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MHY7035 Debates in History
MA Irish History / MA History /
MA Irish Studies (History)
2014-15
School of History and Anthropology
15 University Square
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1PA
Northern Ireland
Tel: 028 90 973423
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Fax: 028 90 973440
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Co-ordinator: Dr Danny Kowalsky
d.kowalsky@qub.ac.uk
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The information contained in this course outline, and additional materials, are also available
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Module Information: MHY7035 Debates in History
Overview
MHY7035 Debates in History combines a series of core sessions (part 1) on developments in modern
historiography shared between the MA pathways in history, with a series of parallel sessions (part 2)
addressing historiographical themes specific to the pathways in: British history, American history;
Medieval history and Early Modern History; History of Religion, Identity and Conflict; and Ancient
History; and Irish history: Culture, Politics and Identity.
1. Aims
The module will introduce you (1) to some of the main themes in contemporary historiography and to
new directions in historical thought, and (2) to some major themes in British / American / Medieval and
Early Modern History / Religion / Ancient / Irish historiography (as appropriate to your pathway) in the
context of global developments.
2. Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to demonstrate, through two assessed essays, an understanding of key issues
raised by the module. Students should have a grasp of key contemporary historiographical debates and
the historiographical contexts relevant to their pathway, and the changing relationships between the
historical and cognate disciplines. Students should be able to write informed historical analyses of the
historical problems associated with the main themes of the module.
3. Structure
For the first six weeks (part 1) of the semester there will be seminars to investigate and discuss a range
of common themes in contemporary global historiography. These are themes which all modern history
postgraduate students should be aware of, whether or not they are directly relevant to your own core
research interests. Students following the ancient history strand will include study of a period or
periods of ancient history in respect of recent historiographical developments and theories of the
interpretation of source material.
After week 7 (reading week with no classes) the groups will divide to concentrate in part 2 on a
number of historiographical themes specific to their own pathways.
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In part 1 you will be divided into small groups and expected to take turns to make short presentations to
the seminar group on topics proposed by the topic convenors. Presentations will be followed by a
general discussion of the whole seminar group, for which all members must be prepared by reading as
much of the recommended literature as possible.
4. Assessment
This module will be assessed by two assessed essays, 3,500 words apiece, each of which carries 50% of
the total marks for the module.
The first essay should be written on one of the themes covered in part 1 of the course (weeks 1-6).
Please consult the co-ordinator or the session tutor to discuss a suitable title for your essay. The second
essay will be on the themes covered in part 2 (weeks 8-12); please consult your pathway co-ordinator
to discuss a suitable title. See below for details. Tutor feedback on essay 1 will be returned before the
due date for essay 2.
Essay 1 (part 1) must be submitted by 12 noon on Monday 1 December 2014 (week 10).
Essay 2 (part 2) must be submitted by 12 noon on Monday 12 January 2015.
Please note that essays submitted after the deadline will have five marks deducted for each working day
thereafter, up to a maximum of five working days, after which no essay will be accepted, or credit
allowed. All essays must be properly referenced, and have a bibliography that complies with the
conventions used in History (see:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/CurrentStudentsHistory/Postgraduate
Students/). Be sure to proof-read your essays before submission, to avoid grammatical and spelling
mistakes.
Seminar Structure 2014-15
For part 1 (weeks 1-6) there will be two seminar groups for this module covering the same topics.
Group 1 meets on Thursdays 16.00-18.00 in 16UQ/101
Group 2 meets on Fridays 14.00-16.00 in 13UQ/G06
From weeks 8-12 students will meet in their strand specific groups on Thursday between 16.00 and
18.00. Your stand convenor will confirm room details for you when they provide the reading lists for
these weeks.
In addition, all students on MHY7035 should attend the History Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminars.
These events take place on Friday afternoons at 16.00. You are asked to attend for two reasons: one
intellectual, the other social. Attending academic papers, even when they are not in your subject area, is
a key part of postgraduate training. It enables you to think about how other researchers have compiled
their evidence and constructed an argument. In particular, you might want to assess what kind of
historiographical influences have impacted on each speaker in this seminar series. There is also a social
reason behind the request that you attend these seminars. We hope that the postgraduate community
will see it as an opportunity to meet on Friday afternoons. Wine and soft drinks are served at the event
and nearby pubs and coffee shops beckon once the papers are over.
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Seminar Programme 2014-15
Part 1 (All pathways)
Week
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3
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6
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Thurs 4pm in 16UQ/101
Introduction (Dr Danny Kowalsky)
Nationalism (Dr Alex Titov)
Gender (Prof Mary O’Dowd and Dr Elaine
Farrell)
Memory (Prof Sean O’Connell)
War (Prof Keith Jeffery)
Cultural History (Prof Chris Marsh)
NO CLASS
Friday 2pm in 13UQ/G06
Introduction (Dr Danny Kowalsky)
Nationalism (Dr Alex Titov)
Gender (Prof Mary O’Dowd and Dr Elaine
Farrell)
Memory (Prof Sean O’Connell)
War (Prof Keith Jeffery)
Cultural History (Prof Chris Marsh)
NO CLASS
Part 2 (Booklets to follow)
British History Professor Keith Jeffery (k.jeffery@qub.ac.uk)
8. Political history (Dr Paul Corthorn)
9. International history (Dr Paul Corthorn)
10. Social history (Professor Sean O’Connell)
11. Intelligence history (Prof Keith Jeffery)
12. Presentations by students on their research or dissertation topics
American History Dr Brian Kelly (b.kelly@qub.ac.uk)
8. States of US History (Dr Brian Kelly)
9. Civil War and Slave Emancipation (Dr Brian Kelly)
10. Gender and Sexuality (Dr Zoe Hyman)
11. Race and Resistance: Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century (Dr Zoe Hyman)
12. Labor and Social History (Dr Brian Kelly)
Medieval and Early Modern History Dr Sinead O’Sullivan (s.osullivan@qub.ac.uk)
8. Introduction: Trends and Debates (Dr Sinead O’Sullivan)
9. 'Henri Pirenne and the rise of Islam in the early middle ages'(Dr Immo Warntjes)
10. Byzantine History (Dr Dion Smythe)
11. Later Medieval England (Dr James Davis)
History of Religion, Identity and Conflict Dr Andrew Holmes (a.holmes@qub.ac.uk)
8. Religious history and secularisation - Andrew Holmes
9. Holy War in the early modern period - Ian Campbell
10. Apocalypse - Crawford Gribben
11. Evangelicalism, war, and revolution - Andrew Holmes
12. Essay workshop
Ancient History Professor John Curran (john.curran@qub.ac.uk)
8. Politics
9. Religion
10. Economics
11. Social History
12. The problems of writing history in autocratic regimes
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Irish History Dr Fearghal McGarry (f.mcgarry@qub.ac.uk)
8. Revisionism and the Irish historiographical revolution (Professor Peter Gray)
9. Anti-Revisionism and the battle for Ireland's past (Professor Peter Gray)
10. Irish gender history (Dr Elaine Farrell and Prof. Mary O'Dowd)
11. New perspectives: transnational history (Dr Fearghal McGarry)
12. Irish emigration and the diaspora (Dr Patrick Fitzgerald)
Preparing for tutorials
You will be assigned to groups to prepare the various questions for the tutorial discussions. There is a
great deal of reading for each topic and we have also added strand specific reading (where appropriate)
to enable you to closely relate the historiographical topics being studied to your area of interest (e.g.
Medieval History or US history).
Part 1: Recommended texts:
For part 1 the best general introductions to themes in modern historiography are:
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob, Telling the truth about history, (New York, 1995)
Michael Bentley, Modern historiography: an introduction, (London, 1999)
Mary Fulbrook, Historical theory, (London, 2002)
John Tosh, The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of modern history.
(Harlow, 2006 edn).
These are supplemented by:
Michael Bentley (ed.), Companion to historiography, (London, 1997)
Peter Burke (ed.), History and historians in the twentieth century, (Oxford, 2002)
Peter Burke (ed.), New perspectives on historical writing. (Cambridge, 1991)
David Cannadine (ed.), What is history now? (Basingstoke, 2002)
Richard J. Evans, In defence of history, (London, 1997)
Georg G. Iggers, Historiography in the twentieth century: from scientific objectivity to the postmodern
challenge, (Hanover, 1997).
Georg G. Iggers and Q. Edward Wang, A global history of modern historiography. (Harlow, 2008)
Keith Jenkins, On ‘What is History’: from Carr and Elton to Rorty and White, (London, 1995).
Lloyd Kramer and Sara Maza, A Companion to Western Historical Thought. (Oxford, 2006)
Peter Lambert and Phillipp Schofield, Making history: An introduction to the history and practices of a
discipline. (London, 2005).
M.C. Lemon, Philosophy of history: a guide for students. (London, 2003)
Peter Novick, That noble dream: the ‘objectivity question’ and the American historical profession
(Cambridge, 1988)
Beverley Southgate, Why bother with history? (Harlow, 2000)
Anthologies of historiographical writing include:
Adam Budd (ed.), The modern historiography reader: western sources (London, 2008)
Keith Jenkins (ed), The postmodern history reader (London, 1998)
Sue Morgan (ed.), The feminist history reader, (London, 2006)
Geoffrey Roberts (ed.), The history and narrative reader, (London, 2001)
John Tosh (ed.), Historians on history, Harlow: Longman, 2001 (2nd edn, 2008)
Seminar readings:
1.
Introduction: how do we think about History now? [Dr Danny Kowalsky]
Questions:
(1) What is historiography?
(2) Is ‘History’ in crisis?
(3) Are we at the ‘end of History’?
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All read (on Queen’s Online):
Richard J. Evans, In defence of history (London, 1997) - Intro
Eric Hobsbawm, ‘Outside and inside history’, from On history (London, 1997)
Keith Jenkins, The Postmodern history reader (London, 1997) – ‘Introduction: on being open about our
closures’
John Tosh, Historians on history (Harlow, 2001/2008) – Introduction
PLUS: readings from the general part 1 list above
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Nationalism [Dr Alex Titov]
Questions:
(1) What is nationalism?
● Define key terms like ‘nation’, ‘nation-state’, ‘nationalism’, ‘patriotism’
(2) Why is it important?
● Why has nationalism been so important in the modern world?
(3) What is national identity?
● How does national identity differ from other identities, like those of race, class, or supranational identities like ‘Europe’, or cosmopolitanism?
(4) Is the nation ancient or modern?
● Are nations and national identity are modern artefacts, constructed by nationalist ideology
(Gellner’s view)?
● Does the ‘modernist’ perspective underestimate the deeper and more historic roots, (e.g. ethnic
ones), of the nation and hence of nationalism?
Essential Reading:
For Question 1 and 2
● Walker Connor, 'A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a...' Ethnic and racial
studies 1(4), October 1978
● E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992) (chapters 1 and 2) E-book or JC311 HOBS
For Question 3
● A.D.Smith, National identity (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991) Chapter One, ‘National and
other identities’ JC311 SMIT
For Question 4
● U. Ozkirimli, Theories of nationalism : a critical introduction (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
JC311 OZK, Chapters 3 and 4 on ‘Primordialism’ and ‘Modernism’
● A.D. Smith, Nationalism and modernism : a critical survey of recent theories of nations and
nationalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1998) (e-book) pp. 1-25, ‘The modernist
paradigm’
● E. Gellner, ‘Nationalism and Modernisation’ and/or ‘Nationalism and High Cultures’, in
A.D.Smith and J. Hutchinson (eds.), Nationalism (Oxford: OUP, 1994), pp. 55-70 JC311
HUTC
● J. Hall (ed.), The state of the nation: Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) JC311 HALL, especially articles by B.
O’Leary (‘Ernest Gellner’s diagnoses of nationalism’) and by C. Taylor (‘Nationalism and
Modernity’).
Further Reading:
L. Greenfeld, Nationalism: five roads to modernity (Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University
xxx-Press, 1992) JC311 GREE (Chapter 1)
A. Roshwald, The endurance of nationalism: ancient roots and modern dilemmas (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006) JC311 ROSH. Chapter 1: Nationalism in Antiquity.
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Anthony D. Smith, The nation in history: historiographical debates about ethnicity and nationalism
(Cambridge: Polity, 2000) JC311 SMIT (one night loan)
U. Ozkirimli, Theories of nationalism: a critical introduction, 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
JC311 OZK
B. Anderson, Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Reflections
on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (revised and extended edition) (London: Verso,
1991)
J. Breuilly, Nationalism and the state (2nd edition) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993)
John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith (eds.), Nationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, and
New York, 1994) Pol C-1 Hut
John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith (eds.), Ethnicity (Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996) Sociology G-0 Hut
*E.Gellner, Nations and nationalism, 2nd edition, with an introduction by John Breuilly (Malden MA:
Blackwell, 2006)
E. Gellner, Nationalism (London: Phoenix, 1998) Pol C-1 Gel
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and nationalism since 1780 : programme, myth, reality, 2nd edition
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
A.D. Smith, The ethnic origins of nations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986) Pol C-1 Smi
A.D.Smith, Nationalism: theory, ideology, history (Cambridge: Polity, 2001) Pol C-1 Smi
C. Tilly (ed.), The formation of national states in Western Europe (Princeton and London: Princeton
University Press, 1975) Mod Hist C-2.03 Til
L. Tivey (ed.), The nation-state: the formation of modern politics (Oxford: Robertson, 1981) Pol C-1
Tiv
M. Mann (ed.), The Rise and decline of the nation state (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990)
M. Mann, The sources of social power, Vol. 2: The rise of classes and nation-states 1760-1914
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
E.J.Hobsbawm, Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Miroslav Hroch, 'From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation, the nation-building process in
Europe', New Left Review 198, March/April 1993, pp 3-20
Strand specific reading
L. Colley, Britons: forging the nation 1707-1837 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press,
1992)
K. Kumar, The making of English national identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
J. Hutchinson et al, ‘Debate on Krishan Kumar’s The Making of English National Identity’, Nations
and nationalism, Vol. 13, Part 2, April 2007, pp 179-204
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Gender and Women’s History [Prof Mary O’Dowd and Dr Elaine Farrell]
Questions for presenters. The answers should be based on a wide range of reading:
(1)
When and why did historians become interested in the history of women?
(2)
Compare and contrast the development of women’s history in two countries (one of which
should not be the USA or the UK)
(3)
What are the challenges confronting historians of women and Islam?
Reading for students who are not presenting:
Select one article from the following and prepare an analysis on how the article uses gender as a tool
of analysis. Is it a useful way of looking at history? What differences does the author detect between
women’s and men’s histories?
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Maggie Andrews, ‘Homes both sides of the microphone: the wireless and domestic space in inter-war
Britain’ in Women's History Review, xxi, no. 4 (2012), pp 605-21.
Donica Belisle, ‘Negotiating paternalism: women and Canada's largest department stores, 1890-1960’
in Journal of Women's History, xix, no. 1 (2007), pp 58-81.
Kay Boardman, ‘“A material girl in a material world”: the fashionable female body in Victorian
women’s magazines’ in Journal of Victorian Culture, iii, no. 1 (1998), pp 93-100.
Michele Cohen, ‘“Manners” make the man: politeness, chivalry, and the construction of masculinity,
1750–1830’ in Journal of British Studies, xliv (2005), pp 312–29.
Heidi Gengenbach, ‘Boundaries of beauty: tattooed secrets of women's history in Magude District,
Southern Mozambique’ in Journal of Women's History, xiv, no. 4 (2003), pp 106-41.
Amanda Kaladelfos, ‘The ‘condemned criminals’: sexual violence, race, and manliness in colonial
Australia’ in Women's History Review, xxi, no. 5 (2012), pp 697-714.
All students should also read at least two articles from this list which provide background analyses on
the development of women’s and gender history:
Natalie Zemon Davis, ‘Women’s history in transition: the European case’ in Feminist Studies, vol 3,
no 3-4 (Spring-Summer, 1976), pp 83-103
Gerder Lerner, ‘Women among the professors of history: the story of a process of transformation’ in
Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri (eds), Voices of women historians. The personal, the
political, the professional (Bloomington, Indiana, 1999). Copy available on QOL
Jane Rendall, ‘’Uneven developments’: women’s history, feminist history and gender history in Great
Britain’ in Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall
(eds),
Writing
women’s history. International perspectives (Basingstoke, 1991). Copy available on QOL
Joan Wallach Scott, ‘Gender: a useful category of analysis’ in American Historical Review, 91, no 5
(December, 1986). Revised version printed in Gender and the politics of history (New York,
1988). Available as an E-book.
Linda Kerber, ‘On the importance of taking notes (and keeping them)’ in Eileen Boris and Nupur
Chaudhuri (eds), Voices of women historians. The personal, the political, the professional
(Bloomington, Indiana, 1999). Copy available on QOL
The Development of Women’s and Gender History Outside the USA and the UK:
The Journal of Women’s History Spring 2007 issue includes articles about countries such as Germany,
Hungary, Mexico, India and Canada.
Silvia Mantini and James Schwarten, ‘Women's history in Italy: cultural itineraries and new proposals
in current historiographical trends’ in Journal of Women's History, xii, no. 2 (2000), pp 17098.
Andrea Peto, ‘Writing women's history in Eastern Europe: toward a “terra cognita”?’ in Journal of
Women's History, xvi, no. 4 (2004), pp 173-81
Women’s History and Islam:
Barbara D. Metcalf, ‘Does Islam create a “specific historical destiny” for Muslim women? A review
essay about India, Iran, and Uzbekistan’ in Journal of Women’s History, vol. 23, no. 1
(Spring 2011), pp 155-65
Bronwyn Winter, ‘ Fundamental misunderstandings: issues in feminist approaches to Islamism’ in
Journal of Women’s History, vol. 13 (Spring, 2001), pp 9-41
Julie Marcus, ‘History, anthropology and gender: Turkish women past and present 1 in Gender and
History, vol. 4, issue 2 (June, 1992), pp 147-54
Margot Badran, ‘Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Islamic Feminism’ in Journal of Women’s
History, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp 47-52
Hammed Shahidian, ‘Politics, and problems of writing women's history in Iran’ in Journal of Women’s
History, no. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp 113-144
Elizabeth Thompson, ‘Public and private in Middle Eastern women's history’ in Journal of Women’s
History, no. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp 52-69
Indrani Chatterjee ‘Between west and south: Asianist women's history and Islam’ in Journal of
Women’s History, no. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp 192-6
Other Reading:
Margaret MacCurtain et al, ‘An agenda for women’s history in Ireland, 1500-1900’ in Irish Historical
Studies, xxviii, no. 109 (May, 1992), pp 1-37
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Laura Davidow Hirshbein, ‘The flapper and the fogy: representations of gender and age in the 1920s’
in Journal of Family History (January, 2001), pp 112-137
Bonnie G. Smith, The gender of history. Men, women and historical practice (Cambridge, Mass.,
1998)
Gerda Lerner, The majority finds its past. Placing women in history (New York, 1979)
Joan Kelly, Women, history and theory (Chicago, 1984)
Susan Kingsley Kent, Gender and history (Basingstoke, 2012)
Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent (eds), Gender and history in western Europe (London, 1998)
Ellen Messer-Davidow, Disciplining feminism. From social activism to academic discourse (Durham
and London, 2002) chapter 5: ‘Proliferating the discourse’.
Separate Spheres? The Public/Private Debate in Women’s History:
Linda Kerber, ‘Separate spheres, female worlds, woman’s place: the rhetoric of women’s history’ in
Journal of American History, lxxv (1988). Reprinted in Linda Kerber, Towards an
intellectual history of women (Chapel Hill, 1997)
Catherine Hall, ‘The early formation of Victorian domestic ideology’ in White, male and middle class:
explorations in feminism and history (London, 1992); reprinted in
Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent (eds), Gender and history in Western Europe (London and New
York, 1998)
Amanda Vickery, ’Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of
English women’s history’ in Historical Journal, 36 (1993); and reprinted in Shoemaker and
Vincent, op. cit.
There was a major debate on the issue in the Journal of Women’s History, Spring and Summer 2003.
There are seven articles on the topic in the two issues of the journal.
The topic can also be followed up through a more detailed reading of the work of individual historians,
particularly Catherine Hall and Leonore Davidoff; Nancy Cott and Joan Landes.
Journals:
There are three academic journals in English that specialise in the history of women and gender. Two
are based in the UK: Gender and History and Women's History Review. Journal of Women's History is
edited in the USA. All are available online through QUB Library.
Debate on Continuity and Change in Women’s History:
Pamela Sharpe (ed.), Women’s work. The English experience, 1650-1914 (London, 1998) includes
edited versions of some of the key essays
Judith Bennett, ‘Women’s history: a study of continuity and change’ in Women’s History Review, 2
(1993), pp 173-84.
Pamela Sharpe, ‘Continuity and change: women’s history and economic history in Britain’ in
Economic History Review, 48 (1995)
Bridget Hill, ‘Women’s history: a study in change, continuity or standing still?’ in Women’s History
Review, 2 (1993)
Judith Bennett, ‘Confronting continuity’ in Journal of Women's History, 9 (1997)
Judith Bennett, ‘Medieval women, modern women: across the great divide’ in Ann-Louise Shapiro
(ed.), Feminists Revision History (Chapel Hill, NC, 1994). Copy on QOL
Gender and Men’s History and History of Masculinity:
John Tosh, `What should historians do with masculinity? Reflections on nineteenth-century Britain’ in
History Workshop Journal, 38 (1994)
Keith McClelland, `Some thoughts on masculinity and the “representative artisan’’ in Britain, 18501880’ in Gender and History, 1 (1989). Reprinted in M. Roper and J. Tosh (eds.), Manful
assertions: masculinity in Britain since 1800 (1991)
Andrew Davies, `Youth gangs, masculinity and violence in late Victorian Manchester and Salford’ in
Journal of Social History, 32 (Winter, 1998)
Jon Lawrence, `Class and gender in the making of urban Toryism, 1880-1914’ in English Historical
Review, 108 (1993)
Pat Ayres, `The making of men: masculinities in interwar Liverpool’ in Margaret Walsh (ed), Working
out gender: perspectives from labour history
Strand specific reading
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J. M. Bennett, ‘England: women and gender’, in S.H. Rigby (ed.), A companion to Britain in the
Middle Ages (Oxford, 2003), pp 87-106
Laura Davidow Hirshbein, ‘The flapper and the fogy: representations of gender and age in the 1920s’
in Journal of Family History (January, 2001), 112-137.
P. Stafford and A. B. Mulder-Bakker, Gendering the middle ages (Oxford, 2001), first published as a
special issue of Gender and History, 12.3 (2000)
4.
The Nature of Memory [Prof Sean O’Connell]
Questions:
(1) To what extent is memory a social construct?
(2) How reliable is memory as a historical source, and what methodologies are required for its effective
use?
(3) Is what is forgotten as important as what is remembered to the historian?
(4) To what extent do biology and the environment determine human action and memory?
Required Reading:
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapter 6: Anomaly and the
Emergence of Scientific Discoveries, 52-65. QOL
Richard Lebow, "The Future of Memory," Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science (May 2008), 25-41. JSTOR
Anna Bryson, "'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing': Researching Memory and Identity
in Mid-Ulster, 1946-1968," Oral History (Autumn 2007), 45-56. JSTOR
Wulf Kansteiner, "Nazis, Viewers and Statistics: Television History, Television
Audience Research and Collective Memory in West Germany," Journal of Contemporary
History (October 2004), 575-598. JSTOR
Suggested Reading:
Jessica Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery
Plantation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (New York: Verso, 1983, 2006).
Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).
Eberhard Bort, ed., Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Dublin: Irish Academic Press,
2004).
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of
Philip II, Vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966, 1995).
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2005).
Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, People, and Languages (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2001).
Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 (New York:
Basic, 2000).
Sarah Farmer, Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradoursur-Glane (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
Kenneth Foote, Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003).
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1975, 2000).
Richard Handler and Eric Gable, The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the
Past at Colonial Williamsburg (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
David Harvey, The Urban Experience (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1989).
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1983, 2003).
Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).
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Ian McBride, ed, History and Memory in Modern Ireland. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001).
Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past (trans. and ed. A. Goldhammer, 3 vols,
New York, 1996-7).
Robert Perks and Alastair Thomson, eds, The Oral History Reader (London: Routledge, 1998).
Erica Rand, Barbie's Queer Accessories (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995).
Erica Rand, The Ellis Island Snow Globe (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
Daniel Schacter, Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (New
York: Basic, 1997).
Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 14921640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Malcolm Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth, and Popular Memory (New York:
Routledge, 2000).
Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from
Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).
Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and
Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2011).
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural
History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Strand specific reading
Guy Beiner, ‘Negotiations of memory: rethinking 1798 commemoration’, In The Irish
Review, Autumn 2000, No 26, pp.60-70
M. T. Clancy, From memory to written record, England 1066-1307 (1993)
Larry Griffin, "'Generations and Collective Memory' Revisited: Race, Region, and
Memory of Civil Rights," American Sociological Review (August 2004), 544-557.
E. Van Houts, Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200 (1999)
Penny Summerfield, ‘Gender, memory and the second world war’ in Reconstructing
women’s wartime lives. Discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War
(Manchester, 1998) Copy on QOL
5. Historiography of the First World War [Professor Keith Jeffery]
Questions
(1) Much of the historical writing about wars concerns causes: what are the main methodologies for
approaching this topic?
(2) How have political considerations affected writing about the First World War; and how important
are they for our understanding of the war itself?
(3) Should historians make moral judgments about the First World War?
(4) The centenary of the First World War has stimulated much public interest in the conflict: what role
should historical writing and historians play in the commemorative process?
All read:
Annika Mombauer, ‘The Fischer controversy, documents and the “truth” about the origins of the First
World War’, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. xlviii no. 2 (2013), pp 290–314. Ejournal
William Mulligan, ‘The trial continues: new directions in the study of the origins of the First World
War’, English Historical Review, vol. cxxix no. 538, pp 639–66. E-journal
John F. V. Keiger, ‘The war explained: 1914 to present’, in John Horne (ed.), A companion to World
War I (Chichester, 2012), pp 19–31. E-book & hard copy
General reviews
Brian Bond, The unquiet Western Front: Britain’s role in literature and history (Cambridge, 2002).
Brian Bond (ed.), The First World War and British military history (Oxford, 1991).
Paul Fussell, The Great War and modern memory (Oxford, 1975).
Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, ‘Paul Fussell at war’, War in History, vol. 1 no. 1 (Mar. 1994), pp 63–
80. E-journal
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Jay Winter and Antoine Prost, The Great War in history: debates and controversies, 1914 to the
present (Cambridge, 2005), especially chapter 1.
Origins
(The literature on this topic is very voluminous. The following is just a small selection.)
Christopher Clark, The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914 (London, 2012).
Niall Ferguson, The pity of war (London, 1999), chs 1–2.
Niall Ferguson, ‘Germany and the origins of the First World War: new perspectives’, review essay in
Historical Journal, xxxv, no. 3 (Sept. 1992), pp 725–52. E-journal
M. R. Gordon, ‘Domestic conflict and the origins of the First World War: the British and German
cases’, Journal of Modern History, xlvi, no. 2 (June 1974), pp 191–226. E-journal
James Joll, The origins of the First World War (Harlow, 1992).
H. J. W. Koch, The origins of the First World War: Great Power rivalry and German war aims
(Basingstoke, 1984).
Keith Robbins, The First World War (Oxford, 1984).
Margaret MacMillan, The war that ended peace: how Europe abandoned peace for the First World
War (London, 2013).
William Mulligan, The origins of the First World War (Cambridge, 2010).
T. G. Otte, ‘Neo-revisionism or the emperor’s new clothes: some reflections on Niall Ferguson on the
origins of the First World War’ [Review essay], in Diplomacy & Statecraft, xi, no. 1 (Mar.
2000), pp 271–90. E-journal
Hew Strachan, The First World War, i, To arms (Oxford, 2001), part 1.
Niall Ferguson and Paul Kennedy in Jay Winter (ed.) The legacy of the Great War: ninety years on
(Kansas City, MO, 2009).E-book
Course and consequences
(Ditto)
Ian Beckett, The Great War, 1914–1918 (2nd edn: Harlow, 2007).
John Horne (ed.), A companion to World War I (Chichester, 2012). E-book & hard copy
William Mulligan, The great war for peace (New Haven, 2014).
William Philpott, Bloody victory: the sacrifice on the Somme (London, 2009).
Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, The Somme (London, 2005).
Gary Sheffield, Forgotten victory: the First World War: myths and realities (London, 2002).
Gary Sheffield, The Somme (London, 2003).
Hew Strachan, The First World War, i, To arms (Oxford, 2001).
Hew Strachan (ed.), The Oxford illustrated history of the First World War (Oxford, 2014). E-book
Jay Winter (ed.), The Cambridge history of the First World War, 3 vols (Cambridge, 2014).
Jay Winter (ed.) The legacy of the Great War: ninety years on (Kansas City, MO, 2009).E-book
Ireland and the First World War
D. George Boyce, ‘Ireland and the First World War’, History Ireland, vol. ii no. 3 (Autumn 1994), pp
48–53. E-journal
John Horne (ed.), Our war: Ireland and the Great War (Dublin, 2008).
Keith Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War (Cambridge, 2000; paperback edn 2011).
Keith Jeffery, ‘The First World War and the Rising: mode, moment and memory’, in Gabriel Doherty
and Dermot Keogh (eds), 1916: The long revolution (Cork, 2007), pp 86–101.
Kevin Myers, ‘The Irish and the Great War: a case of amnesia’ in Richard English & J. M. Skelly
(eds), Ideas matter: essays in honour of Conor Cruise O’Brien (Dublin, 1985), pp 103–8.
QOL as ‘Myers 1998’
Commemoration in Ireland
Tom Dunne, ‘Commemorations and “shared history”: a different role for historians?’, History Ireland
21:1 (January/February 2013), 10–13. E-journal For his critique of 1798 commemoration, see
Tom Dunne, Rebellions; memoir, memory and 1798 (Dublin, 2004).
Richard Grayson, ‘The place of the First World War in contemporary Irish republicanism in Northern
Ireland’, Irish Political Studies, vol. xxv, no. 3 (Sept. 2010), pp 325–45. E-journal
John Horne and Edward Madigan (eds), Towards commemoration: Ireland in war and revolution,
1912–1923, (Dublin, 2013), especially chapter by David Fitzpatrick, ‘Historians and the
commemoration of Irish conflicts, 1912–23’.
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David Officer, ‘Re-presenting war: the Somme Heritage Centre’, History Ireland, vol. iii, no. 1 (Spring
1995), pp 38–42. E-journal
Helen Robinson, ‘Remembering war in the midst of conflict: First World War commemoration in the
Northern Ireland Troubles’, Twentieth-Century British History, vol. xxi, no. 1 (2010), pp 80–
101. E-journal
Catherine Switzer and Brian Graham, ‘“Ulster’s love in letter’d gold”: the Battle of the Somme and the
Ulster Memorial Tower, 1918–1935’, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. xxxvi no. 2
(2010), pp 183–93. E-journal
Various relevant web-pages
Community Relations Council, ‘Marking anniversaries’ <http://www.communityrelations.org.uk/programmes/marking-anniversaries> (accessed 6 April 2014).
Heritage Lottery Fund, ‘Five projects to explore First World War heritage’, 21 February 2014.:
<http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/FWWHeritageNI.aspx#.U2ERfI9OXIU> (accessed 6
April 2014).
Decade of Centenaries programme: <http://www.decadeofcentenaries.com/about> (accessed 6 April
2014).
‘Background note’ on ‘Reflecting on a decade of War and revolution in Ireland 1912–1923’ conference
programme, Dublin, 23 June 2012: <http://www.universitiesireland.ie/2014/05/conferencereflecting-on-a-decade-of-war-and-revolution-in-ireland-1912-1923-the-road-to-war>
6. Cultural History [Professor Chris Marsh]
All read:
Carlo Ginzburg, The cheese and the worms, London: Routledge, 1981 (also in Penguin). Ordered to No
Alibis on Botanic.
Additional readings and study questions TBA.
MHY7035 Historiography Part 2 – Irish History Strand 2014-15
Convenor: Dr F. McGarry
Time and venue: Thursdays, 4 pm – 6 pm: 6 College Park East/01/037
Week 8 (20 November):
revolution
Revisionism and the Irish historiographical
(Prof. Peter Gray)
Key questions:
(1) What were the historiographical principles underlying the foundation and
early years of Irish Historical Studies?
(2) To what extent did the founders of I.H.S. succeed in transforming the
writing of history in Ireland up to the 1960s?
Reading:
[* = priority reading]
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Thomas Bartlett, ‘A New History of Ireland’, Past & Present, 116 (1987)
*D.G. Boyce and A. O’Day (eds), The making of modern Irish history:
revisionism and the revisionist controversy (London, 1996) esp
introduction and chap 11
*Ciaran Brady, ‘“Constructive and instrumental”: the dilemma of Ireland’s first
“New Historians”’, in C. Brady (ed.), Interpreting Irish history: the debate
on historical revisionism (Dublin, 1994)
Aiden Clarke, ‘Robert Dudley Edwards’, Irish Historical Studies (IHS), 1988
R. Dudley Edwards, ‘T.W. Moody and the origins of Irish Historical Studies’,
IHS, 26 (1988)
Ronan Fanning, ‘The great enchantment: uses and abuses of modern Irish
history’, in C. Brady, Interpreting Irish history (1994)
Ronan Fanning, ‘The meaning of Revisionism’, Irish Review (Spring 1988)
*R.F. Foster, ‘History and the Irish question’, in C. Brady, Interpreting Irish
history (1994)
Raymond Gillespie, ‘Historical revisits: T.W. Moody, The Londonderry
Plantation, 1609-1641 (1939)’, IHS, 29 (1994)
Evi Gkotzaridis, Trials of Irish history: genesis and evolution of a reappraisal,
1938-2000 (London, 2006) [see also review by David Fitzpatrick in History
Ireland, 14:6 (2006)]
E. Gkotzaridis, ‘Revisionist historians and the modern Irish state: the conflict
between the Advisory Committee and the Bureau of Military History, 194766’, IHS 37 (2006)
Alvin Jackson, ‘J.C. Beckett: politics, faith, scholarship’, IHS, 33 (2002)
Matthew Kelly, review of ‘Trials of Irish history: genesis and evolution of a
reappraisal, 1938-2000’, English Historical Review, 123 (2008).
*J.J. Lee, Ireland 1912-85 (Cambridge, 1989) pp. 587-97
F.S.L. Lyons, ‘TWM’ in F.S.L. Lyons and R. Hawkins (ed), Ireland under the
Union (Oxford, 1980)
F.S.L. Lyons, ‘The burden of our history’, in Brady, Interpreting Irish history
(1994)
Lawrence W. McBride (ed), Reading Irish histories (Dublin, 2003)
R.B. McDowell, ‘Interview: McDowell at eighty’ in History Ireland, 1:4 (Winter
1993)
*T.W. Moody, ‘Irish history and Irish mythology’, and ‘A New History of
Ireland’, in C. Brady, Interpreting Irish history (1994)
T.W. Moody, (ed.) Irish historiography, 1936-70 (Dublin, 1971).
*Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘Making history in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s: the
saga of The Great Famine’, in C. Brady, Interpreting Irish history (1994)
Nadia Smith, A ‘manly study’? Irish women historians, 1868-1949 (New York,
2006)
Nadia Smith, ‘Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958): republican and internationalist’,
History Ireland, 15:3 (2007)
A.T.Q. Stewart, The shape of Irish history (Belfast, 2001)
Texts:
Preface in first issue of Irish Historical Studies (1938) [also in Brady, Interpreting
Irish history (1994)]
J.C. Beckett, A short history of Ireland (1952)
Mary Hayden, A Short History of Ireland (1921)
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T.W. Moody, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-1641 (1939)
Week 9 (27 November):
past
Anti-Revisionism and the battle for Ireland's
(Prof. Peter Gray)
Key Questions:
(1) Is ‘anti-revisionism’ simply the revival of a nationalist historiography?
(2) Is it possible to distinguish between ‘anti-revisionism’ and ‘postrevisionism’?
Reading:
[* = priority reading]
*B. Bradshaw, ‘Nationalism and historical scholarship in Ireland’, IHS, 26
(1989) [also in Brady, Interpreting Irish history (1994)]
B. Bradshaw, ‘Revising Irish history’, in D. Ó Ceallaigh (ed.), Reconsiderations
of Irish History and Culture (Dublin: 1994)
B. Bradshaw, ‘Interview’, History Ireland, 1:1 (1993)
Tony Canavan, ‘The profession of history: the public and the past’, in R. Ryan
(ed.), Writing in the Irish Republic 1949-1999 (London, 2000)
L.P. Curtis, ‘The greening of Irish history’, Eire-Ireland, 29 (1994)
*S. Deane, ‘Wherever Green is Read’, D. Kiberd ‘The elephant…’, (and
others) in M. Ni Dhonnchadha and T. Dorgan (eds), Revising the Rising
(Derry, 1991); Deane also in Brady (1994)]
*J. S. Donnelly, ‘The Famine and its interpreters, old and new’, History
Ireland, 1:3 (1993)
T. Eagleton, ‘Revisionism revisited’, in Crazy John and the bishop and other
essays on Irish culture (1998)
R. Fanning, ‘The Great Enchantment: uses and abuses of modern Irish
history’, in Brady (1994).
D. Fennell, Heresy: the battle of ideas in modern Ireland (Belfast, 1993)
*D. Fennell, ‘Against revisionism’, Irish Review, (1998) [Also in Brady (1994)]
*R.F. Foster, ‘We are all revisionists now’, Irish Review, 1 (1986)
R.F. Foster, The Irish story: telling tales and making it up in Ireland (London,
2002)
E. Larkin, ‘Myths, revisionism, and the writing of Irish history’, New Hibernia
Review, 2:2 (1998)
J.J. Lee, ‘“The canon of Irish history – a challenge” reconsidered’, in T. Quinn
(ed.), Desmond Fennell, his life and work (Dublin, 2001)
K. Miller, ‘Revising revisionism: comments and reflections’, in D. Keogh and
M. Haltzel (eds), Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation (1993)
Brian P. Murphy, Patrick Pearse and the lost Republican ideal (Dublin, 1991)
*Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘Making Irish Famine History in 1995’, History Workshop
Jnl, 42 (1996)
*John Regan, ‘Southern Irish nationalism as a historical problem’, Historical
Journal, 50:1 (2007)
* John Regan, ‘Irish public histories as an historiographical problem’, IHS,
37:146 (2010)
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Patrick Walsh, ‘Daniel Corkery’s The Hidden Ireland and revisionism’, New
Hibernia Review, 5:2 (2001)
*K. Whelan, ‘The Revisionist debate in Ireland’, boundary 2, 31:1 (2004)
Week 10 (4 December):
Irish gender history (Dr. Elaine Farrell and Prof.
Mary O’Dowd)
Key questions:
1. Assess the way in which the text books on Irish history by Tom Bartlett,
Diarmaid Ferriter and Alvin Jackson deal with the history of women.
2. Critique the contribution to women's history of the Field Day Anthology
of Irish Writing, Vols 4 and 5.
3. Compose a new agenda for Irish women's history.
4. Compose an agenda for Irish men's history.
Reading list:
- Thomas Bartlett, Ireland: a history (Cambridge, 2010).
- Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, Maria Luddy, Margaret MacCurtain,
Gerardine Meaney, Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Mary O’Dowd and Clair
Wills (eds), Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols 4 and 5 (Cork,
2002).
- Angela Bourke, The burning of Bridget Cleary (New York, 1999).
- Joanna Bourke, Husbandry to housewifery: women, economic change,
and housework in Ireland, 1890-1914 (Oxford, 1993).
- Anthony Bradley and Maryann Valiulis (eds), Gender and sexuality in
modern Ireland (Amherst, 1997).
- Caitriona Clear, Nuns in nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 1987).
- Carolyn A. Conley, ‘No pedestals: women and violence in late
nineteenth-century Ireland’ in Journal of Social History, xxvii, no. 4
(1995), pp 801-18.
- Carolyn A. Conley, Certain other countries: homicide, gender, and
national identity in late nineteenth-century England, Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales (Columbus, 2007).
- Mary Cullen ‘History women and history men: the politics of women’s
history’ in History Ireland, ii, no. 2 (1994), pp 31-6.
- Mary Cullen and Maria Luddy (eds), Women, power and
consciousness in nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 1995).
- Mary E. Daly, Women and work in Ireland (Dublin, 1997).
- Hasia R. Diner, Erin’s daughters in America: Irish immigrant women in
the nineteenth century (London, 1983).
- Lindsey Earner-Byrne, ‘The boat to England: an analysis of the official
reactions to the emigration of single expectant Irishwomen to Britain,
1922-1972’ in Irish Economic & Social History, xxx (2003), pp 52-70.
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Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Mother and child: maternity and child welfare in
Dublin, 1922–60 (Manchester, 2007).
Diarmaid Ferriter, The transformation of Ireland, 1900-2000 (London,
2004).
Judith Harford and Claire Rush (eds), Have women made a difference?
Women in Irish universities, 1850-2010 (Oxford, 2010) [a collection of
chapters based on a women’s history conference at QUB in 2008].
Alan Hayes and Diane Urquhart (eds), The Irish women’s history
reader (London, 2001).
Mona Hearn, Below stairs: domestic service remembered in Dublin and
beyond, 1889-1922 (Dublin, 1993).
Myrtle Hill, Women in Ireland: a century of change (Belfast, 2003).
Janice Holmes and Diane Urquhart (eds), Coming into the light: the
work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1940 (Belfast,
1994).
Alvin Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998: politics and war (Oxford, 1999).
Margaret Kelleher and James H. Murphy (eds), Gender perspectives in
nineteenth-century Ireland: public and private spheres (Dublin, 1997).
Leeann Lane, Rosamond Jacob: third person singular (Dublin, 2010).
Maria Luddy, Prostitution and Irish society, 1800-1914 (Cambridge,
2007).
Maria Luddy, Women and philanthropy in nineteenth century-Ireland
(Cambridge, 1995).
Maria Luddy, Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: a documentary history
(Cork, 1995).
Maria Luddy, Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O’Dowd, ‘An agenda for
Irish women’s history’ in Irish Historical Studies, xxviii, no. 109 (1992),
pp 1-37.
Maria Luddy and Clíona Murphy (eds), Women surviving. Studies in
Irish women’s history in the 19th and 20th centuries (Dublin, 1990) [a
collection of essays that emerged from research undertaken in the
1980s].
Margaret MacCurtain and Thomas O’Loughlin, ‘Sister act’ in History
Ireland, ii, no. 1 (1994), pp 52-4 [interview with Margaret MacCurtain].
Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O’Dowd (eds), Women in early modern
Ireland (Edinburgh, 1991).
Leanne McCormick, Regulating sexuality: women in twentieth-century
Northern Ireland (Manchester, 2009).
Mary Muldowney, The Second World War and Irish women: an oral
history (Dublin, 2007).
Clíona Murphy, The women’s Suffrage movement and Irish society in
the early twentieth century (Hemel Hempstead, 1989).
Mary O’Dowd, A history of women in Ireland, 1500-1800 (Harlow,
2004).
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Mary O’Dowd, ‘From Morgan to MacCurtain: women historians in
Ireland from the 1790s to the 1990s’ in Maryann Gialanella Valiulis and
Mary O’Dowd (eds), Women and Irish history: essays in honour of
Margaret MacCurtain (Dublin, 1997).
Mary O’Dowd and Sabine Wichert (eds), Chattel, servant or citizen.
Women’s status in church, state and society (Belfast, 1995) [a
collection of chapters based on papers presented at the 1993 Irish
Conference of Historians, the first time that the conference had a
gender theme].
Rosemary Cullen Owens, A social history of women in Ireland, 18701970 (Dublin, 2005).
Patrick O’Sullivan (ed.), Irish women and Irish migration (London,
1995).
Pauline Prior, Madness and murder: gender, crime and mental disorder
in nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 2008).
Deirdre Raftery and Susan M. Parkes (eds), Female education in
Ireland 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna (Dublin, 2007).
Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (eds), Irish women and the vote:
becoming citizens (Dublin, 2007).
Louise Ryan, Gender, identity and the Irish press 1922-1937:
embodying the nation (New York, 2001).
Maryann Gialanella Valiulis and Mary O’Dowd, Women and Irish
history: essays in honour of Margaret MacCurtain (Dublin, 1997).
Maryann Gialanella Valiulis (ed.), Gender and power in Irish history
(Dublin, 2008).
Bernadette Whelan (ed.), Women and paid work in Ireland, 1500-1930
(Dublin, 2000).
Deborah Wilson, Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed
families in Ireland, 1750-1850 (Manchester, 2009).
Irish men’s history:
- Nancy Curtin, ‘Women and eighteenth-century Irish republicanism’ in
Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd (eds.), Women in early
modern Ireland (Edinburgh, 1991).
- Padraig Higgins, A nation of politicians: gender, patriotism, and political
culture in late eighteenth-century Ireland (Wisconsin, 2010).
- Margaret Kelleher and James H. Murphy (eds), Gender perspectives in
nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 1997).
- Elizabeth Malcolm, The Irish policeman, 1822-1922: a life (Dublin,
2006).
- Fearghal McGarry, Eoin O’Duffy. A self-made hero (Oxford, 2008).
- Fearghal McGarry, Frank Ryan (Dundalk, 2002).
- Sean O’Connell, ‘From “Toad of Toad Hall” to the “Death Drivers” of
Belfast: an exploratory history of joyriding’ in British Journal of
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Criminology, xlvi (2006) [available online at
http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/azi076?ijkey=7mrR5pV
kV5PRcTy&keytype=ref]
Week 11 (11 December): Beyond the nation: transnational history (Dr
Fearghal McGarry)
Key questions:
When and why did transnational history emerge, and what are its key
concepts?
Why do historians tend to locate their historical narratives within a national
framework?
What are the limitations of this?
What insights might transnational perspectives bring to the Irish revolutionary
period?
To which areas of Irish history could transnational perspectives be applied?
Reading:
Please read one essay on transnational history [*], one essay on
transnational history and modern Ireland [**], and one essay on
transnational history and the Irish revolution [***]
D.H. Akenson, ‘Stepping back and looking around’ in David A. Wilson (ed),
Irish nationalism in Canada (Kingston, 2009)
* C.A. Bayly, Sven Beckert, Matthew Connolly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol
and Patricia Seed, ‘AHR conversation: on transnational history’, American
Historical Review, cxi/5 (Dec. 2006), pp 1441-64
C.A. Bayly, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and
comparisons (Oxford, 2004) [& review by Catherine Hall
(http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/420]
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Patricia Clavin, ‘Defining Transnationalism’, Contemporary European History,
14, (2005), 421-439 Qcat
Barry Crosbie, Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and
Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India (Cambridge, 2011)
** Enda Delaney, ‘Directions in historiography. Our island story? Towards a
transnational history of late modern Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies, xxxvii
(Nov. 2011)
Matthew Pratt Guterl, ‘Comment: The Futures of Transnational
History’, American Historical Review(2013), 130-139
Brian Heffernan (ed.). Life on the Fringe: Ireland and Europe 1800-1922,
(Dublin, 2012)
Akira Iriye, ‘Transnational History’ [review article], Contemporary European
History, 13 (2004), 211–222 Qcat
Kevin Kenny, ‘Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case
Study’, Journal of American History, 90, (2003), 134-162. Qcat
*** Fearghal McGarry, ‘“A Land Beyond the Wave”’: Transnational
Perspectives on Easter 1916, in Niall Whelehan (ed), Transnational
Perspectives on Modern Irish History (London, 2014) QOL
Ciaran O’Neill, Catholics of consequence: transnational education, social
mobility, and the Irish Catholic elite 1850-1900 (Oxford, 2014)
Kiran Patel, ‘Transnational History’, European History Online (QOL &
http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/transnational-history)
Ian Tyrell, ‘Reflections on the transnational turn in United States history:
theory and practice’, Journal of Global History, Volume 4/3 (Nov. 2009). Qcat
** Niall Whelehan, ‘Playing with Scales: Transnational History and Modern
Ireland’, in idem (ed), Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History
(London, 2014)
*** Niall Whelehan (ed), ‘Ireland beyond the nation-state: antecedents of
transnational history in Irish historiography’ (http://www.ed.ac.uk/schoolsdepartments/history-classics-archaeology/history/research/working-papers)
Week 12 (18 December): The writing of Irish Migration History (Dr
Patrick
Fitzgerald)
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Key questions:
(1) How has migration, particularly the concept of diaspora, been reflected
in the writings of historians tracing the evolution of physical force Irish
republicanism between 1798 and 1916?
(2) What evidence have you found in Irish Migration historiography for the
influence of disciplines other than history?
(3) Compare and contrast the attention paid by historians of Dublin and
Belfast since 1600 to the role of internal migration in the growth and
development of the cities?
Reading:
D.H. Akenson, ‘The Historiography of the Irish in the United States’ in P.
O’Sullivan (ed.), The Irish in the New Communities (Leicester, 1992), 99-127
J. Belcham, ‘Introduction: A Piece Cut Off from the Old Sod Itself’ in Irish,
Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool Irish, 1800-1939 (Liverpool,
2007), 1-26
C.B. Brettell & J.F. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory: Talking Across
Disciplines (London, 2000).
E. Delaney, K. Kenny & D. MacRaild, ‘Symposium: Perspectives on the Irish
Diaspora’, Irish Economic and Social History, XXXIII, (2006), 35–58
E. Delaney & D. MacRaild, ‘Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities
Since 1750: An Introduction’ in E. Delaney & D. MacRaild (eds.), Irish
Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750 (London, 2007),
vii-xxi
E. Delaney, ‘Migration and Diaspora’ in Alvin Jackson (ed.), The Oxford
Handbook of
Modern Irish History (Oxford, 2014), 126-47
D.N. Doyle, ‘Cohesion and Diversity in the Irish Diaspora’ in Irish Historical
Studies, 31 (1999), 411-48
P. Fitzgerald & B. Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007
(Basingstoke, 2008).
D. Fitzpatrick, ‘From Emigrant Exiles to Immigrant Gentiles?: Kerby Miller on
the Irish in North America 1985-2003’ in Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review
19, (2003), 1-10
P. Griffin, ‘The Two-Migrations Myth, the Scotch Irish, and Irish American
Experience’ in A.H. Wyndham (ed.), Re-imagining Ireland (Charlottesville,
2006), 244-8
J.J. Lee, ‘The Irish Diaspora in the Nineteenth Century’, in L. Geary and M.
Kelleher, (eds), Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Recent
Research, (Dublin, 2005), 182–222
J.J. Lee, ‘Introduction: Interpreting Irish America’ in J.J. Lee & M.R. Casey
(eds.), Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in
the United States (New York, 2006), 1-60
P. MacÉinrí, ‘Introduction’, in A. Bielenberg (ed.), The Irish Diaspora (London,
2000), 1–15
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T.J. Meagher, ‘The Famine Years’ in T.J. Meagher, The Columbia Guide to
Irish American History (New York, 2005), 60-94
W. Murphy, ‘Conceiving Irish diasporas: Irish migration and migrant
communities in the modern period’ in M. McAuliffe, K. O’Donnell & L.
Lane (eds.), Palgrave Advances in Irish History (Basingstoke, 2009),
127-46
T. O’Connor, ‘Ireland and Europe, 1580-1815: some historiographical
remarks’ in T. O’Connor (ed.), The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815 (Dublin,
2001), 9-26
A. O’Day, ‘Revising the Diaspora’, in Boyce, G. and O’Day, A. (eds), The
Making of Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy,
(London, 1996), 188–215
C. Ó’Grada, ‘Making Irish Famine History in 1995’ in History Workshop
Journal, 42, (1996), 87-104
P. O’Sullivan (ed.), The Irish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity (6 vols.,
Leicester, 1992-7)
P. O’Sullivan, ‘Developing Irish Diaspora Studies: A Personal View’, New
Hibernia Review, 7(1), (2003), 130–48
J.J. Sexton, ‘Emigration and immigration in the twentieth century: an overview’
in J.R. Hill (ed.), A New History of Ireland, vol.7: 1921-1984 (Oxford,
2003), 796-825