On Completion of the Module, You Should Be (Able To)

MODULE TITLE: / Ireland from the Flight of the Earls (1607) to the Good Friday Agreement (1998)
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MODULE CO-ORDINATOR(S): / Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha
Email: e.ociardha(at)mx.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 (0)681-302-70440
Office: C5 3, room 4.10
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RATIONALE
The module offers an introduction to Irish Historyfrom the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present. It will examine key events and political, social and cultural developments over the last four hundred years; the English conquest andplantation, the various rebellions, wars and re-conquests of the early modern period, the impact of the American and French Revolutions on Irish politics and society, the resulting Act of Union (1800) and the subsequent political and extra-political struggles to re-negotiate Ireland’s problematic position within the British Empire. As well as tracing political developments, it will also pays equal attention to socio-economic and cultural issues; patterns of emigration, consumption and social unrest; improvements in education and literacy; linguistic change; changing devotional practices and cultural ‘revival’ in the late 1800. Finally, it will focus on politics and society in the partitioned Ireland after 1921, with particular emphasis on The ‘Troubles’ or armed political conflict of the last thirty years.The lectures will introduce and examine key themes and events in their Irish, British and European and North American contexts, chart major developments and introduce you to key historical debates and controversies.

AIMS

To provide you with an introduction to the most significant developments in early modern and modern Irish history
To introduce you to the central discussions and debates, gaining an understanding of key historical arguments
To develop your skills of critical analysis, argument and formal academic writing
To encourage engagement with alternative historical viewpoints
To help you to adapt to independent patterns of study characteristic of third-level education

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of the module, you should be (able to):

familiar with the major political, socio-economic, military and cultural developments in Irish history
situate Irish history in its proper national/international contexts
comprehend key historical debates and political arguments surrounding Irish history

You will also have developed significant transferable skills, including:

skills of analysis, argument and expression
a capacity to take on and process complex ideas and information
an ability to present structured and informed arguments, both orally and on paper, supported with appropriate primary and secondary material
bibliographical and referencing skills
experience of organizing a personal timetable and workload, delivering oral and written work in a presentable fashion to deadlines.

A successful student will be able to show that he/she can:

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

K1 / demonstrate a factual and conceptual knowledge of early modern and modern Irish History
K2 / display an awareness of a broad range of historical, political, military and cultural themes
K3 / demonstrate basic knowledge of critical approaches and responses to Irish History, and the effects of different historical, social, political, and cultural contexts
K4 / apply a range of critical skills to review, consolidate, extend, and apply your knowledge and understanding of Ireland’s past

INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES

I1 / perform an analysis of written texts and other forms of discourse.
I2 / evaluateextra-textual evidence, literary, visual and audio-visual, artistic and architectural sources
I3 / collect and categorize information, in standard contexts, towards a given purpose
I4 / conduct, with guidance, simple research tasks

PROFESSIONAL /PRACTICAL SKILLS

P1 / take responsibility, with appropriate support, for the planning and execution of your own learning within a specific timescale and in a specific contextual framework
P2 / display a degree of autonomy in the delivery of your own work
P3 / operate in predictable contexts, using standard skills and techniques

TRANSFERABLE/KEY SKILLS

T1 / apply a basic range of learning skills, including information retrieval and IT skills
T2 / exercise, with appropriate support, a degree of initiative and independence of mind in the identification of your own learning needs, and in the planning and execution of their one’s learning
T3 / present ideas, in writing, in a clear and reasonably fluent form, displaying an awareness of the conventions governing the presentation of academic work

CONTENT

The module is designed to provide you with an outline of the most significant events, trends and developments in early modern Irish History between the Flight of the Earls (1607) and the Good Friday Agreement (1998).
LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS
The lectures will comprehensively deal with major historic events and developments and their various political contexts. They will identify key areas of inquiry, possible directions for critical investigation, as well as signalling major areas of controversy. These will subsequently be pursued in seminars, and during private study. In addition to lectures, you are also expected to undertake reading and study. This work should by definition be primarily self-directed, with help and guidance from the module staff.

ASSESSMENT

The final assessment will be a final 90 minute examination, consisting of approximately a dozen questions, each carrying the same weight and each focusing on key aspects of Irish History and historiography. Students are expected to write an essay in response to two questions of their choice.

Summary Description

The module offers an introduction to the history of Ireland from the Flight of the Earls (1607) to Good Friday Agreement (1998). It will assess major events, controversies and historical debates in their various political, military socio-economic and religious and cultural contexts.

Bibliography

Bartlett, T. and Jeffreys, K. (eds), A military history of Ireland (Cambridge, 1996).

Beckett, J.C., The making of modern Ireland (London, 1966).

Brady, C. & Gillespie, R. (eds), Natives and newcomers (Dublin, 1986).

Canny, N., Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001).

Connolly, S.J., Religion, law and power: the making of protestant Ireland 1660-1760 (Oxford, 1992).

Connolly, S.J., Contested Ireland, 1460-1630 (Oxford, 2007).

Connolly, S.J., Ireland, 1630-1800 (Oxford, 2008).

Cullen, L. M., An economic history of Ireland since 1660 (London, 1972)

Cullen, L. M., The emergence of modern Ireland 1660-1900 (London, 1981).

Dickson, D., New foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 (Dublin, 2000).

Ellis, S.G., Ireland in the age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: Englishexpansion and the end of Gaelic rule (1999).

Ellis, S. and Maginn, C., The Making of the British Isles: the state of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 (London, 2007).

Gillespie, R., Seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 2007).

Moody, T.W., Martin, F.X. & Byrne, F.J. (eds), A new history of Ireland, vols 3, 4 and 5 (Oxford, 1968-).

Hyde, D., A literary history of Irelandrepr. (London, 1980).

Lee, J.J., The modernisation of Irish society 1848-1918 (Dublin, 1984).

Lee, J.J.,Ireland, 1912-85 (Cambridge, 1989).

Ó Ciardha, É., Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A fatal attachment (Dublin, 2002, repr. 2004).

Ó Gráda, C., Ireland before and after the famine(Manchester, 1988).

Ó Gráda, C., Ireland. A new economic history 1780-1939 (Oxford, 1994).

Journals

Students should also keep themselves informed of new dissertations, books, articles and other publications through Eighteenth-century Ireland, Éire-Ireland, Field Day Review, History Ireland, Historical Journal, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Irish Economic and Social History, Irish Historical Studies, Irish Sword, Studia Hibernica, and other relevant journals.

Websites

IMPORTANT

I would also refer students to an extensive collection of articles, review articles, books and edited collections in the Clix files for this course, as well as the English subject library’s reserve reading-room