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HIST08014 Irish Historiography

Full Title Irish Historiography

Status Uploaded to Banner Start Term 2018

NFQ Level 08 ECTS Credits 05

Module Code HIST08014 Duration 13 weeks - (13 Weeks)

Grading Mode Numeric Department Heritage & Tourism

Module Author Mark McCarthy

Module Description

The aim of module is to give students an understanding and appreciation of some of the major trends and developments in Irish historiography from the late nineteenth century until the present.

Learning Outcomes  On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to:

1. (a) Understand what is meant by historiography and acquire knowledge of the key intellectual trends and developments that have characterised the changing nature and practice of Irish historical scholarship from the late nineteenth century until the present. (b) Think critically and sceptically, and have the confidence to formulate open-minded opinions about prevailing orthodoxies and accepted views on the past (by considering history as ‘critical investigation’ rather than as ‘unchallengeable tablets of stone’). (c) Gain an insight into how a biobibliographical perspective can lead to a better appreciation of the academic works and public lives of some of Ireland’s most influential historians. (d) Acquire an understanding of some of the heated historiographical debates that have arisen from the production, in recent times, of Irish films and documentaries depicting the history and memory of the War of Independence of 1919-1921 and/or the Civil War of 1922- 1923.

Indicative Syllabus

(1) Irish Historiography: This first section commences by outlining how the study and writing of history at a more advanced level can be enhanced by an appreciation of the significance of historiography (i.e. ‘the study of changes in the methods, interpretations, and conclusions of historians over time’). It then seeks to review the progress that has taken place in the writing and rewriting of Irish history from the late nineteenth century to the present. It assesses the ways in which published works have produced an extraordinarily evocative and colourful elucidation of Ireland’s past histories. Topics to be explored will include the following: cultural nationalism, writings by nationalist historians (e.g. George O’Brien, W. H. Lecky), new approaches of university historians (e.g. Theo Moody, Robert Dudley Edwards, D. B. Quinn), the foundation of Irish Historical Studies in 1938, the growth in Irish economic and social history since the late 1960s, revisionist writers (e.g. Conor Cruise O’Brien’s States of Ireland, Father Francis Shaw’s ‘The Canon of Irish History: A Challenge’, Roy Foster’s Modern Ireland), post revisionist history (e.g. Diarmuid Ferriter’s The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000), public history and memory, perspectives from other disciplines.

(2) Historians & the Public Sphere: A Biobibliographical Study of the Life & Work of Professor John A. Murphy: Drawing upon a variety of sources, this second section will scrutinise the life and work of the Cork historian, Professor John A. Murphy. Topics to be explored will include the following: Murphy’s interview with John Murray on RTÉ’s One to One, a biography of Murphy (the historian, politician, journalist, and singer, as depicted in his festschrift),Murphy in Voices of Cork,Murphy as historian (his published works), Murphy in public life (e.g. his speeches in the Seanad and his chapter in The British-Irish Connection), Murphy’s journalism (e.g. The Sunday Independent), Murphy’s letters to The Irish Times, Murphy on youtube.com’s The Story of Queen Victoria’s Statue at University College Cork (UCC).

(3) The Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) & Civil War (1922-1923): Historiographical Debates arising from Films & Documentaries: Although history films serve as an aid to the public’s knowledge and understanding of the past, historians can be quite pedantic in their criticisms of them. This final section examines the complexities of how two seminal events in Irish history – the War of Independence and the Civil War – have been portrayed in films and documentaries. A case study will be undertaken of Ken Loach’s The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). How have the scenes portrayed in the film managed to influence people’s views of Irish history? How have they been received by historians and film critics? To what degree has the film managed to separate fact from fiction, and has it enabled audiences to better understand the stories associated with the struggle for independence? Reference will also be made to Neil Jordan’s Page 2 of 7

Michael Collins (1996) and to the heated historiographical debates that have arisen as a result of the production, in recent times, of a series of television documentaries on the revolutionary era, namely: The Killings at Cooleacrease (2007), Cork’s Bloody Secret (2009), Bóthar na Saoirse (2011), An Tost Fada (The Long Silence) (2012), and In the Name of the Republic (2013). How have these brought historiographical debates about the past to life and how have they influenced public memories of the past?

Teaching and Learning Strategy

Exam (50%); Continuous Assessment: Book Reviews & Essay (50%).

Assessment Strategy

Lectures, reading, tutorials/seminars, active learning (including student presentations), discussion of selected readings and handouts, videos/DVDs, and iPod recordings.

Repeat Assessment Strategies

Repeat Exam.

Indicative Coursework and Continuous Assessment: 50 %

Form Title Percent Week (Indicative) Learning Outcomes

Assessment Book Reviews (Seminar Presentation) 10 % TBA 1

Assignment Essay 40 % TBA 1

End of Semester / Year Formal Exam: 50 %

Form Title Percent Week (Indicative) Learning Outcomes

Assessment Exam 50 % End of Semester 1

Full Time Delivery Mode Average Weekly Workload: 3.00 Hours

Type Description Location Hours Frequency Weekly Avg

Lecture Lecture Flat Classroom 3 Weekly 3.00

Literary Resources

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(1) Irish Historiography Abbott, M. (Ed.), History Skills: A Student’s Handbook, 2nd Edition (Routledge, London, 2009).

Arnold, J. A., History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).

Ashworth, G. J., Graham, B. and Tunbridge, J., Pluralising Pasts: Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies (Pluto Press, London, 2007).

Beck. P., Presenting History: Past and Present (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012).

Benjamin, J. R., A Student’s Guide to History, 10th Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, Boston, 2007).

Berger, S., Feldner, H. and Passmore, K. (Eds), Writing History: Theory and Practice (Hodder Arnold, London, 2003)

Bradshaw, B., ‘Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 26 (1989), pp. 329-51.

Brady, C. (Ed.), Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism, 1938-1994 (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994). Page 3 of 7

Cleary, J., ‘Amongst Empires: A Short History of Ireland and Empire Studies in International Context’, Éire Ireland, Vol. 43 (2008), pp. 11-57.

Clifford, B. and Herlihy, J., Envoi: Taking Leave of Roy Foster: Reviews of His Made Up Irish Story (Aubane Historical Society, Cork, 2006).

Collingwood, R. G., The Idea of History (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1970).

Cruise O’Brien, C., States of Ireland (Panther, London, 1974).

Cruise O’Brien, C., Neighbours: The Ewart-Biggs Memorial Lectures 1978-1979 (Faber and Faber, London, 1980).

Cruise O’Brien, C., Memoir: My Life and Themes (Poolbeg, Dublin, 1998).

Curthoys, A. and McGrath, A., How to Write History that People Want to Read (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011).

Daly, M., ‘Revisionism and Irish History: The Great Famine’, in George Boyce, D. and O’Day, A. (Eds), The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy (Routledge, London, 1996), pp. 71-89.

Davis, G., ‘The Historiography of the Irish Famine’, in O’Sullivan, P. (Ed.), The Irish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity. Volume Six. The Meaning of the Famine (Leicester University Press, London, 2000), pp. 15-39.

Donnelly, M. and Norton, C., Doing History (Routledge, London, 2011).

Ellis, S. G., ‘Writing Irish History: Revisionism, Colonialism, and the British Isles’, The Irish Review, No. 19 (1996), pp. 1-21.

Fennell, D., ‘On Telling the Irish Revolution as it Really Was’, History Ireland, Vol. 20, No. 5 (2012), pp. 10-11.

Ferriter, D., The Transformation of Modern Ireland 1900-2000 (Profile Books Ltd., London, 2004).

Ferriter, D., Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (Profile Books Ltd., London, 2012).

Foster, R. F., Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (Allen Lane, London, 1988).

Foster, R. F., The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland (Allen Lane, London, 2001), see Chapter 1 (‘The Story of Ireland’).

George Boyce, D. and O’Day, A., ‘Introduction: “Revisionism” and the “Revisionist Controversy”’, in George Boyce, D. and O’Day, A. (Eds), The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy (Routledge, London, 1996), pp. 163-87.

Graham, B. J. and Proudfoot, L. J., ‘A Perspective on the Nature of Irish Historical Geography’, in Graham, B. J. and Proudfoot, L. J. (Eds), An Historical Geography of Ireland (Academic Press, London, 1993), pp. 1-18.

Harte, L. and Whelan, Y. (Eds), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Pluto Press, London, 2007).

Howe, S., Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).

Howe, S., ‘Historiography’, in Kenny, K. (Ed.), Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004), pp. 220-50.

Howe, S., ‘Questioning the (Bad) Question: “Was Ireland a Colony?”’, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 36, No. 142 (November 2008), pp. 138-52.

Kiberd, D., Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (Vintage Books, London, 1995). Page 4 of 7

Lee, J. J., Irish Historiography 1970-79 (Cork University Press, Cork, 1981).

Lee, J. J., ‘Irish History’, in Buttimer, N., Rynne, C and Guerin, H. (Eds), The Heritage of Ireland (The Collins Press, Cork, 2000), pp. 117-36.

Leonard, A., The Junior Dean R. B. McDowell: Encounters with a Legend (The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2003).

McAuliffe, M., O’Donnell, K. and Lane, L. (Eds), Palgrave Advances in Irish History (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009).

McCarthy, M., ‘Writing Ireland’s Historical Geographies’, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 28, No. 4 (2002), pp. 533-52.

McCarthy, M., Ireland’s 1916 Rising: Explorations of History-Making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times (Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, 2012).

McDowell, R. B., McDowell on McDowell (The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2008).

Mabbett, I. W., Writing History Essays: A Student’s Guide (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2007).

Marwick, A., The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2001).

Morris, R., ‘Review Article: What is My Nation? Pathways to Post Revisionism’, Irish Economic and Social History, Vol. 39, (2012), pp. 103- 112.

Nolan, W., ‘Historical/Cultural Geography’, in Buttimer, N., Rynne, C and Guerin, H. (Eds), The Heritage of Ireland (The Collins Press, Cork, 2000), pp. 137-45.

O’Brien, G., Irish Governments and the Guardianship of Historical Records, 1922-72 (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2004).

Ó Corráin, D. (Ed.), James Hogan: Revolutionary, Historian and Political Scientist (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2001).

Rees, R., Ireland 1905-25. Volume 1: Text and Historiography (Colourpoint Books, Newtownards, 1998).

Shaw, F., ‘The Canon of Irish History: A Challenge’, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 61, No. 242 (1972), pp. 113-53.

Stout, M., ‘Historical Geography’, in Geary, L., M. and Kelleher, M. (Eds), Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research (University College Dublin Press, Dublin, 2005), pp. 77-103.

Tosh, J. and Lang, S., The Pursuit of History, 4th Edition (Pearson Education Ltd., Harlow, 2006).

Tosh, J., Why History Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008).

Tosh, J. (Ed.), Historians on History, 2nd Edition (Pearson Education Ltd., Harlow, 2009).

Townshend, C., ‘Historiography: Telling the Irish Revolution’, in Augusteijn, J. (Ed.), The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002), pp. 1-16.

Walker, B., Dancing to History’s Tune: History, Myth and Politics in Ireland (The Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 1997).

Walker, B., Past and Present: History, Identity and Politics in Ireland (The Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 2000).

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Filmography: Conor Cruise O’Brien: The Suspecting Glance (RTÉ, 2007); Making History: The Irish Historian (RTÉ Hidden History, 2007), One to One: Roy Foster (RTÉ, 2008); Seven Ages (RTÉ, 2002); The Story of Ireland (RTÉ/BBC, 2011).

(2) Historians and the Public Sphere: A Biobibliographical Study of the Life & Work of Professor John A. Murphy Dunne, T. and Geary, L. M. (Eds), History and the Public Sphere: Essays in Honour of John A. Murphy (Cork University Press, Cork, 2005), see Section 1.

Murphy, J. A., Justin MacCarthy, Lord Mountcashel: Commander of the First Irish Brigade in France O’Donnell Lecture, (Cork University Press, Cork, 1958).

Murphy, J. A., ‘A Look at the Past’, in McLoone, J. (Ed.), The British-Irish Connection (The Social Study Conference, Galway, 1986), pp. 11- 16.

Murphy, J. A., Ireland in the Twentieth Century (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1989).

Murphy, J. A., ‘Cork: Anatomy and Essence’, in O’Flanagan, P. and Buttimer, C. G. (Eds), Cork: History and Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County (Geography Publications, Dublin, 1993), pp. 1-14.

Murphy, J. A., The College: A History of Queen’s/University College Cork, 1845-1995 (Cork University Press, Cork, 1995).

Murphy, J. A., ‘“The College”: University College Cork’, in Crowley, J.S., Devoy, R.J.N., Linehan, D., and O’Flanagan, T.P. (Eds), Atlas of Cork City (Cork University Press, Cork, 2005), pp. 231-38.

O’Hea O’Keeffe, J., Chronicles of Cork: An Oral Record, Irish Life and Lore Series (Privately Published, Tralee, 2010); see pp. 107-23.

Power, V., Voices of Cork (Blackwater Press, Dublin, 1997), see pp. 171-84 on ‘Professor John. A Murphy’.

***Copies of some of Professor Murphy’s contributions to The Sunday Independent and his letters to the Irish Times will be distributed in class.

Filmography: One to One: John A. Murphy (RTÉ, 2008); The Story of Queen Victoria’s Statue at University College Cork (UCC) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIdp2d7brA).

(3) The Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) & Civil War (1922-1923) on Film & Documentary Augusteijn, J. (Ed.), The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002).

Barry, T., Guerilla Days in Ireland (Anvil Books, Dublin, 1989).

Borgonovo, J., ‘Review Article: Revolutionary Violence and Irish Historiography’, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 150, (2012), pp. 325- 331.

Breen, D., My Fight for Irish Freedom (Anvil Books, Dublin, 1989).

Brennan, N., ‘A Political Minefield: Southern Loyalists, the Irish Grants Committee and the British Government, 1922-31’, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 30, No. 119, (1997), pp. 406-19.

Buckley, D., The Battle of Tourmakeady: A Study of the IRA Ambush and its Aftermath (Nonsuch, Dublin, 2008).

Carroll, D. (Ed.), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Galley Head Press, Cork, 2006).

Clifford, B., The Dunmanway Killings: Curiouser and Curiouser (Aubane Historical Society, Milstreet, 2012).

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Farry, M., Sligo 1914-1921: A Chronicle of Conflict (Killoran Press, Trim, 1992).

Farry, M., The Aftermath of Revolution: Sligo 1921-23 (University College Dublin Press, Dublin, 2000).

Ferriter, D., Judging Dev (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2007).

Foster, R., ‘The Red and the Green’, The Dublin Review, No. 24 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 43-51.

Fitzpatrick, D. (Ed.), Terror in Ireland 1916-1923 (The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2012).

Fitzpatrick, D., ‘Protestant Depopulation and the Irish Revolution’, Irish Depopulation and the Irish Revolution’, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 152, (2013), pp. 643-670.

Hanley, B., ‘Film Eye: The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, History Ireland, Vol. 14, No. 5 (September/October, 2006), pp. 50-51.

Hart, P., The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork 1916-1923, Paperback Edition (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999).

Hart, P., The IRA at War 1916-1923, Paperback Edition (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005).

Hopkinson, M., Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 2004).

Hopkinson, M., The Irish War of Independence (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 2004).

Kautt, W. H., ‘Studying the Irish Revolution as Military History: Ambushes and Armour’, The Irish Sword: The Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Vol. 27 (2010), pp. 253-72.

Keane, B, ‘Ethnic Cleansing? Protestant Decline in West Cork’, History Ireland, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2012), pp. 35-38.

Lee, J. J., ‘Reeling Back the Years’, The Sunday Tribune (3 November, 1996), pp. 14-15.

Murphy, B. P., ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Reflections on the Writing of Irish History in the Period of the Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence’, in O’Donnell, R. (Ed.), The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2008), pp. 200- 220.

Murphy, G., The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922 (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 2010).

O’Connor, P. (Ed.), Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions: An Incident in the Irish War of Independence (Aubane Historical Society, Milstreet, 2008).

Ó Drisceoil, D., ‘Conflict and War, 1914-1923’, in Crowley, J.S., Devoy, R.J.N., Linehan, D., and O’Flanagan, T.P. (Eds), Atlas of Cork City (Cork University Press, Cork, 2005), pp. 256-64.

Ó Drisceoil, D., ‘Framing the Irish Revolution: Ken Loach’s The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, Radical History Review, Issue 104, (Spring, 2009), pp. 5-15.

O’Malley, E., On Another Man’s Wound (Anvil Books, Dublin, 1997).

O’Malley, E., The Signing Flame (Anvil Books, Dublin, 1992).

O’Malley, E., Raids and Rallies (Anvil Books, Dublin, 2001).

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Regan, J. M., ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: “The Two Histories”’, History Ireland, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2012), pp. 10-13.

Ryan, M., Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press, Cork, 2012).

Townshend, C., The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918-1923 (Allen Lane, London, 2013).

Filmography: An Tost Fada (The Long Silence) (RTÉ, 2012); Bóthar na Saoirse (TG4/Black Rock Pictures, 2011), Cork’s Bloody Secret (RTÉ CSI, 2009); In the Name of the Republic (TV3, 2013); Ireland’s Greatest: Episode 1 (Michael Collins) (RTÉ 1, 2010); Irish Destiny (The Irish Film Institute/RTÉ, 2006); Michael Collins (Geffen Pictures, 1996); Saoirse? (Gael Linn, 2007); The Burning of Cork (RTÉ, 2005), The Killings at Coolacrease (RTÉ Hidden History, 2007), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Sixteen Films, 2006).

Journals and Magazines In addition to the popular quarterly magazine History Ireland, students should take note of some of the main academic journals concerned with the Irish past, including: Irish Historical Studies and Irish Economic and Social History.

Other Resources

Students should make an effort to tune into two radios shows broadcast on Sunday evenings, namely RTÉ Radio 1’s The History Show (with Myles Dungan) and Newstalk’s Talking History (with Patrick Geoghegan). Both of these programmes are also available as podcasts.

Programme Membership

GA_HHERG_H08 201500 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Heritage Studies