Hello everyone and welcome back to the History of England episode 368, the Prince's

Punishments. Right in folks we are back, we are back to Old England at the events of the 1630s,

we are back baby. For at least we are in part, but actually if I made Begoboon, as we sail back from

the Americas, a green island appears first in our way, and I might start with said Emerald I'll

first, just a tad further Western or blighty because, as I believe have been mentioned, probably

Adnausean by now, we are talking about the Wars of Three Kingdoms here, so let us Three Kingdom

together shall we. As I believe I have often remarked, the Stuart kings did not have an easy task,

let's be fair, each of their Three Kingdoms had their own neuroses and peculiar problems and

characteristics, and often these would be directly in opposition and also inflame the situations

in their sisters. And Ireland was of course no exception and in Ireland even more than Scotland,

Charles's dad had handed down father to son a small, heat-sensitive, nethermene nuclear

device ready to go off at any moment, in the form of the Protestant plantations in Ulster.

The situation was already complicated, you are comfortable I would expect, with a traditional

division of Ireland into the Catholic Gaelic Irish who constituted about three quarters of the

population. The Old English also fiercely Catholic, the usually wealthy descendants of normal

conquering families and the new English. fiercely present new arrivals from England, mainly in the

pair around Dublin but also in Ulster, well now we have a new element to add, Presbyterian Scots

among the settlers of Ulster, keeping all those groups happy would have been the task of Solomon

or Haukeleys, depending on the approach taken. In the 1620s further fishes appear which will continue

to be relevant. It might be thought that the Catholic Gaelic Irish and the Old English, both

Catholic of course, would pull together. There was a little bit of indication of this because it

happened to a degree within to marriage but only to a limited degree. The English attitudes toward

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