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The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1662-1729

The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1662-1729

Hardcover

Series: Irish Historical Monographs, Book 7

Biographies GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1843835843
ISBN13: 9781843835844
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 18 2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Outlines how William Conolly rose from a Catholic, relatively humble background, how he acquired very significant wealth, held many key political positions and patronised the architects who fashioned Georgian Dublin and Irish country houses. His life illustrates how the protestant ascendancy was consolidated, but also shows that the ascendancy was not a closed elite, and that it contained a strong strand of Irish patriotism, being much more than the instrument of British rule in Ireland.

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