Cromwellian confiscation, to Hell or to Connacht. Then the Williamite war, then the Penal Laws, and the Protestant Ascendancy is built. By 1700 Catholics are three-quarters of the people and hold barely a seventh of the land. Georgian Dublin rises as the empire's second city. In 1798 the United Irishmen rise too, and are crushed in blood.
Handel's Messiah is heard for the first time anywhere — in Fishamble Street's Musick Hall, for charity; ladies were asked to come without hoops to fit more people in.
Bought with peerages and gold, the Irish parliament votes itself out of existence.
Quick answersWhen was Ascendancy Ireland in Ireland?
Ascendancy Ireland spans 1653 to 1800 in this atlas. Cromwellian confiscation, to Hell or to Connacht.
Who ruled Ireland during Ascendancy Ireland?
Kingdom of Ireland held the whole island in this atlas's reckoning. The whole island as a dependent kingdom under the English (later British) crown, governed from Dublin Castle by a viceroy and a Protestant parliament.
What is a lesser-known fact about Ascendancy Ireland?
The Famine you haven't heard of: Bliain an Áir, the 'Year of Slaughter' (1740–41), when arctic weather killed perhaps one Irish person in eight — proportionally deadlier than the Great Famine a century later, and almost entirely forgotten.
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