Week 3

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Topics

The Politics of Repeal
The Great Irish Famine

Tutorial Focus Question

'...the trouble with commemorative history is that, if those distant people were saying unwelcome things, it is all too tempting to put words in their mouths.' (Roy Foster, p.94) Discuss Foster's observation in relation to remembrances of 1798.

Essential Reading

Foster, Roy, 'Remembering 1798', in Ian McBride (ed.), History and Memory in Modern Ireland (Cambridge, 2001), pp.67-94.

Recommended Readings

• Collins, Peter, 'The contest of memory: the continuing impact of 1798 commemmorations', Eire-Ireland XXXIV (No.2, 1999), pp.28-50 [short loan].  
• Kinsella, Anna, '1798 claimed for Catholics: Father Kavanagh, Fenians and the centenary celebrations', in Keogh, Dáire & Nicholas Furlong (eds.), The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford (Dublin, 1996) pp.139-56 [short loan].
• McBride, Ian, 'Reclaiming the rebellion: 1798 in 1998', Irish Historical Studies XXXI (May, 1999), pp. 395-410 [short loan].
• O'Keefe, Timothy, 'The 1898 efforts to celebrate the United Irishmen: the '98 centennial', Eire-Ireland XXIII (No.2, 1988),pp.51-73 [short loan].
• ---. '"Who fears to speak of '98": The rhetoric and rituals of the United Irishmen centennial, 1898, Eire-Ireland XXVIII (No.3, 1992), pp.67-91 [short loan].
• Paseta, Senia, '1798 in 1998: the politics of commemmoration', Irish Review XII (1998) [see the course convenor]. 
• Smyth, Jim (ed.), Revolution, counter-revolution and union: Ireland in the 1790s (Cambridge, 2000), pp.1-20 [short loan].
• Whelan, Kevin, The tree of liberty: radicalism, Catholicism, and the construction of Irish identity, 1760-1830 (Cork, 1996) [short loan].
• ---. Fellowship of Freedom: the United Irishmen and 1798 (Cork, 1998).

 

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)