Class participation, 20%; Book review (2-3 pages) and class presentation, 30%; Final paper, (12-15 pages), 50%.  Book(s) review will be an analysis of a work or works–fiction, biography, or historical–concerning a topic relating the course, which is then presented to the class. The final paper should explore in depth this topic or another, preferably covered (or at least touched upon) in class, although it may approach it through the use of readings not used in class.

The Course of Irish History, T.W. Moody/F.X. Martin
Emigrants and Exiles, Kerby Miller
Erin’s Daughters, Hasia Diner
Ireland in Mind, Alice Powers
Textures of Irish America, Lawrence McCaffrey
The New Irish Americans, Ray O’Hanlon
 Hope Against History, Jack Holland

January 29: Introduction and two questions: “How does a nation of five million have 200 million relatives around the world, and why should it matter to us?”

February 5: Snow day

February 12: Ireland Until the American Revolution, Read Moody

February 19: The Protestant Ascendancy, Early Immigration to America and The Great Hunger,
  Finish Moody, Begin Miller

The Famine in Ireland - Peasants at the Gate of a Workhouse

February 26: Ireland Comes to America,  continue Miller

March 5: The Civil War, the Fenians and an Irish Mayor in Boston!—Ireland begins to change America,  Finish Miller, and begin Diner  Presentations Begin.

March 12-14: Ireland and America Conference, attendance is expected as much as possible

 March 19: How America Begins to change the Irish; finish Diner

 March 26: The 20th Century Dawns: Home Rule, World War I and the Easter Rebellion; The Irish run the Machines and send the Money; Begin McCaffrey

April 2: Green Beer and Up the Irish; Finish McCaffrey

April 9: The Troubles, Part 1—The War Begins Anew; Begin Holland

April 16: The Troubles, Part 2—The American Connection; Finish Holland

April 23: The Irish in Literature,  Read Powers

April 30: The New Irish in America, O’Hanlon

May 7: The Future of Ireland and America, finish O’Hanlon;  Conclusion, Final Paper Due.

The Great Famine, Arthur Gribben
The Boston Irish, Thomas O’Connor
The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, Sara Orne Jewett
How the Irish Became White, Noel Ignatiev
 Angela’s Ashes/Tis, Frank McCourt
 A Monk Swimming/Singing My Him Song, Malachy McCourt
 Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America, Joseph O’Connor
 Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution, Kevin Griffith
 The Troubles, Tim Pat Coogan
 The Irish War, Tony Geraghty
 The Irish Brigade, David Conyngham
 Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, Rosemary Mahoney
 Are you Somebody?, Nuala O’Faolain
 The American Connection, Jack Holland
 God and the Gun, Martin Dillon
 The  Brendan Voyage, Tim Severin
 The Great Calamity, Thomas Kineally
 Anam Cara, John O’Donohue
 Beyond the Ballot Box, Dennis P. Ryan
 The New York Irish, Ronald Bayor and Timothy Meagher, eds.
 The Irish in America
 Out of Ireland
 The Ulster Question Since 1945, James Loughlin
 Ireland: The Politics of Independence, Mike Cronin and John Regan
 Irish America, Reginald Bryon
 Inventing and Resisting Britain, Murray Pittock
 Writing in the Irish Republic, Ray Ryan