A report on Ulster and Plantation of Ulster

They were generally the Protestant descendants of colonists from Great Britain.

Today, the former generally see themselves as British and the latter generally see themselves as Irish, while a Northern Irish or Ulster identity is claimed by a large minority from all backgrounds.

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region.

The county was one of those 'planted' during the Plantation of Ulster from around 1610 onwards.

The Flight of the Earls in 1607 largely completed the destruction of Gaelic Ireland and left the way open for the Plantation of Ulster, which established a large Protestant population in the north.

Among the most important septs were the O'Neills (Uí Néill) in central Ulster (Tír Eóghain), flanked to their west by the O'Donnells (Uí Dhomnaill); the O'Byrnes (Uí Bhroin) and O'Tooles (Uí Thuathail) in County Wicklow; the Kavanaghs (Uí Chaomhánach) in County Wexford; the MacCarthys ((Uí) Mhic Chárthaigh) and O'Sullivans (Uí Shúilleabháin) in County Cork and County Kerry; and the O'Brien (Uí Bhriain) lordship of Thomond in County Clare.

Led by Felim O'Neill, the rebellion began on 23 October and although they failed to seize Dublin Castle, within days the rebels occupied most of the northern province of Ulster.

The biggest was the Plantation of Ulster, which utilised estates confiscated from the northern lords who went into exile in 1607.

County Londonderry (Ulster-Scots: Coontie Lunnonderrie), also known as County Derry (Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster.

The county is home to a number of important buildings and landscapes, including the well-preserved 17th-century city walls of Derry; the National Trust–owned Plantation estate at Springhill; Mussenden Temple on the Atlantic coast; the dikes, artificial coastlines and the bird sanctuaries on the eastern shore of Lough Foyle; and the visitor centre at Bellaghy Bawn, close to the childhood home of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.

The name was changed from Derry in 1613 during the Plantation of Ulster to reflect the establishment of the city by the London guilds.

In spite of it being the second city of Northern Ireland (and it being the second-largest city in all of Ulster), road and rail links to other cities are below par for its standing.

The war was fought in all parts of the country, but mainly in the northern province of Ulster.

This marked the end of Gaelic Ireland and led to the Plantation of Ulster.

The Flight of the Earls took place in September 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and about ninety followers, left Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe.

Some historians argue that their flight was forced upon them by the fallout from the Tudor conquest of Ireland, others that it was an enormous strategic mistake that cleared the way for the Plantation of Ulster.

The main plantations took place from the 1550s to the 1620s, the biggest of which was the plantation of Ulster.

In the 1570s, there was an attempt to colonize parts of east Ulster, which had formerly been part of the English Earldom of Ulster.

Ulster Protestants (Protastúnaigh Ultach) are an ethnoreligious group in the Irish province of Ulster, where they make up about 43% of the population.

Most Ulster Protestants are descendants of colonists who arrived from Britain in the early 17th century Ulster Plantation.