This was welcomed by the Irish, but Mary did not seem to regard the common religion as any reason to treat Ireland well. For 50 years, the Irish who had been removed relentlessly attacked the settlers and it wasn't until 1600 that the attacks stopped. I came to the English throne and made England Protestant again. Although she was funding colonies in the vast, newly discovered, land across the Atlantic she still regarded Ireland as a much more convenient place to colonise, being so much closer and of similar climate to England. Her reign was dogged by rebellions in Ireland.
Reformation fails to take root.
Policy of Plantation begins. System of counties adopted. I in January 1562. 1562 Elizabethan Wars in Ireland. It arose when when Gerald Fitzgerald, earl of Desmond, attempted to levy traditional dues in the Decies in Co. Waterford.