Micheál Ó Siochrú is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, DublinÉamonn Ó Ciardha is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster

• 1. Introduction: The plantation of Ulster: ideas and ideologies – Micheál Ó Siochrú and Éamonn Ó Ciardha2. The ‘British’ Crown, the Earls and the plantation of Ulster – Jenny Wormald3. ‘Civilising’ Gaelic Scotland: the Scottish Isles and the Stuart Empire – Martin MacGregor4. Plantation and civil society – Philip Withington5. The City of London and the Ulster plantation – Ian Archer6. Success and failure in the Ulster plantation – Raymond Gillespie7. The Catholic Church in Ulster under the plantation, 1609–42 – Brian MacCuarta8. Randal MacDonnell and early seventeenth-century settlement in northeast Ulster, 1603–30 – Colin Breen9. Educating the colonial mind: Spenser and the plantation – Andrew Hadfield10. Responses to transformation: Gaelic poets and the plantation of Ulster – Marc Caball11. The plantation of Ulster: aspects of Gaelic letters – Diarmuid Ó Doibhlin12. Angling for Ulster: Ireland and plantation in Jacobean literature – Willy Maley13. The Scottish inhabitants of that province are actually revolted: John Milton on the failure of the Ulster plantation – Nicholas McDowellIndex

“this book has much to commend for its breadth of coverage, for its solid performance and for its interdisciplinary approaches.”Allan I. Macinnes, University of Strathclyde, Northern Scotland, 2019