SS3247

This course focuses primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries into the 20th century. Key periods in Ireland's history will be examined, including the emergence of modern nationalism during the 1700s, culminating in the 1798 rebellion and the Act of Union 1801, the 1803 rebellion, Catholic Emancipation, the Great Famine, Fenianism, Charles Stewart Parnell and Home Rule, the Dublin Lockout 1913, the Easter Rising 1916, the War of Independence 1919-1921, Partition and the Irish Civil War 1922, the Republic of Ireland, and the "Troubles" 1968-1998. The various forms of Irish nationalism, violent and non-violent, will be explored. The course will focus on the above Irish movements while considering their European and Western historical contexts.

Books/Materials >$50, Social Science Group III