Liam's Irish Traditional Music - Irelands culture and tradition

Several Tudor and Stuart Writers were’ interested in colonization strategies, and wrote articles, and essays to interest people in, settlement abroad. One of the incentives was the urge to depopulate England of its poor, In the case of Ireland, it was felt that a strongly committed Protestant plantation would overcome Catholicism eventually; by out breeding the Irish In his essay Plantations, Sir Francis Bacon outlined the economic advantages.

Planting of countries is like planting of woods; for you must make account to, leese almost twenty years profit. And expect your recompense in the end the people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen, labourers, smiths, carpenters, joiners, fishermen, fowlers with some few apothecaries, surgeons, cooks and bakers.... In a country of plantation first look about, what kind of victual the country yields of itself to hand, consider likewise what commodities the soil where the plantation is doth naturally yield that they may some way help to defray the charge of the plantation.

Source: Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Plantations" (Essay. 3), written in the early seventeenth Century