Module Code - Title:
HI4081
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EARLY MODERN IRELAND
Year Last Offered:
2016/7
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Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To provide a survey of late sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth-century Ireland.
Syllabus:
The Anglo-Irish and Gaelic lordships, Tudor Reform and Reformation, the Tudor conquest (1579-1603); British settlement in Ireland; The crisis in the three kingdoms and the 1641 rising; The Catholic Confederates, Cromwellian reconquest and settlement; demographic and social trends in Restoration Ireland; `The War of the Three Kings 1685-91; Patriotism and the Irish parliament.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this first-year module students should be able to:
Order the main political events in Irish history.
Explain how the Tudor state conquered Ireland.
Assess how well or badly the early Stuarts consolidated that conquest.
Identify the strengths and weak points of the Stuart composite monarchy.
Explain the three kingdom crisis and British civil wars.
Compare the breakdown of English/British control in Ireland during the Civil Wars and after the Glorious Revolution.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this first-year module students should demonstrate an appreciation of the importance of understanding an especially formative period in Irish history.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
R. Gillespie (2006)
Seventeenth-century Ireland
, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
Padraig Lenihan (2007)
Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727
, London: Longman
C. Lennon (1994)
Sixteenth-century Ireland: the incomplete conquest
, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
Other Relevant Texts:
D. Dickson (1999)
New foundations: Ireland, 1660-1800
, Dublin: Irish Academic Press
S.J. Conolly (2007)
Contested island: Ireland, 1460-1630
, Oxford: Oxford University Press
S.J Connolly (2008)
Divided Kingdom, Ireland, 1630-1800
, Oxford: Oxford University Press
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