HIS 2077 IRELAND AND ITS DIASPORA
Ireland is one of the world's great "diasporic" societies and has been for a very long time. This course will examine the circumstances that made Ireland into a country that exported its population...from the Gaelic émigré nobility of the 16th and 17th centuries to the political dissidents of the 18th and early 19th century, from the outpouring of the victims of famine and poverty in the mid and late 19th century to the Catholic missionaries of the "Irish Spiritual Empire" and the educated offspring of the "Celtic Tiger' in the 20th. It will examine the social, economic, and political trends that lay behind this continuous outward movement of population, it will also look at the impact of immigrants on their host countries and their continued connection with the land they left behind.
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