Memory and Place

IRST

391

Memory and Place

Contrast of the forms of Irish memory from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Britain, and America. Primary documents of historiography, folklore, textual, musical, and visual sources from Ireland will be compared with those from Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as those from the immigrant diaspora in the United States. Students will examine diverse memories of such pivotal events in Irish history as the 1641 atrocities; the Cromwellian conquest and confiscations; the Famine; and the conflict in Northern Ireland. Topics for study include: how memory is contested by different groups, often according to their own particular interests; how recent historiography on the subject of memory in Ireland has opened debate on received interpretations; understanding what constitutes a primary document, including music, murals, monuments or films, serving as documents of memory.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes