TY - BOOK AU - Kelly,James TI - The Cambridge history of Ireland SN - 9781107115200 (hbk.) : AV - DA910 .C29 2018 U1 - 941.5 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - History KW - ukslc KW - Ireland N2 - The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad ER -