The Protestant Ascendancy, usually known simply as the Ascendancy, was a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
Ascendancy may also refer to:
- Ascendancy (album), 2005, by Trivium
- Ascendancy (computer game)
- Ascendancy (film)
- Ascendency, sometimes spelled "ascendancy", a quantitative attribute of an ecosystem.
Famous quotes containing the word ascendancy:
“As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)