http://www.dublincastle.ie/history4.html
Account of the rebellion of Silken Thomas from the powerful Fitzgerald family.
http://www.timescapes.org.uk/pages/results.asp?ts=6&tm=10
This site designed for students contains a collection of short articles about the different plantations – many of the articles have good accompanying maps.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro53.shtml
One page examination of the plantation of Laois and Offaly.
http://www.discoverlismore.com/walterraleigh.shtml
Biography of Sir Walter Raleigh – the most famous person to receive land during the Munster plantation.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/uk/ireland/irelandintro.html
Examination of visual and written sources from the period of the plantations called Ireland: Propaganda and Plantations. Each source is explained to help you understand them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/elizabeth_ireland_01.shtml
Five-page article from the BBC website about the policies of Queen Elizabeth called Turning Ireland English.
http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/earls/
Excellent Irish Times supplement about the Flight of the Earls that looks at the background, the event and its consequences.
http://www.timelines.tv/ipC02.html
Very interesting collection of short video clips about plantations in Ireland from Timelines tv. It sets the plantations in the context what was happening in America at the time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/voices/voices_ulster.shtml
Website accompanying a BBC Radio 4 programme on the Plantation of Ulster – you can listen to audio files from the radio programme divided by topic. There is also a good introductory one-page background history of the plantation.
