Week 3

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Topics

The Politics of Repeal
The Great Irish Famine

Tutorial Focus Question

Was the 1798 Rising a ‘national’ event or a series of independent local affairs?

Essential Reading

Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 (Oxford, 1999), pp.6-22.

Recommended Readings

• Bartlett, Thomas, The fall and rise of the Irish nation: The Catholic Question 1690-1830 (Dublin, 1992) [short loan].
• Curtin, Nancy, The United Irishmen: popular politics in Ulster and Dublin, 1791-1798 (Oxford, 1994)
• Dickson, David, New foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 (2nd ed., Dublin, 2000) [short loan].
• Dunne, Tom, 'Rebel motives and mentalities: the battle for New Ross, 5 June 1798', Éire-Ireland XXXIV (No. 2, 1999), 5-27.
• Elliott, Marianne, Wolfe Tone, prophet of Irish independence (New Haven, Conn., 1989).
• Keogh, Dáire & Nicholas Furlong (eds.), The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford (Dublin, 1996) [short loan].
• Keogh, Dáire & Nicholas Furlong (eds.), The women of 1798 (Dublin, 1998)
• McBride, Ian, 'Reclaiming the rebellion: 1798 in 1998', Irish Historical Studies XXXI (May, 1999), pp. 395-410 [short loan].
• O'Donnell, Ruán, The rebellion in Wicklow, 1798 (Dublin, 1998).
• Smyth, Jim (ed.), Revolution, counter-revolution and union: Ireland in the 1790s (Cambridge, 2000) [short loan].
• Whelan, Kevin, The tree of liberty: radicalism, Catholicism, and the construction of Irish identity, 1760-1830 (Cork, 1996) [short loan].

Lecture Outlines
The Politics of Repeal

1. Daniel O'Connell
2. Catholic Emancipation
3. The Campaign for Repeal

Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847)
Oliver MacDonagh (2 vol. Biography)
Adam Smith
Jeremy Bentham
William Godwin
Catholic Association
Tithe War
Catholic Rent
Brunswick Clubs
Litchfield House Agreement / O'Connell-Whig Alliance
Monster Rallies
Sir Robert Peel
Young Ireland

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Great Irish Famine

1. The Dimensions of the Crisis
2. Relief
3. Meaning of the Famine

James S. Donnelly, The Great Irish Potato Famine
Cormac O Grada, Black 47 and Beyond
phytophthora infestans
George Templeton Strong
Father Mathew Theobald
William Steuart Trench
Charles Trevelyan
Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger (1962)
Edwards and Williams, The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History (1958)