Week 6

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Topics

The Question of Ulster
Ireland at War, 1914-1916

Tutorial Focus Question

Was Unionism's retreat to Ulster a necessary step to ensure its survival?

Essential Reading

Buckland, Patrick, 'Carson, Craig and the Partition of Ireland, 1912-21', in Peter Collins, (ed.), Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921 (Belfast, 1994), pp. 75-89.

Recommended Readings

• Bardon, Jonathan, A History of Ulster (Belfast, 2001).
• Boyce, D. George, Nationalism in Ireland (3rd.ed., London, 1995) [short loan].
• Boyce, D. George and Alan O'Day (eds.), Defenders of the Union: a survey of British and Irish Unionism since 1801 (London, 2001) [short loan].
• Fitzpatrick, David, 'Militarism in Ireland, 1900-1922', in Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery (eds.), A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 379Ð406.
• ---. The two Irelands, 1912-1939 (Oxford, 1998) [short loan]
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
• ---. 'Irish Unionism, 1870-1922', in Boyce, D. George and Alan O'Day (eds.), Defenders of the Union: a survey of British and Irish Unionism since 1801 (London, 2001), pp. 115-136. [short loan].
• Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912-1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989) [short loan].
• Loughlin, James, Ulster Unionism and British national identity since 1885 (London, 1995) [short loan].
• A. T. Q. Stewart, The Ulster Crisis (London, 1967).
  

Lecture Outlines

The Question of Ulster

1. Foundations of Ulster Unionism
2. Mobilisation against Home Rule
3. A covenant signed in blood

Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Faithful Tribe
Alvin Jackson on Unionism
Jeremy Smith, The Tories and Ireland (Dublin, 2000)
Peep o'Day Boys
'Wilson's Orange Boys Society'
Battle of Garvagh
Dolly's Brae
Edward Saunderson
Randolph Churchill
Ulster Unionist Council
Edward Carson
William Craig
Craigavon
Bonar Law
Curragh Mutiny 

 

Ireland at War, 1914 - 1916

1. The Martial Spirit
2. War and Home Rule
3. International Reactions

Protestant Boy's Brigade
Church Lad's Brigade
Fianna Éirann
Eoin MacNeill
Irish Volunteers
Cumann na mBan
John Redmond
Patrick Pearse
Bulmer Hobson
Tom Barry
Willie Redmond
John Devoy
Clan na Gael
John Gavan Duffy
Woodenbridge
Major Bryan Cooper
Irish World
Archbishop Duhig