of Ireland Anglo-Irish Williamite Suffrage#Religion Aristocracy (class) Official Ireland, the "ruling class" of the Irish Free State/Republic after 1922 References Further reading Claydon, Tony and McBride, Ian (Editors). Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c. 1850 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Hayton, David. "Anglo-Irish Attitudes, Changing Perceptions of National Identity among the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, C. 1690–1750." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 17 (1987): 145–157. Hill, Jacqueline R. "National Festivals, the State and 'Protestant Ascendancy' in Ireland, 1790–1829." Irish Historical Studies (1984): 30–51. in JSTOR Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (6 vol. 1892) vol 1 1700–1760, online; vol 2, 1760–1789 vol 3, 1790–96 vol 4, 1796–98 vol 5, 1798–1801 vol 6, international affairs of 1790s Moynahan, Julian, Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, ) Walsh, Patrick. The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1662–1729 (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) Wilson, Rachel, Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690–1745: Imitation and Innovation (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2015). External links Protestant Ascendancy decline 1800–1930 Episode 6 of the Irish Passport Podcast explores the modern legacy of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy on the island today. History of Christianity in Ireland Unionism in Ireland Anti-Catholicism in England Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland Anti-Catholicism in Ireland Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom Phrases Protestantism in Ireland