Thomas A. Brady, Jr. / Grahame Foreman

SCHEDULE

Week  I.

8/30.  Tu.  The Shapes of Ireland & the Burdens of Irish History.

9/1.  Th.  Conquest, Plantation, Ascendancy

READ:  Coohill, Short History, pp. 6-18; Hoppen, Introduction.

Week II.

9/6.  Tu.  The French Revolution and the Union.

9/8.  Th.  What M. de Tocqueville Saw.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, pp. 18-38; Larkin, Alexis de Tocqueville: Irish Journal.

Week III.

9/13.  Tu.   O’Connell’s Triumph—Emancipation.

9/15.  Th.  O’Connell’s Failure--Repeal.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chap. 2; Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapter 1.

Week IV. 

9/22.  Tu.  Why Ireland Starved—Causes of the Famine.

9/24.  Th.  How Ireland Starved—Course of the Famine.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chap. 3; Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapter 2; Wooham Smith, The Great Hunger.

Week V.

9/27.  Tu.  America—Making the Other Ireland.  Paper No. 1 is due.

9/29.  Th.  Religion in Irish History.

READ:  Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapter 3.

Week VI.

10/4.  Tu.  Catholic Ireland & the Devotional Revolution.

10/6.  Th.  Protestant Ireland & the “Second Reformation.”

READ:  Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapter 6; Taylor, Occasions of Faith.

Week  VII.

10/11.  Tu.  Fenianism & the Formation of the Irish Party.

10/13.  Th.  Home Rule & the Land League.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chaps. 4-5; Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapters 4-5.

Week VIII.

10/18.  Tu.  Gaelic Ireland & the Irish Nation.

10/20.  Th.  "John Synge and I and Augusta Gregory": The Gaelic Renaissance.

READ:  Synge, The Aran Islands; Sayers, Autobiography, OR Sayers, An Old Woman’s Reflections, OR O Crohan, The Islandman, OR O’Sullivan, Twenty Years a’Growing.

Week IX.

10/25.  Tu.  Irish Nationalism & the National Movement from 1891 to 1914.

10/27.  Th.  “And Ulster Will be Right”—The Other Nation: Unionism to the Covenant.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chap. 6; Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapter 5.

Week X.

11/1.  Tu.  “By Suvla’s Waves”—Ireland and the Great War.  PAPER No. 2 is due.

11/3.  Th.  “Sixteen Dead Men”—Easter 1916.

READ:  Ward, The Easter Rising.

Week XI.

11/8.  Tu.  “The Bold Black & Tans”—The Anglo-Irish War.

11/10.  Th.  “I Went to See David”—The Treaty and The Civil War.

READ:  Clarke, Revolutionary Woman.

Week XII.

11/15.  Tu.  Free State, Northern Ireland, Republic.

11/17.  Th.  Ireland in the Hard Decades, 1940-1960.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chap. 7; Hoppen, Ireland since 1800, chapters 7-9.

Week XIII.

11/22.  Tu.  Modern Unionism to the Fall of Stormont.

11/24.  Th.  Thanksgiving.  No Class.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chap. 8.

Week XIV.

11/29.  Tu.  From Hunger Strikers, Bombs, and British Justice.  

12/1.  Th.  Terroists & Other Freedom Fighters.

READ:  Conroy, Belfast Diary.

Week XV.

12/6.  Tu.  The Europeanization of Ireland. Paper No. 3/Long Paper is due.

12/9.  Th.  The Burdens of Irish History at Millennium's End.

READ:  Coohill, Short History, chap. 9.