Dungannon, Northern Ireland
First screened 2 March 2008

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Cruithni
www.cruithni.org.uk
Provides an overview of Ulster history, together with recommended books and articles on the subject.

Wars and conflict: The Plantation of Ulster
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/plantation
This BBC website contains an extensive section on Ireland before the Plantation as well as information on the Plantation and its aftermath.

For links to other websites, either on archaeology generally or specific to the periods and subjects raised in the programme, see our extensive section on Archaeology websites.

Further reading

A History of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon (Blackstaff, 2005) £15.99
This is a very comprehensive reference book, describing the history of Ulster from about 7000 BC to AD 1992. Jonathan Bardon has put the emphasis on contemporary quotations, which give a good flavour of the events being described. Because the book is over 900 pages long, he is able to deal with subject material in a considerable detail – for example, 200 pages are devoted to the troubled years from 1969 to 1992. Fortnight magazine has described this book as 'the fullest, fairest and most professional history ever written of this disputed part of Ireland'.

A Shorter Illustrated History of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon (Blackstaff, 1996) £14.99
A 350-page version of the above, this edition spans 9000 years of social, political and economic life in the province of Ulster, Northern Ireland. The book covers early settlements, the Viking and Norman invasions, the plantations and the Penal Laws, the rise of the United Irishmen and Orangeism, the Act of Union, emigration and the Great Famine, the linen industry and shipbuilding, the Home Rule Crisis and partition, civil rights and the turmoil of the Troubles.

The Archaeology of Ulster: From colonisation to plantation by J P Mallory and T E McNeill (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1991)
The Archaeology of Ulster attempts both to interpret and illustrate for the general reader the development of Ulster society from its initial colonisation by hunting-fishing bands to the last great influx of immigrants during the Plantation. The authors reveal how the material evidence of the past is translated into archaeological interpretation and review many of the problems that currently occupy the attention of archaeologists in Ulster. They also examine to what extent Ulster differs from the rest of Ireland and how much of its past is a product of both peoples and influences shared by the other Irish provinces, Britain and continental Europe.

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