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HIST 417: British & Irish Nationalisms

MWF 11.35 – 12.25 Prof. Brian Lewis Office: Leacock 613 Phone: 514-398-4400 ext. 00684 E-mail: [email protected] Office hours: W 1.30–2.30, F 2.30-3.30.

This course examines key aspects of Irish, Scottish and Welsh history within the British context from the of 1688 to the present. Its main focus is the question of nationalism and national identity, aiming to provide a detailed historical background to the current situation in each of the regions.

Course requirements: —class participation, including an in-class presentation: 10% —midterm: 10% —term paper, 10 pages, due in class on Monday, November 26: 40% —final exam: 40%

Readings: These consist of four books (marked with an asterisk (*)) and a coursepack (**). The books are available for purchase at The Word and the coursepack at the McGill Bookstore, and they are on 3-hour reserve at Redpath Library.

In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded.

McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ for more information).

In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the University’s control, the content and/or evaluation scheme in this course is subject to change.

Background Reading

General Vernon Bogdanor, in the (Oxford U. P., 1999). Alvin Jackson, The Two Unions: , , and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 (Oxford U. P., 2011). Hugh Kearney, The : A History of Four Nations (Cambridge U.P., Canto ed., 1995). Frank Welsh, The Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom (Harper Collins, 2002).

1 Ireland Paul Bew, Ireland: the Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 (Oxford U.P., 2007). D. George Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland (London: Routledge, 3rd ed., 1995). Richard English, Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (Macmillan, 2006). R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London, 1988). Theodore Hoppen, Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity (London: Longman, 1998). Alvin Jackson, : An Irish History 1800-2000 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003). Alvin Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, Explaining (Oxford and Cambridge, .: Blackwell, 1995). Marc Mulholland, Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford U.P., 2002). Henry Patterson, Ireland Since 1939 (Oxford U.P., 2002). Charles Townshend, Ireland in the 20th Century (London: Arnold, 1999).

Scotland T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation (New York: Viking, 1999). T. M. Devine and R. J. Finlay (eds.), Scotland in the 20th Century ( U. P., 1996). R. A. Houston and W. W. J. Knox, New Penguin History of Scotland (2001). Michael Lynch, Scotland: A New History (London: Pimlico, 1992). , A History of Scotland (London and New York: 3rd ed., Routledge, 2002). (ed.), Scotland: A History (Oxford U. P., 2005).

Wales John Davies, A History of (London: Penguin, revised ed., 2007). Philip Jenkins, A History of Modern Wales, 1536-1990 (London: Longman, 1992). Gareth Elwyn Jones, Modern Wales: A Concise History (Cambridge U. P., 2nd ed., 1994). Kenneth O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 (Oxford U. P., 1981).

Schedule of Lectures and Required Readings

Sept. 5 Introduction and Overview Sept. 7 The Glorious Revolution

Sept. 10 Scotland: The Union and Sept. 12 Eighteenth-Century Wales and Scotland

Conference readings, Sept. 14: ** Linda Colley, “ and Otherness: An Argument,” Journal of British Studies, 31, 4 (Oct. 1992), 309-29. ** Theodore Koditschek, “The Making of British Nationality,” Victorian Studies (Spring 2002), 389-98. ** David Marquand, “How United is the United Kingdom?” in Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer (eds.), Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 277-91.

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Sept. 17 The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland Sept. 19 Ireland: Grattan’s Parliament to Union

Conference readings, Sept. 21: ** T.C. Smout, “The Road to Union,” in Geoffrey Holmes (ed.), Britain After the Glorious Revolution 1689-1714 (London: Macmillan, 1969), pp. 176-96. ** T.M. Devine, “The Union of 1707 and Scottish Development,” Scottish Economic and Social History, 5 (1985), 23-40. ** Christopher A. Whatley, “Economic Causes and Consequences of the Union of 1707: A Survey,” Scottish Historical Review, LXVIII, 2 (186) (Oct. 1989), 150-81. ** Bob Harris, “The Anglo-Scottish Union, 1707 in 2007: Defending the Revolution, Defeating the Jacobites,” Journal of British Studies, 49 (Jan. 2010), 28-46.

Sept. 24 Ireland: Union to Famine Sept. 26 Ireland: Famine to Land War

Conference readings, Sept. 28: ** S.J. Connolly, “Varieties of Britishness: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian State,” in Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer (eds.), Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 193-207. ** Daniel Szechi and David Hayton, “John Bull’s Other Kingdoms: The English Government of Scotland and Ireland,” in Clyve Jones (ed.), Britain in the First Age of Party (London and Ronceverte: Hambledon Press, 1987), pp. 241-80. * D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds.), The Making of Modern Irish History (London: Routledge, 1996), chs. 1 (“Introduction”) & 2 (S.J. Connolly, “Eighteenth-Century Ireland”). ** Jim Smyth, “Introduction: the 1798 Rebellion in its Eighteenth-Century Contexts,” in Jim Smyth (ed.), Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s (Cambridge U. P., 2000), pp. 1-20.

Oct. 1 Ireland: The Struggle for Home Rule Oct. 3 The Road to the , 1914-23

Conference readings, Oct. 5: * Boyce and O’Day, chs. 3 (Liam Kennedy and David S. Johnson, “The Union of Ireland and Britain, 1801-1921”), 4 (Mary Daly, “Revisionism and Irish History: The ”), 8 (O’Day, “Home Rule and the Historians”), 9 (Boyce, “1916, Interpreting the Rising”) & 10 (O’Day, “Revising the Diaspora”).

Oct. 8 No classes: Thanksgiving Oct. 10 Nationalism, and Wales

Conference readings, Oct. 12:

3 ** Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period,” in and Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge U.P., Canto ed., 1992), pp. 43-100. * Richard Llewellyn, How Green was My Valley (Penguin).

Oct. 15 Nineteenth-century Wales: Industry, Religion, Politics, Nation Oct. 17 MIDTERM

Conference readings, Oct. 19: ** Tim Williams, “The Anglicisation of South Wales,” in Raphael Samuel (ed.), Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity, vol. II (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 193-203. ** Bud Khleif, “Ethnic Awakening in the First World: The Case of Wales,” in Glyn Williams (ed.), Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978), pp. 102-19. ** Gwyn Williams, “When was Wales?” in The Welsh in their History (London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1982), pp. 189-201. ** R. Merfyn Jones, “Beyond Identity? The Reconstruction of the Welsh,” Journal of British Studies, 31, 4 (Oct. 1992), 330-57. ** Chris Williams, “Problematizing Wales: An Exploration in Historiography and Postcoloniality,” in Jane Aaron and Chris Williams (eds.), Postcolonial Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), pp. 3-22.

Oct. 22 Welsh Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism Oct. 24 The Politics of Devolution in Wales since the 1960s

Conference readings, Oct. 26: ** David McCrone, “Representing Scotland: Culture and Nationalism,” in McCrone, Stephen Kendrick and Pat Straw (eds.), The Making of Scotland: Nation, Culture and Social Change (Edinburgh U.P., 1989), pp. 161-74. ** Charles Withers, “The Historical Creation of the ,” in Ian Donnachie and Christopher Whatley (eds.), The Manufacture of Scottish History (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992), pp. 143-56. ** T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation. A History 1700-2000 (New York: Viking, 1999), ch. 11 (“Highlandism and Scottish Identity”), pp. 231-45, 639. ** David McCrone, Understanding Scotland. The Sociology of a Nation (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2001), ch. 7 (“Roots and Routes: Seeking Scottish Identity”), pp. 149-74.

Oct. 29 Early Industrial Scotland Oct. 31 Victorian Scotland

Conference readings, Nov. 2: ** James Mitchell, “Scotland in the Union, 1945-95: The Changing Nature of the Union

4 State,” in T. M. Devine and R. J. Finlay (eds.), Scotland in the 20th Century (Edinburgh U.P., 1996), pp. 85-101. ** Tom Nairn, “Scotland and Europe,” in Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny (eds.), Becoming National: A Reader (New York and Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1996), pp. 78-104. ** Colin Kidd, Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000 (Cambridge U.P., 2008), ch. 1 (“Introduction: The Problems of Unionism and Banal Unionism), pp. 1-38. ** Murray G. H. Pittock, Scottish Nationality (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), ch. 5 (“A Nation of Two Halves”), pp. 130-47, 167-9.

Nov. 5 Unionism and Nationalism in Scotland, 1914-1950s Nov. 7 The Politics of Devolution in Scotland since the 1960s

Nov. 9 No conference. Weekly readings: * Boyce and O’Day, ch. 11 (Boyce, “Revisionism and the Northern Ireland Troubles”). * Jonathan Tonge, Northern Ireland (Cambridge: Polity, 2006), Introduction and chs. 1-5.

Nov. 12 Partitioned Ireland Nov. 14 The Troubles (I)

Conference readings, Nov. 16: * Tonge, Northern Ireland, chs. 6-11 and Conclusion. ** Alan Parkinson, “Bigots in Bowler Hats? The Presentation and Reception of the Loyalist Case in ,” pp. 271-93, and Paul Bew, “The Union. A Concept in Terminal Decay?” pp. 316-24, in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, eds., Defenders of the Union. A Survey of British and Irish Unionism Since 1801 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001).

Nov. 19 Documentary: The Road to Bloody Sunday Nov. 21 The Troubles (II)

Conference readings, Nov. 23: * Eamon Collins, Killing Rage (London: Granta, 1997).

Nov. 26 Documentary: Blood and Belonging Term paper due in class Nov. 28 The Troubles (III): The Road to Peace

Conference readings, Nov. 30: ** Krishan Kumar, The Making of English National Identity, ch. 8 (“The English and the British Today”), pp. 199-262.

Dec. 3 Conclusion

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