The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy. These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English and Scottish ancestors
A portrait of Wolfe Tone, who was captured in the Rebellion of 1798 and committed suicide before he could be executed
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The Catholic Committee was a county association in late 18th-century Ireland that campaigned to relieve Catholics of their civil and political disabilities under the kingdom's Protestant Ascendancy. A
John Keogh, "Member of the Catholic Convention", 1792