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UlsterUlster PlantationUlster PlantationRemember Henry IIHenry II? He had conquered a part of IrelandIreland and established English rule over the Irish. Five hundred years later in the middle of the 17^th century Oliver CromwellCromwell, Oliver continued the English policy of confiscating land and encouraging English and Scottish ProtestantsProtestants to settle especially in the northern part of the island (only the narrow North ChannelNorth Channel separates northeastern Ireland from southwestern ScotlandScotland), which had already become known as the UlsterUlster PlantationUlster Plantation. Ulster, originally an ancient name for the northernmost part of Ireland, is still today used informally as a synonym for Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland and as an indication of the long history of Protestant settlement. Cromwell was and still is hated in Ireland for the brutality with which he subjugated the Catholic Irish. The violence between the Irish CatholicsCatholics and the Protestant emigrants was to continue for another few centuries ( 7).