Causes

Question 1

What were the demands? 1/2

Answer 1

Catholic religion to be practiced openly

COI governed by the pope

Irish priests/religious men set at liberty

Officers appertaining to the council and law of Ireland be Irishmen

Question 2

What were the demands? 2/2

Answer 2

Hostages released

Irish men travel freely

Religious houses and church lands to be restored to the Catholic churchmen

Statutes against the promotion of Irishmen be repealed

Question 3

What did Elizabeth need to do?

Answer 3

Secure Ireland against Spain and prevent the Spanish from using it as a base

Question 4

What was the role of religion?

Answer 4

Plantations saw the establishment of protestant churches

Clans remained loyal to the Catholic Church

Jesuits and seminarists were present

Tyrone attended protestant services with the English governor

Question 5

What were the motives of the rebellion?

Answer 5

Achieve independence

Expel the English colonists and government

Question 6

What did Elizabeth do?

Answer 6

Made no attempts to extend influence into Ulster - garrisons didn’t extend there

Question 7

What was the role of Elizabeth?

Answer 7

Elizabeth was funding protestant rebels in the Netherlands and war with Spain meant that money was short and expenditure was low

Question 8

What was the role of the Lord Deputy?

Answer 8

Fitzwilliam was old and made no attempts to establish order in Dublin

Factional disputes in governance ensured, allowing clan warfare to develop, with castle-rading and executions

Question 9

What was the role of Arthur Grey?

Answer 9

His executions alienated Palesmen

Question 10

What did Tyrone make use of?

Answer 10

Nationalist sentiments

Question 11

What was the role of political ambitions?

Answer 11

Since Henry VIII became King, the English had overseen a rapid increase in the control of Ireland

Frustrated clan leaders and Irishmen who wanted self-governance

Question 12

What was Tyrone’s background?

Answer 12

Educated as a royal ward and attached to Leicester’s household

Question 13

What was the role of Tyrone’s grievances?

Answer 13

Had fought against the Geraldine Rebellion in 1580 and had executed the remained of the Spanish Armada as they landed in Ireland

Trained army in Ulster

Aided local English garrisons between 1593 and 1594

Elizabeth followed a policy of non-interference and didn’t formally recognise O’Neill’s service

Switched sides

Question 14

What was Tyrone denied and what was the consequence?

Answer 14

An executive commission to govern Ulster

He feared for the security of his position as Earl

Question 15

What was enforced?

Answer 15

Compositions (taxes instead of military service and purveyance)

Question 16

What was there an increase in?

Answer 16

Plantations

Question 17

What did the English do?

Answer 17

Increased rents

Claim lands to which they weren’t entitled to

Bribed juries to obtain favourable verdicts

Question 18

What was the case by 1590?

Answer 18

The three southern counties of Ireland were under military occupation

The English were encroaching upon the O’Neill estates of the Earl of Tyrone in Ulster

Question 19

What was established and what did it symbolise?

Answer 19

Major colonies of plantations in Connaught and Munster

Irish subjugation under Irish rule

Question 20

What was the impact of the plantation system?

Answer 20

Greatly threatened the Irish chieftains own systems of land control

Trust lost in English deputies

Question 21

What was a consequence of the Munster and Geraldine rebellion?

Answer 21

Attainted lands had been given over to English men

Anglo-Irish lords rallied in opposition