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The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730\u20131880\n\nProvides new, authoritative and original interpretations of a crucial phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland.\n\nJames Kelly (Edited by), Thomas Bartlett (General editor)\n\n9781107115200 (SKU 3256657), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 26 April 2018\n\n874 pages\n23.5 x 15.9 x 4.3 cm, 1.51 kg\n\nThe 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, cultu]