THE SCOT IN ULSTER

ULSTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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The other and deeper mark made on Irish history was the beginning of that repression of Irish industries which was to come into full force in Queen Anne's time. The first blow struck was an Act which forbade the exportation of cattle from Ireland to England; [1] the second, when by the fifteenth of Charles II., Ireland, which up to this time in commercial matters had been held as part of England, was brought under the Navigation Acts, and her ships treated as if belonging to foreigners. [2]

The Revolution of 1688 was accomplished almost without bloodshed in England; in Scotland the struggle really finished at Killiecrankie; in Ireland it was long and bloody. Once more it was the old race difference--a cleavage in race made more bitter by that terrible land question, the creation of the great settlements of Elizabeth and James's time, and of the yet more violent settlement of Cromwell. The Revolution in England of necessity brought civil war to Ireland. The greater portion of Ireland remained loyal to James II.; the north at once declared for William III. The Protestants of Ulster universally took arms, but their raw militia had little chance against the army which Tyrconnel, the Lord-Deputy, had got together in support of James II. [3] Rapidly he overran Ulster, until only at two points was the cause of Protestantism and of William of Orange...continue reading »

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[1] Leland's History of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 448.

[2] Macpherson's History of Commerce, vol. iii. p. 621.

[3] Reid's History, chap. xix.

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The Scot in Ulster:
Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster

by John Harrison

1888