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May 21, 2024
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HC 839 - Topics in British and Irish History3 credits
Spring 2016: The purpose of this course is to allow students to assess the impact of Ireland and its migrants upon the wider world. Although we will examine the influence of Irish immigrant populations in different countries around the world, we will also be seeking to complicate the traditional narrative of Irish history, which sees Ireland as an oppressed nation whose impoverished residents fled to seek economic sustenance elsewhere. We will debate whether Ireland itself was guilty of colonizing, or participating in the colonization of other peoples of the world, as well as being a victim of this process. We will also challenge some of the triumphant popular histories that have sought to place the Irish nation on a pedestal in world history. Finally, we will look beyond the impact of Irish people living abroad, to examine what role the spread of Irish political ideology had in other countries. Looking at world history over a broad expanse of time, we will try to come to some consensus as to how the measure the influence of the Emerald Isle upon the rest of the globe. Course may be repeated.
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