Module Code - Title:
HI5102
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SOURCES AND CASES IN MODERN IRISH HISTORY
Year Last Offered:
2024/5
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To familiarise the student with the nature and use of a wide range of easily accessible sources, both printed and manuscript, for modern Ireland and especially for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Syllabus:
The course will introduce students to the principal categories and varieties of source materials for the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the national, regional and local repositories of manuscript, printed, cartographic and visual sources. Students will also engage with selected case studies such as as the tithe war, the community of landed estates, famine, popular politicisation, trade unionism, housing developments, sports history and constituency organisation
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module students should be able to
* integrate national trends and events into local history.
* demonstrate how national trends can be more fully assessed through multiple local and regional studies.
* identify and recognise different types of local history source material
* ascertain the usefullness of various types of source material.
* employ appropriate local history source materials in their own disseration.
* decide on the applicability of oral history evidence to their dissertation.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Understanding the complexity of societies in the past involves a number of skills that students master. Seminars form a single part of the process of historical understanding alongside reading and research. They are designed to introduce a student to a nu
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Not Applicable
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Weekly seminars on the MIC campus
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Not Relevant
Prime Texts:
Hayes, R.J. (1965)
Manuscript Sources for the History of irish Civilization
, Boston
O'Dowd, M and Edwards, R.D. (1984)
Sources for the History of Early Modern Ireland
, Cambridge
Helferty, S. and Refaussé, R. (1993)
Directory of Irish Archives
, irish Academic Press: Dublin
Other Relevant Texts:
Perks R. ,Thomson, A. (1998)
The Oral History Reader
, Routledge
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
david.fleming@ul.ie