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 ...

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 ...

The years between 1541 and 1660 were calamitous ones for the native Irish when the old Gaelic civilisation was lost to be replaced by the Protestant ascendancy. Those were the years between when King ...

In his excellent obituary of William Trevor (22 November), the late Peter Porter wrote that Trevor “was not of the Protestant Ascendancy and resembled George Bernard Shaw and Seán O’Casey more than he ...

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 ...