01.36 - Root and Branch

Back in the reign of James VI/I, the plantations of Ireland came
under official review. Middlesex, looking to cut costs and raise
funds, looked across the Irish Sea to the growing colonial project
of the Plantations of Ireland. Why were these costing so much
money, why were they not bringing in profit, and why were they
still so Irish?! Check out the podcast website:
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https://twitter.com/BritannicaPax For this episode, I found the
following publications particularly useful: - Jane H. Ohlmeyer,
''Civilizinge of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain
and Ireland, 1580s-1640s', in The Oxford History of the British
Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire - Nicholas Canny, Making
Ireland British, 1580-1650   For a full bibliography, see the
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