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The Burning of Wildwood: Ireland's Tudor Plantations Before Ulster
Long before the Ulster Plantation reshaped the north, Tudor officials tried a smaller, bloodier experiment in the midlands. In the 1550s, Queen Mary I and her lord deputy, the Earl of Sussex, set out to 'plant' loyal English settlers on lands seized from the O'Connors and O'Mores of Laois and Offaly. The result was King's County and Queen's County — new administrative divisions carved out by fire and sword. But the Gaelic clans fought back. The O'More rebellion of 1557, the burning of the woods of Leix, and the brutal 'surrender and regrant' policy…
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