To provide a survey of sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth-century Irish history.

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.

On successful completion of this survey 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; and - compare the breakdown of English/British control in Ireland during the Civil Wars and after the Glorious Revolution.

On successful completion of this module students should demonstrate an appreciation of the importance of understanding an especially formative period in Irish history.

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Understanding the complexity of societies in the past involves a number of skills that students master. Lectures and tutorials form a single part of the process of historical understanding alongside reading and research. Lectures are designed to introduce a student to a number of themes and events but will never provide all of the information necessary for achieving the objectives of the module. Through personal reading and research students will be better able to comprehend the people, places and politics of Irish society between 1536 and 1750. The learner will become: - knowledgeable of the key themes of early modern Irish history, through reading, writing and listening; - proactive by participating in lectures and tutorials; - creative through an active engagement with the assessment instruments; - responsible by exploring and understanding why decisions were made and their impact on people and places; - collaborative by working together both formally and informally on assessments; and - articulate by conveying ideas through written and verbal means throughout the module.