HI4001: SPECIAL SUB.: IRISH TROUBLES (2019-2020)

This course examines the events known collectively as the “Irish Troubles”. That is, the origins, development and partial conclusion of non-violent and violent opposition to the continuation of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the mid-1960s until the present day. Topics to be covered include the origins, nature and organization of Northern Ireland; the Ulster Unionist Party; Irish nationalism; the civil rights movement; the IRA and provisional IRA; paramilitary loyalism; political loyalism; the Republic of Ireland and Irish republicanism; the United Kingdom and Ulster Unionism; paramilitary tactics; counter-insurgency tactics; the Hunger Strikes; the ‘Long War’; the origins of the peace process; the Good Friday Agreement and its aftermath; dissident republicanism. Particular attention is paid to the leading personalities involved in the Troubles as well as the competing understandings of Irish (or Ulster, or British) identity that underpinned much of the conflict. The study of original documents and autobiographical accounts as well as popular representations (especially film) forms an integral part of the course.

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