E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/studiesinirishhi01obri Transcriber’s note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). STUDIES IN IRISH HISTORY, 1603-1649 Being a Course of Lectures Delivered before the Irish Literary Society of London Edited by R. BARRY O’BRIEN Second Series Browne and Nolan, Limited Dublin, Belfast & Cork London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. Stationers’ Hall Court, E.C. 1906 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents PAGE THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER 1 THE REV. S. A. COX, M.A. STRAFFORD PART I.—THE GRACES 69 PART II.—THE EVE OF “1641” 137 PHILIP WILSON, M.A. “1641” 169 ARTHUR HOUSTON, K.C., LL.D. THE CONFEDERATION OF KILKENNY 225 DR. DONELAN, M.CH., M.B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER BY THE REVEREND S. A. COX, M.A., T.C.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Plantation of Ulster “The truth is, they that gape after poor Irishmen’s lands do what they can to have a colour to beg them”—(_State Papers_, _Ireland_, 1610, p. 415). THESE words were written in an appeal for justice, or even the formality of a trial, by one who was betrayed by the English whom he had served. Sir Donnell O’Cahan had left his own people to seek an English alliance, and was rewarded by an imprisonment of nineteen years, without ever being brought up for trial. He was goaded into a just indignation by rumours that reached him in the early days of his imprisonment in Dublin, of Lady O’Cahan’s destitution and insanity, but after a couple of years he was moved to the Tower of London, where he, and other noblemen who were confined because men hungered after their lands, languished away till death gave them release. It will not surprise most of our readers to know that his letters were intercepted and carefully studied with a view to finding something treasonable in them. Truly Ireland’s share in the privileges of Magna Carta has been a small one.