l Success of Plantation: More successful than Laois-Offaly and Munster plantations; spread of English law, language, farming methods; loyal and Protestant population; influence on identity – English and Scottish settlers – Presbyterian and Church of England; Gaelic culture declined; towns centres of law and business, planned with diamond (square); conflicts based on identity – 1641 massacre; Siege of Derry; Battle of the Boyne; conflicts in 19th and 20th centuries; different symbols of identity.
l Pattern of settlement – growth of towns: Early Christian Ireland; Viking; Norman; Plantation towns; 18th-century estate towns.
Review Questions
1. What are the features of town life? 2. What were the similarities and the differences between Viking town life and Norman town life? 3. How did the towns of the Ulster Plantation influence identity? 4. Exam Question
As part of your Junior Cycle history course, you studied a pattern of settlement. (i) Name the pattern of settlement that you studied.
(ii) Identify and explain three examples to show how that pattern of settlement influenced identity on the island of Ireland.
Key Words
Anglicisation Colonisation
Colonist Identity
Medieval times becoming more English in language and culture
where a country takes over another country, spreads its culture and settles its people there
a person who settles in a colony that is under the control of the mother country the characteristics or features that make a person or people who they are centuries between Ancient Rome and the Renaissance