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The Burning of Wildwood: Tudor Plantations Before Ulster
Long before the Plantation of Ulster, Tudor England tried to colonize Ireland's midlands. This episode follows the bloody 16th-century campaign to carve two new counties — King's County and Queen's County — out of the fiercely independent lands of the O'Mores and O'Connors. We trace the scorched-earth tactics of the Earl of Sussex, the failed promise of 'surrender and regrant', and the desperate rebellion of Rory O'More. We visit the ruins of Dunamase Castle, the new town of Port Laoise (originally Maryborough), and the brutal logic of plantation as a…
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