UCD School of History and Archives

Herodotus

Herodotus (479-431 BC) - a Greek merchant widely regarded as the world's first historian. He wrote The

Histories on the wars between the Greek city states and Persia.

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WELCOME TO HISTORY

Welcome to UCD History & Archives. Whether you intend staying with us for just a few modules or for all your undergraduate career, we want you to enjoy and be challenged by reading history. At Level One, you have the chance to study topics ranging from the fall of the Roman Empire to modern Irish history, taught by some of Ireland's leading historians. We hope it will give you a flavour of what history at UCD has to offer. Good Luck. Professor Richard Aldous Head of School This guide contains basic information that you will need while studying History at UCD, including guidance on writing, reading and teaching methods. Please read it carefully and ask for advice if you need clarification or further information.

INFORMATION & SUPPORT History forms part of the School of History and Archives. The History office is on the first floor of the Newman Building at K107. The staff there will be happy to help you with any queries. The main School notice-board, in the JK area of the first floor landing, displays the syllabus for all three levels. Remember to check your account on the student web,

http://www.ucd.ie/sisadmin/stuweb. This will give you access to programme and registration details. The second board, beside K115X, is where your lecturer and teaching assistant will post information. The remaining boards contain general History news. In addition, the majority of teaching staff have offices in the JK area. The School web page,

http://www.ucd.ie/historyarchives, includes up-to-date information on the School and syllabus.

University throws up a range of exciting challenges. Occasionally you may feel you need help and support in surmounting them. If you have questions about your modules or need individual assistance, you are welcome to approach the School Administration at room K107.

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TEACHING & LEARNING

WHO CAN STUDY HISTORY? Many of you have taken History at Leaving Certificate. Some of you have not. Either way you can study it in UCD. Our Level 1 modules will introduce you to major areas of Irish and European History. We will teach you to read and analyse intelligently so that you can develop your own interpretation of the past. In Levels 2 and 3 students have the opportunity to study not only Irish and European history but also American, Australian and Asian history.

Books - a student's best friend

HISTORY & UCD HORIZONS

UCD Horizons offers the student greater flexibility in shaping their degree. For incoming students, the School offers four ways of taking History, which are laid out in the table below: History as a Major (20 credit pathway)

Semester 1

� HIS 10080: Rome to Renaissance

� HIS 10050: Doing History 1

Semester 2

� HIS 10070: The Making of Modern Europe

� HIS 10060: Doing History 2

History as a Minor (10 credit pathway)

� Students may choose one module from each semester.

History as an Elective (5 credit pathway)

Other students may choose any one of the four modules. Single Subject Honours Entry

� Students entering History through Single Subject (History as a single subject) take a module on Historiography .

Further information for pathways at Levels 2 and 3 are available on the website.

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WHAT TEACHING METHODS ARE USED? Studying History involves lectures, seminars, reading, writing, debate and discussion. Lectures are designed to introduce you to the main issues involved in the modules and to methods of interpretation. Weekly seminars provide you with training in valid argument, both written and verbal. You can access details through your student web account. What is expected of you?

Your study of History will be more rewarding if you keep in mind what you need to do each week.

This normally involves attending lectures, reading set texts and discussing your reading in

seminars.

Attendance:

For each History module you will normally have one lecture and one seminar per week. This applies for ten out of the twelve weeks, the other two being ‘Reading Weeks’. Lectures are designed to introduce you to the main issues involved in the modules, while seminars allow you to address these issues in greater depth, and provide you with training in valid argument, both written and verbal. Attendance is compulsory and it counts as part of your grade. Only in the case of illness or other pressing reasons [http://www.ucd.ie/registry/academicsecretariat/pol_ext_circum_proforma.doc] are students permitted to miss a class. It is very important for a satisfactory performance in a History module that you maintain good attendance. Reading:

Reading is essential to the study of History. In most History modules you will have specific reading set for each week. This reading provides the basis of the seminars, and usually forms the basis for assessment in essays and exams. In addition, your module coordinator will provide you with a more general list of recommended texts for background reading. You are not expected to read everything written on your subject, but by familiarising yourself with a range of texts you will gain a fuller picture of your lecture and seminar topics. Participation:

Learning History at university is not just about taking notes from a lecturer or private study. It is also involves interaction with your fellow-students and your lecturers in seminar groups. In these groups, you and other students will discuss a particular topic or text. The discussion could be based around a question e.g. What were the causes of the French revolution? Why were the barbarians able to sack Rome? Or it could be based around documents e.g. letters of Irish emigrants to America after the Famine, newspaper reports of the 1916 Rising, a Soviet propaganda film. You are expected to make a good contribution to your group by doing the required reading each week, and by taking part in these discussions. Writing:

At certain points during semester, usually in the middle and at the end, you are required to write an essay or an exam. These assessments are normally related to topics you have worked on in lectures and seminars and in your reading. You will be given advice and assistance in seminars on how to write a History essay at university level. During semester there are two ‘Reading Weeks’, one mid-term, the other at the end of term, which allow you to catch up on reading and to prepare your essay. But as a rule, students who are most successful in their written assessments are those who have worked consistently through the semester.

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The lecturers are listed in the module information below. They will have their consultation times posted outside their office doors. You are welcome to call up to see them during those times with questions and queries relating to your work.

Imagining future history

ASSESSMENT & EXAMINATION Continuous assessment coursework will be assigned in seminars and attendance is obligatory. Work must be submitted on time, unless there is a valid medical reason. Please make yourself familiar with the procedure to follow if you think you will require an extension to your submission date. The first semester coursework, per module, will consist of a formative exercise worth 30% of the total mark for the module and a take home exam worth 60% of the total mark for the module. The remaining 10% is based on seminar attendance. The second semester coursework, per module, will consist an essay worth 30% of the total mark for the module. There will be a two hour written exam, per module, at the end of the semester, worth 60%. Continuous assessment worth a further 10% will be awarded to each student based on attendance at seminars.

Eoin MacNeill, President of the Irish Volunteers, Free State Minister,

Professor of Early (including Medieval) Irish History, UCD

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STUDYING & WRITING

LIBRARY & ELECTRONIC RESOURCES History is the study of the human past. We cannot visit it in a time machine, but we can begin to understand it through documents, books and web-based resources. As such, you should familiarise yourself with the Library straightaway. This guide contains the reading requirements for your 1st Year modules. The books listed are all available in the Library. There are many other relevant books there that you can also consult. You should learn to navigate the computerised catalogue and get to know the call numbers for books. These indicate their shelving areas. You can use the Library webpage (http://www.ucd.ie/library) to access electronic resources that you will find helpful in your work. In addition, the internet contains many invaluable sites. The School of History and Archives webpage suggests useful links

(www.ucd.ie/historyarchives).

A useful study guide for history can also be found on www.palgrave.com/skills4study/subjectareas/history/index.asp.

Your lecturers will offer guidance as well. Remember that many sites may contain misleading information and you are advised to vet the accuracy of the information that you acquire online.

TIPS ON READING

To study History you need to read. This takes time and requires basic skills, skills which your seminar work will develop. There are no short cuts, but the following tips will help: � Start with the basics: each module has core texts that you should buy. They will not give you the

answers but they will provide basic information and ideas. � Go from the general to the particular: always begin with a general book to get the wider picture.

� Move on to the detail: to back up core texts you will need to read other books and articles available in the library.

� Use the table of contents and the index intelligently: there is no need always to read a book from cover to cover.

� Make sure the information is correct: this is especially important if you are using websites. � Take notes: never imagine that you can just remember what is in a book, article or website; you

should always record the source of the note, so that you can cite it later in your written work. � Use your own words: never just copy a source word for word because this can lead to plagiarism.

WRITING ESSAYS Studying and reading are good beginnings but you must also learn to express your ideas clearly and correctly in writing. You will fail to communicate them if they are obscured through spelling or bad grammar, so be accurate in both. Remember that errors cost marks. Read over your assignments when you have finished them and check for mistakes. Every student should make use of a dictionary. To avoid constant repetition of the same words you are advised to consult a thesaurus as well. Moreover, many books offer guidance on writing

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English, among them Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English (Harmondsworth 1973), Robert Mohr, How to Write: Tools for the Craft (Dublin, 1998), R. L. Trask, The Penguin Guide to

Punctuation (London, 1997), Martin Manser and Stephen Curtis, The Penguin Writer's Manual (London, 2002) and Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves (London, 2003).

Those writing essays in the School of History and Archives should compile footnotes and bibliography according to the recommended style sheet (www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/essays).

Students are also strongly recommended to download the School cover sheet and attach it to each essay when it is submitted. You are also asked to know the name of your lecturer/teaching assistant when filling in the cover sheet. This makes the grading process faster and avoids essays getting misplaced.

It is important that you familiarize yourselves with the procedures of submission of coursework, and the penalties which are imposed for late submission.

CITATION IN ESSAYS History essays should use the citation style described on the Web page at http://www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/stylesheet.htm. For more detail, see Chicago Manual of Style, 15h edition or the student manual by Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers, 6th ed. (Chicago, 1996). If you wish to use the Endnote citation software (available on the NAL to students), you should use the output style for American Historical Review. They may seem complicated at first but will soon become second nature. Remember that the main aim of footnote and bibliographic citation is to make the source of your information clear to you and to your reader. Ultimately, it will greatly enhance your learning and reading experience.

Writing the early history of Ireland: The Annals of the Four Masters (UCD Archives)

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LEVEL 1 MODULES SEMESTER 1

HIS 10080 Rome to Renaissance Professor Edward James and Dr Melissa Pollock

The thousand years between the fall of the western Roman Empire and the revival of Roman culture in theRenaissance, known as the Middle Ages, were once dismissed as a period of stagnation and superstition. Historians now see them as an exciting period of ferment, innovation and creativity, knowledge of which is essential for an understanding of modern Europe. This module, through lectures and seminars, introduces students to some of the most significant topics in medieval history, including the barbarian invasions, the spread of Christianity and Islam, the Vikings, the Crusades and the Black Death.

The Black Death: A mass grave

HIS 10050 Doing History 1 Professor Michael Laffan

The module is designed to ease and accelerate students' transition from school to university, and to encourage them to look at History in new and exciting ways. It aims to show that History is not simply `the past' it is also what historians `do'. Events which should be relatively familiar to most students, the 1916 Easter Rising and the beginning of the Irish Revolution, are examined from various standpoints. Among these are: a `straight' narrative account of the background and course of the rebellion; a discussion of how and why historians have approached it in different ways, and how these ways have changed over time; an assessment of the different types of evidence they use, and of how reliable the evidence is likely to be; and a preliminary investigation of the differences between primary and secondary sources. This will lead to discussions about some practical aspects of studying History.

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SEMESTER 2

HIS 10070 Modern Europe 1500-2000 Dr Sandy Wilkinson and Dr William Mulligan

This course will explore the making of modern Europe, covering the period from 1500 to 2000. We will look at major landmarks in Europe's social, political, and economic development: the expansion of Europe into the Americas, the breakup of a single Western Christendom into competing religious communities, witchcraft, war in the early modern world, the industrial revolution, political religions from Robespierre to Hitler, European Imperialism, war in the modern world, and economic developments from 1800 to 1950. The course will conclude with a survey of European history since the Second World War The course will be structured around one lecture and one seminar per week. In the seminars, students will deliver presentations. We will also explore - as a class- a range of primary sources.

The ‘Tricoteuses’ – women knitting at the foot of the guillotine during the French revolutionary Terror

HIS 10060 Doing History 2 Dr Ivar McGrath

The module is designed to ease and accelerate students' transition from school to university, and to encourage them to look at History in new and exciting ways. It aims to show that History is not simply `the past', it is also what historians `do' Students completing the module should have begun to appreciate how History is studied at university level. They should have acquired a critical approach to evidence and an ability to study and learn more effectively. And they should have developed their powers of expression, both orally and in writing.

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LEVEL 2 MODULES SEMESTER 1

Core modules:

HIS 20560 20th C War and Peace Dr Robert Gerwarth & Professor Scott Kauffman

This module offers a survey of the `short’ twentieth century from an international perspective. We start with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and move chronologically towards the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Particular emphasis is given to the three great conflicts of the century - World War I, World War II, and the Cold War - and the shifting balance of power in Europe and Asia. In tutorials and essays you will be asked to explore the controversial debates that surround this period. Special prominence is given to the policies of the Great Powers, and the major ideological forces that shaped them.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) – Bolshevik leader and ruler of Russia 1917-24

HIS 20460 Islam and Crusades Dr Edward Coleman & Dr Elva Johnston

Who was Mohammad and what was his message? Why was Islam so successful? How did it transform the ancient world? This module will begin by examining the way Mohammad's revolutionary new message gave rise to a vibrant culture that changed the east and west forever. It will then go onto explore the origins of Islam, examine the career of Mohammad and assess the expansion of Islam and its impact on the early middle ages up to c. 900. The second part of the module will concentrate on the history of the Crusades and the Latin East between the 11th and 13th centuries c. 1095-1291. Attention will also be given to the 'pre-history' of the Crusade and the so-called 'Later Crusade of the 14th and 15th centuries. Students will be expected to familiarise themselves with the main events of the Crusades and will be encouraged to consider the Crusades from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on the long-term historical legacy of the Crusades in the Christian and Muslim worlds. Students will be introduced to the rich body of primary sources in translation relating to the topic.

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A Space Sacred to three faiths: the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

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HIS 20480 Origins of WWI Dr William Mulligan

The outbreak of war in July 1914 came as a surprise to most contemporaries, marking the beginning of the`seminal catastrophe’ of the twentieth century. Yet politicians and historians have argued that the origins of the war had deep roots in the development of international politics since the late nineteenth century. They attributed responsibility for the outbreak of the war to a vareity of causes - the aggression of the Great Powers, the overwhelming influence of military elites, the belligerent nationalism of popular opinion, the imperial rivalries in Africa and Asia, and the frailties of the capitalist system. In recent years, influenced by the ending of the Cold War, globalisation, and more extensive archival research, historians have revised the history of international relations before 1914. This course will assess the origins of the First World War in the light of this new research. HIS 20300 US History Professor Scott Kauffman

The purpose of this course is to examine America’s involvement in the Vietnam war from the end of World War II until the reunification of Vietnam in 1975. While we will spend some time on battles, much of this class will be devoted to the diplomatic and social aspects of the war. Furthermore, because the conflict in Vietnam did not involve just the United States and the two Vietnams, we will take time to examine the role played by other nations, particularly the Soviet Union and China. HIS 20540 Ireland's Elections Dr Ciara Meehan

This course surveys the development of electioneering in Ireland from Daniel O’Connell to Election ’07. The course will look at how campaigns are put together, and will consider what makes or breaks an election. It will examine three distinct phases: pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. Particular campaigns will be used to illustrate the style of electioneering in each phase. Some of the topics covered include: monster meetings, cinema vans, electioneering by air and rail, the television election, predicting elections, and the role of spin doctors. The broad time span will provide a framework for an analysis of the lines of continuity and change in techniques. Comparisons with also be drawn with Britain, setting Irish methods in a wider context.

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HIS 20580 Poland and the Poles between Partitions and Independence, 1795-1989

Dr Patryk Babyricki

The course will be an overview of two centuries Polish history, since the disappearance of the Polish state from the map of Europe to the end of the communist era. The themes of the course will include: the formation of Polish national identities, nationalism, relations between the elites and society, the role of the Catholic Church, Polish-Jewish relations, high and popular culture. HIS 20450 A History of Dublin Dr Gillian O'Brien

This course offers a detailed examination of the development of Dublin city from the 1660s to the modern day. Social, cultural, architectural and artistic developments in the city provide the primary focus of the course. There will be particular emphasis on the development of Georgian Dublin. The influence of the Wide Streets Commission, the construction of grand Georgian Squares and the shift of wealth from the north to the south side of the city are among the topics discussed. Dubliners and their experience of the city is important. We will look at how the great Georgian houses of the eighteenth century became the tenements of the nineteenth century. How the very poor survived and the very rich thrived is examined. Maps are a vital source and there are a number that chart the development of the city. Using maps such as John Roque’s and those published by the Ordinance Survey we will consider the development of the Dublin suburbs. Visual and literary images including paintings, film, photography, fiction and poetry will be used to discuss perceptions of the city. There is a wealth of accessible material both primary and secondary for this course. Extracts from travel writers such as John Carr, The Stranger in Ireland and John Gamble, Sketches of History, will be provided alongside a series of contemporary and modern visual images, including prints, maps and satirical cartoons.

Select Reading: Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860; Edward McParland, Public Architecture in

Ireland 1680-1760; Gillian O’Brien & Finola O’Kane (eds), Georgian Dublin; Christine Casey, Dublin: An Architectural Guide; Mary E. Daly, Dublin. The Deposed Capital; Joseph Brady & Anngret Simms, (eds), Dublin through Space and Time (c.900-c1900); Peter Clark & Raymond Gillespie (eds), Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500-1840.

SEMESTER 2

Core modules:

HIS 20490 Early Modern Religion and State Dr Tadhg O’hAnnrachain

This is a course which examines a number of critically important processes which shaped the history of Early Modern Europe in general and which found a particular expression in Ireland. The European Reformations are one of the great watersheds of world history and this course will examine their origins, the nature of what was at stake in religious debate, the nature of religious difference and the development of the confessional map of Europe. In tandem the course will analyse the evolution of early modern states as they reacted to such stresses and processes as the Reformations, the discovery of the "New" World, endemic warfare, economic change and intellectual ferment. These general themes will all inform the Irish section of the course which will, however, deliver a close analysis of the particular form which religious change and English state-building took within the island.

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HIS 20470 Modern America Dr Maurice Bric & Dr David Doyle

This course will survey the evolution of the United States from the consolidation of American independence until the outbreak of WWI. It will address issues such as the evolution of party politics, the opening up of the west, the lead-up to the Civil War and the various platforms of reform that were promoted at popular level during the nineteenth century. The post-civil war lectures will address the impact of Emancipation as well as the impact of industrialisation and the 'new' immigration and the background to US involvement in WWI.

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HIS 20420 Ireland and Empire Dr Ivar McGrath

This module will investigate the role and place of Ireland in the British empire from the late fifteenth century to the end of the War of Independence in 1921. The traditional view of Ireland’s place within the empire is that of the victim – colonised, coerced, exploited and subjected. This module will address these existing perceptions, but will also examine Ireland’s more active – or culpable – contribution to empire, particularly in relation to finance and the military. While the role of the Irish in relation to exploration, trade and colonisation in the various parts of the empire will be examined, particular attention will be paid to the changing political, constitutional, religious, social, cultural and economic relationship between England and Ireland within the imperial context. HIS 20570 Sport and Modern Society Dr Paul Rouse

This course will examine the role of sport in modern British and Irish history. It will trace the emergence and development of modern sporting organisations from the anarchic rituals of the peasantry and the leisure pursuits of the aristocracy. Essentially, the course will seek to explain this process and its importance. The course will also offer a detailed study of the political, social, cultural and economic context and relevance of sporting organisations. Amongst the themes explored will be the manner in which the formal organisation of sport was involved in notions of education, religion, class and the prosecution of war. Ultimately, these themes will be drawn together to assess the relationship between sport and modern society. HIS 20410 Barbarian Invasions Professor Edward James

In the fourth and fifth centuries the Roman Empire is overrun by Goths, Huns, Vandals, Franks, Saxons, Picts, Scots and many other peoples from beyond the Roman frontiers. What was the reaction of Romans to these cataclysmic events? Are we really dealing with invasions, or are most of the barbarians either migrants, or refugees, or simply underpaid Roman soldiers? What can historians and archaeologists reconstruct of what actually happened? This module will look at these questions through a study of a selection of the surviving sources. HIS 20430 History of Film Professor Patrick McGilligan

The history of narrative film begins with the Lumiere brothers but encompasses German Expressionism, Soviet film theory, D.W. Griffith and other silent film giants, straight through to talkies, the New Wave, the Steadicam, and the works of modern masters. This course will chart the major technological breakthroughs, stylistic influences, key approaches, language

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and components of film production, while screening major works of personal, artistic, and international filmmaking. Readings and discussion will augment the screenings. HIS 20330 Australia's Empire Professor Stuart Ward

This course seeks to unravel the enigma of imperialism in Australian history. As the title implies, it raises the fundamental question of empire and historical agency. For over a generation, Australians have become accustomed to thinking of the `British’ Empire as something external to Australian historical experience – a passing phase which, although crucial to Australia’s origins, was primarily driven by impulses and agencies originating overseas. This course, however, invites students to consider how `Australia’s Empire’ was as much the project of the colony as of the metropole, as much the product of the Australian imagination as of the British Colonial Office. Several key issues will be addressed. Most fundamentally, there is the enduring theme of European culture, material and ideas transmitted to a colonial setting and thereby transformed. The Australian colonies were never mere `repetitions of England’ as Anthony Trollope would have it (`English life all over again’), but places with their own internal dynamic and agency. Secondly, `Australia’s Empire’ reflects the many ways in which `Empire’ meant different things to Australians in comparison with their British (and for that matter, other settler-colonial) counterparts. While settlers inevitably brought metropolitan attitudes and orientations with them, they would nonetheless adopt a conception of Empire and Britishness that was subtly attuned to their colonial coordinates. Thirdly, the course foregrounds the role of Australians as Empire-builders themselves, not only in asserting their sovereignty over the Australian continent and its Indigenous peoples, but also in promoting an imperial programme of their own in the Pacific.

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LEVEL 3 MODULES SEMESTER 1

Core modules:

HIS 30620 Culture, Society and Inter-War Europe Dr Judith Devlin and Dr David Kerr This module explores the cultural politics of the inter-war years, analysing key developments in European society, cultural production and reception. Topics will include the new woman, mass culture and the city, propaganda and mass mobilisation, cinema and society.

HIS 30020 Vikings Mr Charles Doherty and Professor Edward James

This module takes as its theme the whole experience of Scandinavians between the early ninth and late eleventh centuries, but will concentrate on Scandinavia itself and on the Scandinavian settlers in Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and North America. There will be discussion of the archaeological evidence and the evidence from inscriptions, but there will be particular attention paid to the Viking poetry and other literature written in Iceland. All students will be expected to familiarise themselves with at least one Icelandic saga in translation.

Options:

HIS 30400 Madness and Civilisation

Dr Catherine Cox

The course will explore the relationship between madness and society from the 18th century to the present day. We will seek to understand lay explanations of mental disorder which were often rooted in cultural, religious and intellectual frameworks. We will examine patients' accounts of their experiences and medical practitioners' understanding of and responses to madness. We will examine the rise of an institutional approach to the treatment of mental disorder from 18th-century private 'mad-houses' to vast establishments of the late 19th century. We will explore the debate surrounding treatment outside an asylum context and the shift to 'care in the community' with its mixed outcome at the end of the 20th century. HIS 30190 Sexuality in Early Ireland

Dr Elva Johnston

Is sexual identity simply biological? Are men always masculine and women always feminine? These questions lie at the heart of the Classical and Christian roots of westen attitudes towards sex, health and physiology. They underlie the organisation of society and are explored in some of the earliest texts written in Ireland. This module will look at the origins of Christian obsessions with sex, guilt and sexual identity and will make a particular examination of their impact on Ireland.

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HIS 30060 Madrid-Vienna Axis

Dr Declan Downey

It is not without significance that after 1945 the founding fathers of the movement for European Union looked to the supra-national federative structures and institutions of the Habsburg dominated Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and the Spanish Monarchy for inspiration as a role model or precursor. This module will examine the constitutional, political and cultural natures of the empire and of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburg realms and the development of close strategic links between Madrid and Vienna in the dynastic designs for mastery of Europe. Within this context, the module will analyse the emergence of the `balance of power ` in International Relations after 1648; the rise of `imperial patriotism¿; the politics of the architectural symbolism of Vienna and Madrid as imperial capitals; the cultural distinctiveness of the Habsburg courts and their respective artistic, musical and intellectual legacies

HIS 30580 Women & Family

Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne

This course will explore the role of women and the family in Ireland from the 1870s to the 1970s with a particular focus on how gender roles and family power evolved during this period. Women and the family were hugely affected by emigration, economic stringency, changing moral and welfare ideologies and developing notions of individualism and modernity. This course seeks to elucidate these main issues and examine how they impaced on women, gender conditioning and the position of the family. What were the main changes in women's lives during the twentieth century? How did these changes impact on the family and the wider society? Was men's role equally important in the shaping of the family and the framing of family policy? Was there an effective women's movement in Ireland? Was Irish feminism different to its British counterpart?

HIS 30230 US Civil War Dr David Doyle

Many Americans see the Civil War (1861-65) as the central event of their history. Unlike the French, British, and Mexicans before them, the USA could not peacably restrict or eliminate slavery, partly because of their very democracy and the Federal system of dispersed power. The ensuing war re-defined American nationality, streamlined federalism and the party system, modernised war-making, set the country on the path to a real civil service and to a professional peacetime army and navy, and cleared the way to great power status. It cost around 660,000 lives and freed four million slaves and their descendants. The purposes of the course are to study the failure of peace between 1850-61, and to analyse the patterns of the war and the causes of Union victory, 1861-65. One half of the course is given to each part.

HIS 30370 Culture & Revolution (Lenin & Stalin) Dr Judith Devlin

This course examines the Russian revolution not merely as a political revolution but as a longer-term social and cultural revolution. The revolutionaries hoped to transform human nature and relations, culture and thought. We will explore how they attempted to realise their goals and the impact of their ideas on Soviet Russia. Topics will include Soviet propaganda and mythologies of power, cinema and visual culture, the position of women and the intelligentsia, Stalinism and the Stalin revolution, the Terror and the Gulag, World War II and its impact.

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HIS 30200 Crime and Punishment Dr Sandy Wilkinson

This course will explore crime, punishment and violence in Europe from 1500-1800. Themes to be covered will include profiling violent crime, martyrdom, iconoclasm, popular protest, massacre, witchcraft and violence perpetrated by and against women. There will be one lecture every week intended to offer an introduction to the themes of the course. There will also be one small group seminar every week where we will explore (as a class) a rich variety of primary sources.

HIS 30070 French Revolution Professor Hugh Gough

The French revolution is one of the defining events in the history of modern Europe. This course will look at the political, social & cultural aspects reasons for its outbreak, the slide towards terror in 1793, the reversion to a moderate republic and the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. It will use selected and translated documentary material

HIS 30240 C19 Paris Dr David Kerr

Focusing on developments in Paris, this module examines the relationships between the political and cultural histories of France between 1815 and the 1880s. Particular attention is devoted to the changing nature of the revolutionary tradition and the manner in which it was preserved and articulated in French political culture (theatre, painting, caricature, the novel). The urban reforms of the Second Empire and the nature of Parisian modernity are also examined in detail. Tutorial discussion will focus on: the myth of revolution after 1830; the nature and political impact of Romanticism in France; architecture and urban planning in Haussmann's Paris; Baudelaire and Impressionism.

SEMESTER 2

Core modules:

HIS 30150 The Irish Experience Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Dr Susannah Riordan

This module explores the forces which shaped Irish society in the nineteenth and twentieth century from the perspective of ordinary lives and everyday experiences, experiences of sickness and health, love and marriage, birth and death, getting and spending. The topics examined will include population increase and decline – including the impact of emigration and disease - the revolution in communications, changes in religious and medical practices, and debates on child and maternal welfare. The Irish case will be situated within broader European and British trends. HIS 30520 Asia and Australia Dr Declan Downey & Professor Stuart Ward

Within the past two hundred years, Australia, China and Japan have emerged as major political and economic players, not only on the East & Southeast Asian Pacific Rim, but also on the world stage. This module will examine their respective internal historical socio-political, economic, cultural and military developments within the broader context of the history of international relations and the balance of power in the Pacific Rim. Also, it will evaluate the evolution of mutual relationships among these powers.

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HIS 30040 Scripts, Scribes, Scholars

Mr Charles Doherty

This course will examine the history of writing. We will look at the origin and development of the alphabet, the types of book used in the ancient world, and in particular the origin and nature of the codex or rectangular book that we are familiar with today. We will look at the evolution of libraries. All of this will be by way of background to the introduction of literacy into early Ireland. We will examine the nature of early Irish handwriting, the types of book produced, the nature of scriptoria, or writing houses, and finally we will explore the world of the Book of Kells.

HIS 30600 Italian City-States

Dr Edward Coleman

This module covers the political, social and cultural history of northern Italy between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. In this period a distinctive and vibrant urban civilasation developed in Lombardy and Tuscany. Particular attention will be given to the study of major cities such as Florence and Siena.The module will deal with topics such as communal government, civic religion, family structure, factional conflict and vendetta, education, trade and commerce, public and private space, crime and punishment, class consciousness, material culture and demographic trends. Original sources in translation will be used extensively as study aids. To gain a flavour of the kind of source material produced in the period see Trevor Dean, ed., 'The towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages', Manchester, 2000 HIS 30280 Religion & Society

Dr Susannah Riordan

This module explores the nature of Irish Catholicism in the twentieth century and its influence on the political, social and cultural development of the independent state. It examines church-state relations and the religious context of policy making in terms of public morality, justice, foreign policy, education, health and social welfare. It pays particular attention to analysing the interaction between religious ideology and party and interest group politics. Among the questions raised will be was independent Ireland a 'Catholic state'? Why was the control of sexuality prioritised by both church and state? How is Ireland positioned in the international history of twentieth-century Catholicism? HIS 30120 Irish Revolution

Professor Michael Laffan

The module examines the interaction of different groups (in particular unionists, moderate and radical nationalists, and the British), the causes and impact of events (such as the Home Rule Crisis, the Easter Rising, and the Treaty), and patterns of continuity and discontinuity in the period spanning the First World War. Students will become familiar with the complexity of the issues involved and with the range of interpretations. HIS 30510 America in the 21st Century

Professor William Kennedy (Clinton Institute)

This course explores the political, cultural and social issues that shape the contemporary United States. Key themes include: the end of the Cold War and the reshaping of domestic politics and foreign policy; 9/11 and responses to terrorism; the ‘culture wars’; the impact of religious fundamentalism on American culture and politics; and the effects of new media

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technologies on cultural production. While focusing on the twenty-first century, early readings and lectures deal also with political events in the late twentieth century. Topics central to our analysis in the first part of the course include the legacies of the American war in Vietnam, the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George Bush I and Bill Clinton, and American domestic and international policies in the 1980s and 1990s. HIS 30360 Wentworth to Cromwell

Dr Tadhg O’hAnnrachain

This course examines two crucial decades in Irish history from 1632-1653. Thomas Wentworth's appointment as governor of Ireland instituted a period of revolutionary change. The course investigates in detail the political, religious and economic forces which contributed to the outbreak of a sectarian civil war in Ireland in 1641, and the political developments which stemmed from the effective collapse of the English state in most of the island. It concentrates in particular on the confederate association, the de facto catholic state that controlled much of Ireland between 1642 and 1649. The course concludes with an examination of the Cromwellian conquest. There will be a substantial documentary component to the course and it is expected that students will attend all the mandatory classes. HIS 30570 Nominalism to Mechanism

Dr Eamon O’Flaherty

This module offers a survey of the principal movements in European intellectual history from the end of the middle ages to the eve of the Enlightenment. Based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, the module will consider philosophical and scientific change, the emergence of scepticism and rationalism and the mechanistic philosophies of the New Science. Attention will also be paid to developments in political thought and to the social and cultural context of intellectual change. HIS 30640 Gender, Politics, and Identity in the Middle Ages

Dr Melissa Pollock

For centuries the battle of the sexes, the differences between men and women, has dominated interpretations about gender and society. The role of women in the Middle Ages has often been interpreted with misogynistic overtones and little appreciation of the esteem rendered to women by their male contemporaries. With fear and respect, men accepted their dependency on women for the physical propagation and psychological preservation of their rights in society. This course will investigate the impact of women on politics and culture by examining a range of sources from poetry and romance writing to elegies for the dead and dynastic panegyric.

HIS 30650 Modern Ireland: Radical Ireland Dr Niamh Puirséil

This course looks at the different, often competing, strands of radicalism in twentieth century Ireland, including the left, right, religious, secular, republican, intellectual, feminist movements. Examining who were the radicals, what were their ideas and methods, where their support came from, who were their opponents and how successful they were in their aims, students will study the movements and individuals who set themselves against Ireland's conservative revolution in thought, word and deed.

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SINGLE SUBJECT HONOURS MODULES

Core modules:

LEVEL 1

SEMESTER 1

Additional Module:

HIS 10090 Themed Seminar: Approaches to History Dr David Kerr

LEVEL 2

Additional Modules:

SEMESTER 1

HIS 20520 Themed Seminar: Archives Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne

This module aims at providing students with a core understanding of the main archival holdings in Ireland, from UCD’s own archives to the National Archives and other more specialised archives. The intention is to introduce students to the main collections in these archives, while also giving them a general understanding of how archives work and how they can be best utilised. This course seeks to provide students with confidence in accessing the main archives in their field of interest and equipping them with the knowledge required to make the most of these collections. Students will also be informed of the latest archival developments in relation to the digitisation of certain archival holdings and on-line archival sources. The course will also deal with issues of archival etiquette and examine the best ways of collecting archival information from digital photography to data storage. HIS 30540 Themed Seminar: Medicine, Culture and Society

Dr Catherine Cox

This course explores a series of ongoing debates within the social history of medicine. It examines sickness, disease and the provison of care in Britain and Ireland in a broad social, economic, political and cultural context. It focuses on the plurality of medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the 'medical marketplace', and the rise of medical institutions. It will look at the evolving relationships between doctors and patients, and the place of poverty, class, gender and ethnicity in these relationships. The course will also cover the impact of urban growth on changing patterns of disease and medical practice. Other themes include the rise of the medical profession in the nineteenth century, the impact of medical science on society, the relationship between war and medicine, and the role of state medicine.

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SEMESTER 2

HIS 20250 Marathon Dr Eamon O’Flaherty This is a directed reading module designed to introduce students to the reading and evaluation of primary source material. It seeks to train students to avoid anachronistic interpretation and to place the sources in their proper historical context. The topic for each year will be determined by the head of school. HIS 20530 Student Research Seminar: Dr Edward Coleman

This module is designed to provide Single Honours History students with the opportunity of studying a selection of topics in medieval and modern history in depth. The topics will be chosen by students in consultation with the module coordinator and will derive from history modules taken in the first semester. Each student will give a class presentation on a given topic.

LEVEL 3

SEMESTER 1

Additional Modules:

HIS 20520 Themed Seminar: Archives Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne

See above HIS 30540 Themed Seminar: Medicine, Culture and Society

Dr Catherine Cox

See above

HIS 30550 Research Skills Dr David Kerr

The culmination of the Single Honours History BA is the writing of a major piece of historical research. This module takes students through the process of choosing a topic, planning a research strategy, learning how to negotiate archives and other primary sources, and beginning the work of preparing the dissertation. There will be seminars and meetings with the assigned dissertation supervisors.

SEMESTER 2 HIS 30260 Dissertation 1 Professor Edward James

The culmination of an historian's craft is the writing of a major piece of historical research. This module, in two stages, takes History Mode 1 students through the exercise. The first part of the module consists of taking students through the process of choosing a topic, planning a research strategy, learning how to negotiate archives and other primary sources, and beginning the work of preparing the dissertation. There will be seminars and meetings with the assigned dissertation supervisors. HIS 30270 Dissertation 2 Professor Edward James

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After the initial preparatory stage, History Mode 1 students will complete the writing up of their 10000-word dissertation. There will be regular meetings with supervisors, who will expect to comment on a draft, which will be submitted during the month of February at the latest. The dissertation itself is submitted, in two copies, on the first day after the Spring break.

LEVEL 1 MODULES Part-Time Degree

SEMESTER 1 HIS 1001E The Renaissance Dr David Kerr

Placing the intellectual and cultural developments of the Renaissance in their historical context, the module will focus on Italy and Flanders. Topics will include: the world of the Renaissance city; courts and patronage; the rediscovery of antiquity; the Renaissance artist at work; war and society; humanism and religious thought; architecture and urbanism; biography, portraiture and the discovery of the individual. There will be case studies of the Renaissance in Florence and Venice. Suggested preliminary reading:

J.R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, 1994 Evelyn Welch, Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500, 1996 Peter Burke, The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy, 1987 HIS 1002E Twentieth Century Britain Dr Catherine Hynes

This course examines the history of Britain throughout the twentieth century - a period of almost unprecedented political, social and economic change. In 1900, Britannia ruled the waves - an economic and military superpower, presiding over the largest territorial empire the world had ever seen. By the end of the century, she had become a peripheral member of the European Union. This module offers a broad survey of the major themes and events in the political development of modern Britain, including two World Wars, a Cold War and a social/cultural revolution. It presents a chronological analysis of the history, key personnel and achievements of Britain’s successive administrations. Required text:

William D. Rubinstein, Twentieth-Century Britain, A Political History (Basingstoke, 2003). Recommended reading includes:

David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled, British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century (Harlow, 2000) Peter Hennessy, Whitehall (London, 1989) David Sanders, Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (New York, 1995). SEMESTER 2

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HIS 1003E European Modernities Dr Niamh Cullen

The course will examine the social and cultural history of modern Europe, focusing on the ways in which European civilization has been transformed in the twentieth century by phenomena such as the rise of the city, democracy and mass culture, the changing roles of women and Modernism in the arts. HIS 1004E Modern Ireland - The making of modern Ireland, 1800-1923 Dr Ciara Meehan

This module seeks to investigate and explain the changing nature of the relationship between Britain and Ireland from the Act of Union to the birth of the Irish Free State. It will address the major political, social, economic and constitutional developments. The forces that were binding Ireland and Britain, and also those that were dividing the two countries will be examined and evaluated. The main introductory text for this module is Alvin Jackson’s Ireland 1798-1998.

LEVEL 3 MODULES Part-Time Degree

SEMESTER 1 HIS 3001E Culture and Society in Modern Italy: From Mussolini to Mass Protest Dr Niamh Cullen

In the early decades of the twentieth century, Italy was still a predominantly rural society where the majority of its inhabitants did not even speak Italian; by the 1960s, mass culture had changed the country beyond recognition. This course will examine the way in which social and political forces have both transformed and themselves been shaped by cultural production and consumption in twentieth century Italy, from the relationship between avant-garde intellectuals, Futurism and Fascism after 1918 to the beginnings of mass culture in the 1930s and its explosion in the post war decades. Topics will include Fascism and popular culture in the 1930s; the post war cult of the Resistance; Catholicism, Communism and mass culture after 1945; television in the 1950s and the culture of protest in the late 1960s. HIS 3002E Australia’s Empire Professor Stuart Ward

This course seeks to unravel the enigma of imperialism in Australian history. As the title implies, it raises the fundamental question of empire and historical agency. For over a generation, Australians have become accustomed to thinking of the ‘British’ Empire as something external to Australian historical experience – a passing phase which, although crucial to Australia’s origins, was primarily driven by impulses and agencies originating overseas. This course, however, invites students to consider how ‘Australia’s Empire’ was as much the project of the colony as of the metropole, as much the product of the Australian imagination as of the British Colonial Office. Four key issues will be addressed. Most fundamentally, there is the enduring theme of European culture, material and ideas transmitted to a colonial setting and thereby transformed. The Australian colonies were never mere ‘repetitions of England’ as Anthony Trollope would have it (‘English life all over again…’), but

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places with their own internal dynamic and agency. Secondly, ‘Australia’s Empire’ reflects the many ways in which ‘Empire’ meant different things to Australians in comparison with their British (and for that matter, other settler-colonial) counterparts. While settlers inevitably brought metropolitan attitudes and orientations with them, they would nonetheless adopt a conception of Empire and Britishness that was subtly attuned to their colonial coordinates. Thirdly, the course foregrounds the role of Australians as Empire-builders themselves, not only in asserting their sovereignty over the Australian continent and its Indigenous peoples, but also in promoting an imperial programme of their own in the Pacific. Had it been left to the British Colonial Office alone, the entire Pacific basin and even large portions of Australia itself, may never have fallen under the Empire’s sway. And finally, the course will explore the present day legacies of Empire in Australia – a legacy that is as much Australia’s as Britain’s, if not more so. Exploring the after effects of Empire is not about shifting the focus ‘back to Britain’, but about making sense of Australia’s own imperial inheritance. Where relevant, these issues will also be addressed in a comparative settler-colonial context, with reference to New Zealand and Canada in particular. Inevitably, the course will also raise questions of immediate relevance to understanding the complexities of the imperial past in Ireland. Reading

1. Set Text: Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds), Australia’s Empire (Oxford University Press, 2008). 2. Kate Grenville, The Secret River (2005) 3. Selection of bound readings available for distribution at start of term Key reference works

The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol V: Historiography (Oxford University Press, 1999). The Oxford Companion to Australian History, (Oxford University Press, 1998). Neville Meaney, Australia and the World: A Documentary History from the 1870s to the 1970s (Melbourne, 1985). (See www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/austud HIS 3003E Reading History I Dr Ciara Meehan

Roger Casement’s diaries, commemorations of 1916 and the Somme, the collapse of the mother and child scheme, the Australian history wars and holocaust denial are among the ten controversies assessed in this module. Each has provoked intense feeling and debate. They will be placed in their historical context and will be examined from different perspectives. The effect of the passage of time on the debate will also be analysed. Each topic will be explored through the reading of primary source documents and secondary literature. SEMESTER 2 HIS 3004E Medieval History Dr Melissa Pollock

HIS 3005E Anglo-American Relations Dr Catherine Hynes

This module examines the historical development of the ‘special’ relationship between Britain and America, from its creation against the backdrop of the Second World War in Europe, through to the Cold War era of shared interests and negotiated compromises. Particular attention will be paid to the changing nature of the relationship at times of discord, such as the Suez débâcle of 1956, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the decision to withdraw British forces from east of Suez. Throughout, reference will be made to Anglo-American relations in the economic,

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defence, political and intelligence arenas. Consideration will also be given to the significance of personalities in consolidating and weakening the alliance. Recommended reading includes:

C.J. Bartlett, The Special Relationship: A Political History of Anglo-American Relations since 1945 (1992) David Dimbleby and David Reynolds An Ocean Apart: The Relationship between Britain and

America in the 20th Century (1989) David Reynolds Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Powers in the 20th Century (2000) WR Louis & Hedley Bull, The Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations since 1945 (1984) HIS 3006E Reading History II

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FROM UCD ARCHIVES

Dromohair co-operative creamery, Co. Leitrim 1909

Salesmen’s offices, Ardglass Co. Down 1911

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Dr. Douglas Hyde (centre) and Alice Stopford-Green (far right) talk to people in Iar-Connacht, 1913 (UCD Archives)

Cottage in Tureena Co. Galway, 1913

The Puck Fair: Killorglin co. Kerry 1912

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MS A 14 folio 5r: Geoffrey Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Éirinn

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