HIS 2090 MODERN IRELAND: 1601-PRESENT
This course follows the emergence of modern Ireland from the Elizabethan conquest to the modern period. Special attention will be paid to the experience of conquest and colonization, the impact of the penal laws, the major social dislocation caused by the Potato Famine, modernization, the role of the Catholic Church, the cultural and political influence of the Celtic Revival, and the background to the current situation in Northern Ireland.