The conference is hosted by the People of the Ulster Plantation Database project, jointly managed by Queen’s University Belfast and Maynooth University. Access to the project’s database is free at https://ulster-settlers.maynoothuniversity.ie/.

The conference will bring together experts on the Ulster plantation who will present the most up to date research on the colonial project. The programme also includes a presentation of the database and how it can be used to trace men and women who came to Ulster in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Funding for the database project was provided by the Hunter Foundation, which was established by the Royal Irish Academy in memory of the late Robert John (Bob) Hunter (1938-2007). Bob Hunter was a renowned historian of the Ulster plantation. His research focussed on the people who came to live in the north of Ireland in the first half of the seventeenth century. In the opening presentation of the conference, Dr William Roulston of the Ulster Historical Foundation will discuss Bob Hunter’s research on the plantation.

This is a free event, open to the public. All welcome.