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.

MEON is a new socio-environmental journal for the youth of Ireland. We seek to illuminate and re-envision the future relations between nature, man, and tech. We aspire to end the glorification of Capital, and to graft a new Gaelic culture devoted to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful…