Lords of the Ascendancy: the Irish House of Lords and its members 1600-1800, F.G. James (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and The Catholic University of America Press, Washington £27.50)

In view of the centrality of parliament to the history and historiography of the Ireland of the 'Protestant ascendancy', it is surprising that there is no modern study to compare with P.D.G. Thomas's forensically detailed reconstruction of the operation of the British House of Commons in the eighteenth century for either house of the Irish ... Read more