HIST-38000 History of Ireland

The history of this small island off the coast of Britain is a paradigm of western and world history. Britain's first colony, Ireland's colonization set the pattern by which Great Britain would colonize the world. Ireland's history embodies the conflict between pre-modern societies and modernization. This course begins in the early Celtic period, treats of the bitter ideological conflicts and bloody battles of the Reformation, presents for discussion the darkest days of the Great Hunger and the effects of social Darwinist ideology on Irish identity, and finishes with an assessment of contemporary Ireland.

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