There were certainly no voices of dissent from the English and Scottish point of view: you don’t find any arguments in the English language against the Plantation taking place. Neither do you find any significant arguments in the English language among the English-speaking population in Ireland against what is taking place - in so far as you have dissent being voiced from an old-English perspective (and here you are talking about the English-speaking Catholic population of the province of Leinster for the most part) - that in so far as they were objecting, it was that they were precluded from being granted land within the arrangement which was going forward.

So that the objections to Plantation which you get, which are articulated in words, are articulated first of all in the Irish language, and for the most part, from the Continent of Europe. It was those Irish who had gone into exile, and particularly Ulster people who had gone into exile - some of them having entered into Catholic seminaries, usually in the low countries and Flanders, that they began to address the question of the calamity which was besetting the country which they had left: in their absence, so they were looking at events from a distance and were articulating objection and decrying the events which were taking place.

But in so far as you have an articulation of resistance on the ground (it is physical resistance) that one of the things that isn’t always mentioned in the literature is that there was a continuous action on the ground of occasional attacks upon the settler population as they were coming in, occasional murders, occasional burning-downs of people’s property, that kind of thing, as people effectively were forced off their land, took to the woods. Some of those eventually would have made their way to the Continent as soldiers, but in the intervening period of time, they were living as rapparees leading occasional attacks upon the settler population, or taking over what they believed rightfully belonged to them.