Postgraduate Course: Scotland and Ireland, 1800 to 1945 (PGHC11390)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (History, Classics and Archaeology) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is designed to investigate the comparisons, connections and shared themes between Scottish and Irish history in the period from the Anglo-Irish Union to the end of the Second World War/Emergency. Students will be invited to engage in critical comparisons of such themes as economic development, demographic movements, emigration and empire, the politics of nationalism and unionism, militarism and the experience of global conflict, the experience of famine, the land question, the Ulster issue, the experiences of the Irish community in Scotland and the effect of Irish independence on Scotland and the relationship with the central British state. Students will be inducted to the different historiographical
traditions in Scottish and Irish history and in their written work will be expected to engage in explicitly comparative history. The course will build on an existing body of comparative work which has been undertaken since the publication of an important collection of essays edited by Cullen and Smout in 1977. It is not intended that the course should provide a comprehensive survey of Scottish and Irish history in the nineteenth century. It is the objective that at the completion of the course students should have a good understanding of three areas: Comparative Scottish and Irish Historiography; the value of comparing Scotland's historical experience to that of other nations; the place of Scotland and Ireland in a wider context. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12,
Online Activities 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of some of the most important issues and themes connected to the pursuit of the comparative history of Scotland and Ireland in this period;
- demonstrate an ability to reflect in a critical manner on the practice of comparative history more generally;
- independently identify and pursue research topics in this period of international history;
- exhibit an understanding for different conceptual approaches for the study of history;
- analyse and contextualise primary source material;
- arrive at independent, well-argued, well-documented and properly referenced conclusions in their coursework essay;
- demonstrate their written skills, their analytical and theoretical skills in coursework;
- demonstrate their ability to reflect on the reading & research they have undertaken and provide feedback for their peers. |
Assessment Information
One 1,000 word primary source analysis (20%) and one 3,000 word essay (80%).
Both pieces of work will be submitted via Learn and marked using TurnitIn. Online versions of the postgraduate essay feedback form will be employed on the course. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Seminar Topics
1. Historiographical debates
2. Scotland, Ireland and the United Kingdom
3. Demography and Economic Contrasts
4. Famines
5. The Irish Community in Scotland
6. Anti-Irish Feeling in Scotland
7. Politics and the Land Issue in Scotland and Ireland
8. Nationalism and Home Rule
9. The Great War
10. Independence
11. Second World War/Emergency
Asynchronous forum discussions will include front-loaded screencasts or podcasts of short 10 minute lectures introducing the topics to be discussed over the course of the week's seminar. All primary source material discussed in both synchronous and asynchronous seminars will be provided electronically by the course organiser via Learn.
In addition to this there will be two half-hour virtual office slots provided per week, via Skype. |
| Transferable skills |
The study of the past gives students a unique understanding of the present that will enable them to succeed in a broad range of careers. The transferable skills gained from this course include:
- understanding of complex issues and how to draw valid conclusions from the past
- ability to analyse the origins and development of current historiographical debates
- a command of bibliographical and library- and/or IT-based online and offline research skills
- a range of skills in reading and textual analysis
- ability to question and problematize evidence; considering the relationship between evidence and interpretation
- understanding ethical dimensions of research and their relevance for human relationships today
- ability to marshal arguments lucidly, coherently and concisely, both orally and in writing
- ability to deliver a paper or a presentation in front of peer audiences
- ability to design and execute pieces of written work and to present them suitably, as evidenced by the final assessment essay of 3,000 words |
| Reading list |
The following two works will be provided to the students, paid for from their fees:
T.M. Devine, The Scottish Nation (2007)
R.F. Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600 ¿ 1972 (1989)
Numerous ebooks will be available to students through the databases 'Cambridge Histories Online', 'Cambridge Books Online' & 'Oxford Scholarship Online'.
L.M.Cullen & T.C.Smout (eds), Comparative Aspects of Scottish and Irish Economic and Social History, 1600-1900 (Edinburgh, 1977)
T.M.Devine & D.Dickson (eds), Ireland and Scotland, 1600-1850: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development (Edinburgh, 1983)
R.Mitchison & P. Roebuck (eds), Economy and Society in Scotland and Ireland, 1500-1939 (Edinburgh, 1988)
S.J.Connolly, R.A.Houston & R.J.Morris (eds) Conflict, Identity and Development: Ireland and Scotland, 1600-1939 (Preston, 1995)
R.J. Morris & L. Kennedy (eds), Ireland and Scotland: Order and Disorder, 1600-2000 (Edinburgh, 2005)
D.G. Boyce & A. O'Day, The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy (London,1996)
C. Brady (ed.), Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism (Dublin 1994)
'Writing Scotland's History', Scottish Historical Review, 76 (1997)
M.Anderson & D.Morse, 'High Fertility, High Emigration, Low Nuptiality: Adjustment Processes in Scotland's Demographic Experience, 1861-1914' (Parts I & II), Population Studies, 47 (1993)
T.M.Devine, The Great Highland Famine (Edinburgh, 1988)
Enda Delaney, The Curse of Reason: The Great Irish Famine (Dublin 2012)
S.J.Brown, '"Outside the Covenant": The Scottish Presbyterian Churches and Irish Immigration, 1922-1938', Innes Review, 42 (1991)
E.W. McFarland, 'A reality and yet impalpable: the Fenian panic in mid-Victorian Scotland', SHR, 77 (1998)
E.A. Cameron, 'Communication or separation? Reactions to Irish land agitation and legislation in the Highlands of Scotland', English Historical Review, 120 (2005)
J.Loughlin, 'Creating a 'social and geographical fact': regional identity and the Ulster question, 1880 to the 1920s', Past and Present, no 195 (May 2007)
E.W. McFarland, 'How the Irish Paid their debt: Irish Catholics in Scotland and voluntary enlistment, August, 1914 ¿ July 1915', SHR, 82 (2003)
Alvin Jackson, Two Unions: Scotland, Ireland and the Survival of the United Kingdom (Oxford, 2012)
Jeremy Crang, Edward Spiers, Matthew Strickland (eds), A Military History of Scotland (Edinburgh, 2012)
Thomas Bartlett, Keith Jeffery (eds), A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge, 1996)
C. O'Grada, Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939 (Oxford, 1994).
T.M.Devine, C.H.Lee, G. C.Peden (eds), The Transformation of Scotland: the economy since 1700 (Edinburgh, 2005)
Primary source material will be available via House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, British Library Newspaper database and other newspaper online archives, SCRAN, Am Baile. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Scotland Ireland |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Ewen Cameron
Tel: (0131 6)50 4031
Email: E.Cameron@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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