1603-1649***


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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




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                                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.




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                        THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER

                BY THE REVEREND S. A. COX, M.A., T.C.D.




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                        The Plantation of Ulster

    “The truth is, they that gape after poor Irishmen’s lands do what
    they can to have a colour