This title looks at the life and political career of William Conolly, a key figure in the establishment of the 18th-century Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

Overturns established thinking that the Catholic elite were all expropriated and excluded from civil and political life as the Protestant Ascendancy was establi

The Making of Ireland by James Lydon provides an accessible history of Ireland from the earliest times. James Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of

This is a study of religion, politics, and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centurie

"Through such everyday articles as linen shirts, wigs, silver teaspoons, pottery plates and engravings, Barnard evokes a striking variety of lives and attitudes