Key Terms Flashcards
The Plantations
Irish lands confiscated by the king could be sold or rented to loyal English settlers.
Old English
People in the Pale who were loyal to king.
Anglo Irish
Descendants of the Anglo-Normans who had invaded Ireland in the twelfth century.
Gaelic Irish
The Gaelic chieftains who followed Irish laws, known as Brehon laws.
Brehon Laws
Gaelic Irish laws going as far back as the Iron Age
Surrender and regrant
The Old English and the Gaelic Irish rulers were to surrender themselves and their lands to Henry VIII, and he would grant their land back to them along with an english name.
succesion
when land was passed on from father to son in the English.
Planters
The new settlers during a plantation
Presidents
Men who imposed English law, the English language and the protestant religion
Adventurers
men who claimed to be descendants of the early Normans granted land in Munster by HenryII
Undertakers
men who undertook(agreed) to do as they were told in return for land
The Flight Of Earls
When O’Neill and other Ulster chiefs fled to Europe in 1607
Servitors
English or Scottish soldiers who had fought for the crown
Loyal Irish
Native Irish who stayed loyal to the English during the Nine Year War
Penal laws
laws that suppressed the status of Catholics in Ireland
