GGeorgetown-Set-Friends-Washington/dp/0307271188">eorgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington, by Gregg Herken, is about the social and political elites ...

The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

Being born in Dublin didn’t make the Duke of Wellington Irish (Letters, 6 April). He and his parents belonged to the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy who’d stolen their land and wealth from Irish ...

THE Battle of the Boyne marked the last time two Kings of England fought each other on the battlefield and brought in the Protestant Ascendancy. More than 300 years on, in 2019, it remains an ...

The first known use of the word "mainline" to describe the largest Protestant denominations and distinguish them from their growing evangelical and fundamentalist counterparts appeared in the New York ...

Over the past years the southern Protestant experience of war and revolution has inspired a substantial number of books, articles and RTÉ documentaries, as well as a lively debate in the press. To a ...

**Origins (late 1700s–early 1800s)** Ramsfort House was established as a large Anglo-Irish country estate representative of ...

On 12 March 1689, James II, the deposed king of England and Ireland, Catholic and absolutist, landed at Kinsale on the south coast of Ireland with a substantial French force. He had fled England a few ...