landowners and their replacement by thousands of families from England (many of them in and around Londonderry settled by a consortium of Londoners) and (even more) from south-west Scotland, can also be counted a rather heartless short-term success, though its consequences are – all too grimly – still with us.