Week 11

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Topics

The Troubles (2)
An Irish Renaissance

Tutorial Focus Questions

‘The true cause of the Troubles was the crisis of Catholic alienation in a vehement and inflexible Protestant state.’ Discuss.

Essential Reading

• The Troubles: Document package on the course website.
• Elliott, Marianne, The Catholics of Ulster (New York, 2001), pp.373-428.
  
  

Recommended Readings

• 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].
• Bruce, Steve, God save Ulster: the religion and politics of Paisleyism (Oxford, 1986) [short loan].
• ---. The Edge of the Union: the Ulster Loyalist Political Vision (Oxford, 1994) [short loan].
• Coogan, Tim Pat, The I.R.A. (London, 1995) [short loan].
• ———. The Troubles (London, 1995).
• Edwards, Ruth Dudley, The faithful tribe: an intimate portrait of the loyal institutions (London, 1999) [short loan].
• Elliott, Marianne, The Catholics of Ulster (New York, 2001) [short loan].
• Finnegan, Richard, Ireland: historical echoes, contemporary politics (Boulder, 2000).
• Foster, Roy, Modern Ireland, 1600–1972 (London, 1988) [short loan].
• Fraser, T. G. Ireland in conflict, 1922-1998 (London, 2000) [short loan].
• Hennessey, Thomas, A history of Northern Ireland: 1920-1996 (London, 1997) [short loan].
• Hoppen, K. Theodore, Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity (London, 1999) [short loan].
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
• Keogh, Dermot, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994) [short loan].
• Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912–1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989) [short loan].
• Loughlin, James, The Ulster question since 1945 (New York, 1998) [short loan].
  Mulholland, Mark, The longest war: Northern Ireland's troubled history (London, 2002) [short loan].
• Rose, Peter, How the Troubles came to Northern Ireland (London, 2000) [short loan].
• Stewart, A. T. Q. The narrow ground: the roots of conflict in Ulster (London, 1993) [short loan].
• Taylor, Peter, Loyalists (London, 2000) [short loan].
• ———. Provos: the IRA and Sinn Fein (London, 1998) [short loan].
• Townshend, C. Ireland—the twentieth century (London, 1999) [short loan].
• Wichert, Sabine, Northern Ireland since 1945 (2nd ed., London, 1999) [short loan].
  
  

Lecture Outlines

The Troubles

Challenges to Unionism
War
Stalemate

Ireland Act
Border War
Clement Atlee
Lord Brookeborough
Terence O'Neill
Sean Lemass
Rev. Ian Paisley
Ulster Constitution Defence Committee
CDU (Campaign for Democracy in Ulster)
1967 NICRA (Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association)
Cameron Report
Dungannon
James Chichester-Clark
Brian Faulkner
Apprentice Boy's March
Bernadette Devlin
Maze Prison
Sunningdale

An Irish Renaissance?

The 'New Ireland', 1960s-1980s
Second Vatican Council (1962-65)
Pope John XXIII
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Charles Houghey
Albert Reynolds
Garrett FitzGerald
Liam Cosgrave
John Hume
SDLP
Bertie Ahern
Taoiseach
Mary McAleese