For them, saving our native identity was an existential matter because without our ethnos… there would be no ‘Ireland’ worth contributing to.

There are few events in Irish history whose ramifications can still be felt so strongly now as the Plantation of Ulster. The cultural, political and religious ramifications of the Plantation are well-known, but the impact the Plantation had on the environment, particularly Ulster’s forestry, is rather less known, and its ramifications are no less tangible.