HILL, George. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the commencement of the seventeenth century, 1608-1620.

A MONUMENTAL WORK

Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, 1877. Quarto. pp. xii, 622, 1. Modern half maroon morocco, lettered in gilt. Ex lib with neat small circular stamps. A very good copy of the rare first edition.
The Plantation of Ulster has had a deep influence on the development of Irish society, and its religious and political consequences are still very relevant to modern Ireland. The contents of this volume may be described in general as a compilation from State Papers relating to the Plantation. As a complete account of how it was caused, planned and carried out, this work is accurate and authoritative, and it has not yet been superseded by any later work. With chapters on: Ulster before the Plantation; Orders and Conditions of Plantation; The Project of Plantation; Doubts and Delays; The Commissioners of Plantation at Work; Results and Arrangements; Grants and Grantees; The Londoners’ Plantation; Pynnar’s Survey. The words of Thomas Davis are as appropriate today as when he wrote them over one hundred and fifty years ago:
What matter that at different times our fathers won this sod
What matter that at different shrines we pray unto one God
In fortune and in name we’re bound by stronger links than steel
And neither can be safe nor sound but in the others weal.

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