Originally recorded during the Conference on Ulster Plantation event held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) on 12 February 2026. The event was hosted by the People of the Ulster Plantation Database project, a research project jointly managed by Queen’s University Belfast and Maynooth University.

The event waschaired by Professor Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast), Dr Patrick Fitzgerald (Mellon Centre for Migration Studies) and Professor Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast)

Lectures from the Conference of Ulster Plantation include:

• Dr William Roulston (Ulster Historical Foundation) - ‘R. J. Hunter and Plantation Studies’
• Professor Tom O’Connor (Maynooth University) - ‘Introduction to the Database and its Possibilities’
• Dr Robin Usher (Queen’s University Belfast) - ‘Sources and Life Stories Traceable Through the Database’
• Andrew Kane (Ulster Historical Foundation) - ‘Mapping the Ulster Plantation Estates’
• Dr Annaleigh Margey (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - ‘Maps and the Plantation’
• Dr David Heffernan (Independent Researcher) - ‘Beyond the Crown Surveys: Estate Records for the Ulster Plantation, c. 1609 – 1641’
• Dr William Roulston (Ulster Historical Foundation) - ‘Gravestones and Funeral Monuments of the Ulster Plantation’
• Dr Brendan Scott (Irish Family History Foundation) - ‘Ulster’s Plantation Towns: An Appraisal’

In addition to the full conference video, the individual lectures have also been uploaded to YouTube separately. Some viewers may find these standalone lectures more convenient or useful, particularly if they wish to focus on specific topics or speakers.