The Protestant Ascendancy (also known as the Ascendancy) was the sociopolitical and economical domination of Ireland between the 17th and early 20th centuries...

exclusively in the hands of a minority Protestant Ascendancy, while Catholics and members of dissenting Protestant denominations suffered severe political...

by the so-called New English settlers, who became known as the Protestant Ascendancy. The community of Norman descent prior to then used numerous epithets...

Anglo-Saxon Protestant ascendancy. The political, cultural, religious, and intellectual leaders of the nation were largely of a Northern European Protestant stock...

Orange Society, taking its name from William of Orange and having Protestant ascendancy and hatred of Catholicism as its battle cries. Extending from Ulster...

Look up ascendancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ascendancy may refer to: Protestant Ascendancy, Anglo-Irish ruling class of Ireland from the 17th...

occupied the Parliament, becoming what would later be termed the Protestant Ascendancy. This period also saw an influx of Huguenots into Meath, and surnames...

Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. The all-island Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland was established in 1798. Its name is a tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king...

state was dominated by the Protestant English (or Anglo-Irish) minority, known as the Protestant Ascendancy. The Protestant Church of Ireland was the state...

grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland...

elite would come to be known as the Protestant Ascendancy. Ironically, despite attempts by some, the Ascendancy had no real desire to convert the mass...

conquest of the 1690s, which began the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland and has been maintained by the Protestant community. Eleventh Night events are often...

history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy. These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland...

the British crown and ultimately aided in ensuring the continued Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. The battle took place on 1 July 1690 O.S. William's...

Members of the Church of Ireland mostly consisted of the Protestant Ascendancy, Protestant settlers of English descent who formed the elite of 17th and...

Conyngham dynasty historically belonged to what was known as the "Protestant Ascendancy", composed of Anglo-Irish aristocrats and gentry. He attended Harrow...

republican United Irishmen against the "orange" tradition of Anglican Protestant Ascendancy loyal to the British Crown, the ideal of a later nationalist generation...

Anglo-Irish Protestant family, beginning in the late 18th century, they became a part of what is known in Ireland as the Protestant Ascendancy. The "banking...

minority to maintain control of land, law and politics as part of the Protestant Ascendancy. The Naturalisation and Restoration of Blood Act 1609 (7 Jas. 1...

the 1860s meant the loyalism and other Protestant ascendancy values (including Orangeism) brought by Protestant Irish immigrants was perceived to be under...

population was about 25% Protestant (including all denominations) of whom Anglicans (about 13%) formed the ruling Protestant Ascendancy. For the 18th century...

a perspective rather than a party. They shared a resistance to Protestant ascendancy, a nostalgia for the lost unity of Christendom, and an interest...

agricultural and urban landowners in both countries, among the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy. The dukedom has descended to heirs male of the body, along with...

French politics, enjoying an ascendancy called by some historians la tyrannie Guisienne. In Scotland, the power of the Protestant Lords of the Congregation...

hostile attitudes towards the poor and anti-Catholicism among the Protestant Ascendancy as well as the Dublin Castle administration's policies in general...

and, to a lesser degree, on Protestant "Dissenters". Enacted by the Irish Parliament, they secured the Protestant Ascendancy by further concentrating property...

Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wellesley was born into a Protestant Ascendancy family in Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland. He was commissioned as an...

Members of the Church of Ireland mostly consisted of the Protestant Ascendancy, Protestant settlers of English descent who formed the elite of 17th and...

demography of Ireland becoming permanently altered, creating a new Protestant Ascendancy which would dominate Irish society for the next few centuries. In North...

Ireland, Gothic fiction tended to be purveyed by the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy. According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Charles Maturin, Sheridan...