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Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760.(Brief Article)

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| June 22, 1993 | Harris, F.W. | COPYRIGHT 2009 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ireland in the eighteenth century has often been called "the Ascendancy"; the period of its history in which the social, economic, cultural, religious, legal, and governmental aspects of life in Ireland were dominated and controlled by the propertied Protestant elite. S. J. Connoly proposes to set forth this epoch in Irish history from the perspective of that elite. Without becoming a defense or an apology, the stated purpose is the reconstruction of "the way in which [the elite's] members saw the society in which they lived and the issues that seemed to them to matter most," and to do so while placing the whole within the framework of pre-revolutionary European affairs(4). …

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