London: Constable, 1998. xvii, 327pp, index, references, bibliography, bw ills. Pictorial card. As new. The old land-owning families of Ireland, known collectively as the Ascendancy long after they ceased to be in the ascendant, lost most of their poltical power towards the end of the 1870s at the same time as their economic foundations began to be sapped by agrarian unrest. Chronicles of the Ascendacy's twilight years- a hundred years of the Ascendancy world from the Victorian heyday of the Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle to the 1960s when Dior and dog's dinner went hand in hand.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to.

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Bookseller: Lawrence Jones (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 049693
Title: Twilight of the Ascendancy.
Author: Bence-Jones, Mark
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0094723508
ISBN 13: 9780094723504
Publisher: Constable
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: Ireland Irish Ascendance History Land Ownership Politics Economics Sociology
Bookseller catalogs: History- Britain & Europe; Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology;
Size: Small 4to

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