Ireland, Land Of Two Countries

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of the Island with each other, England became a threat to their sovereignty and customs.
By the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, a military conquest had established English rule over most of the Island, with the principal exemption of the northern province of Ulster. The Ulster clans had succeeded in overcoming Elizabeth's armies. After a long and damaging campaign Ulster was finally under English control. This caused Irelands leaders to flee to the mainland of Europe. Their land was confiscated and divided up to British colonists. By 1703, less than 5% of the land was still in the hand of the Catholic Irish. Native Irishmen were not allowed in town and were banished to the mountains and bogs on the margins of land they had owned before. The Plantation of Ulster was the introduction of a foreign community, which spoke a different language and a different religion. In this time period was the first the Irish Catholics saw of the Protestant religion. This is when the first ...

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