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Week 2: January 13th

Required Readings

Howe, Stephen. Ireland and Empire Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. See chapters 1, 4, and 12.

Kenny, Kevin. "Ireland and the British Empire: An Introduction." In Ireland and the British Empire, edited by Kevin Kenny, 1-25. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Ohlmeyer, Jane. "Anglicization." In Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World, by Jane Ohlmeyer, 30-67. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Additional Readings

Bartlett, Thomas. " Ireland, Empire, and the Union, 1690-1801." In Ireland and the British Empire, edited by Kevin Kenny, 61-89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Jackson, Alvin. "Ireland, the Union, and the Empire, 1800-1960." In Ireland and the British Empire, edited by Kevin Kenny, 123-53. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Cleary, Joe. "Postcolonial Ireland." In Ireland and the British Empire, edited by Kevin Kenny, 251-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Kennedy, Liam. “Modern Ireland: Post-Colonial Society or Postcolonial Pretensions?” In Colonialism, Religion, and Nationalism in Ireland, 167-81. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, 1996. IN PRINT ONLY.

McBride, Ian, and Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, organizers. Decolonising Irish History? A Panel Discussion. YouTube. Conference discussion supported by TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, 2 November 2020.

Week 3: January 20th

Required Readings

Bartlett, Thomas. Ireland: A History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. pp. 112-28.

Ohlmeyer, Jane. "Assimilation." In Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World, by Jane Ohlmeyer, 77-96. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Jones, Inga. “’Holy War’? Religion, Ethnicity and Massacre during the Irish Rebellion 1641-2.” In The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion, edited by Eamon Darcy, Elaine Murphy, and Annaleigh Margey, 129-42. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

Canny, Nicholas. “1641 in a Colonial Context.” In Ireland: 1641 Contexts and Reactions, edited by Jane Ohlmeyer and Micheál Ó Siochrú, 52-70. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.

Additional Readings

Edwards, David, Pádraig Lenihan, and Clodagh Tait. Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts, 2007. IN PRINT ONLY.

Darcy, Eamon, Elaine Murphy, and Annaleigh Margey, eds. The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

Gibney, John. The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. IN PRINT ONLY.

Ohlmeyer, Jane H., and Micheál Ó Siochrú, eds. Ireland: 1641 Contexts and Reactions. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.

McAreavey, Naomi. “Portadown, 1641: Memory and the 1641 Depositions.” Irish University Review 47, no. 1 (2017): 15–31. https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2017.0254.

Week 4: January 27th

Required Readings

Coogan, Tim Pat. The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Kennedy, Liam. Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? Sallins, Co. Kildare: Merrion, 2016. Chapters 4 & 5 .

Kennedy, Liam, and Tim Pat Coogan. "Was the Famine a Genocide?" Radio Debate Clip. BBC Radio Ulster - Sunday Sequence. Uploaded by Jonny McCullagh, December 10, 2012. YouTube, 19:48. https://youtu.be/7YTOXoyhXvY?si=ZkWOI7ol-ns8__SN.

Denying-History. "The Neo-Mitchelites -- One Book of No Use: Review of The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy, by Tim Pat Coogan." Die Drei Raben (blog). November 24, 2022. https://diedreiraben.substack.com/p/the-neo-mitchelites-one-book-of-no.

Donnelly, James S. The Great Irish Potato Famine. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2010. See pages 209-45..

Gray, Peter. "Was the Great Irish Famine a Colonial Famine?" East, West 8, no. 1 (2021): 159–72. https://doi.org/10.21226/ewjus643.

Additional Readings

Mitchel, John, and Patrick. Maume. The Last Conquest of Ireland (perhaps). Glasgow: R&T Washbourne, [1882]. For a modern edition, see this one from 2005. Available only in print. See especially Chapter XXIV.

McGowan, Mark G. “The Famine Plot Revisited: A Reassessment of the Great Irish Famine as Genocide.” Genocide Studies International 11, no. 1 (2017): 87–104. https://doi.org/10.3138/gsi.11.1.04.

Bew, Paul. Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. See pages 175-230.

Haines, Robin F. Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine. Dublin: Four Courts, 2003. IN PRINT ONLY at the Robarts Library.

Week 5: February 3rd

Required Readings

O’Brien, Conor Cruise. "Chapter 2."States of Ireland. Hutchinson, 1972. See pages 34-47.

Howe, Stephen. Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. See chapters 9 and 10 [pages 169-216]. .

English, Richard. "Conclusion."Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA. Oxford University Press, 2003. See pages 337-84.

Hewitt, John. "The Colony." The Bell 18 no. 11 (1953): 33-37.

Additional Readings

Mulholland, Marc. The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Whyte, John. Interpreting Northern Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon, 2023.

Wright, Frank. Northern Ireland: A ComparNorthern Ireland: A Comparative Analysisative Analysis. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 1992. Available online through the Internet Archive with free registration. Also available at the Robarts Library IN PRINT.

Week 6: February 10th

Required Readings

Akenson, Donald H. "The Great European Migration and Indigenous Peoples." In Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, edited by Graeme Morton and David A. Wilson, 22-48. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.

Kenny, Kevin. "The Irish in the Empire." In Ireland and the British Empire, edited by Kevin Kenny, 90-122. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Ohlmeyer, Jane. "Agents of Empire." In Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World, by Jane Ohlmeyer, 99-140. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Additional Readings

Wilson, David A, and Graeme Morton. Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.

Reading Week: February 17th

Week 7: February 24th

Required Readings

Rodgers, Nini. "The Irish and the Atlantic Slave Trade." History Ireland 15 no. 3 (2007): 17-23.

Akenson, Donald H. If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997. See pages 47-57, 61-65, 140-43, and 173-5.

Zacek, Natalie. "How the Irish Became Black." In Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Finola O'Kane and Ciaran O'Neill, 321-36. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

Hogan, Liam. "‘Irish slaves’: The Convenient Myth." OpenDemocracy.net, January 14, 2015, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/irish-slaves-convenient-myth/.

Hogan, Liam. "Two Years of the ‘Irish Slaves’ Myth: Racism, Reductionism and the Tradition of Diminishing the Transatlantic Slave Trade." OpenDemocracy.net, November 7, 2016, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/two-years-of-irish-slaves-myth-racism-reductionism-and-tradition-of-diminis/.

Hogan, Liam. "Anatomy of a Modern Lie." Tortoise, May 12, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20201103115413/https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2019/05/12/irish-slaves/content.html?sig=Sg0fOsOGg-0jM7ERLgh20TzZldsEDMxQNrS1P2G6F-k&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=12May2019&utm_content=Irish_slaves.

Casey, Natasha. "Beyond the Pale: Irishness and White Supremacy in 1990s America." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 43 (2020): 146–71.

Additional Readings

Rodgers, N. Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865. 1st ed. 2007. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Rodgers, Nini. “Equiano in Belfast: A Study of the Anti Slavery Ethos in a Northern Town.” Slavery & Abolition, vol. 18, no. 2 (August 1997), 73-89.

Week 8: March 3rd

Required Readings

King, William. "Transcript of the autobiography of Rev. William King." Typescript dated 1892. Library and Archives Canada. Last modified December 11, 2024, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=617148&lang=eng. For background, see "William King" in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Campbell, John F. The Campbells of Drumaboden. Abridged and edited by Kerby Miller. Nashville: Foster & Parkes, 1925. Access on Quercus.

Davin, Nicholas Flood. Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds. Ottawa, 1879. https://dev.nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Davin-Report.pdf. For background, see "Nicholas Flood Davin” in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Additional Readings

Kenny, Kevin. Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Wallace, Anthony F. C, and Eric Foner. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. IN PRINT ONLY at the Robarts Library.

Cave, Alfred A. Sharp Knife: Andrew Jackson and the American Indians. Santa Barbara: Praeger, ABC-CLIO, 2017. IN PRINT ONLY at the Robarts Library.

Cave, Alfred A. “Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830.” The Historian 65, no. 6 (2003): 1330–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0018-2370.2003.00055.x.

Week 9: March 10th

Required Readings

Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 2009. See pages 1-3, 72-104, and 205-17.

Katznelson, Ira, et al. How the Irish Became White: Panel Discussion YouTube. Panel discussion at Columbia University, 16 October 2020. Start at 3’, and continue until 12’48”.

O’Malley, Patrick R. "Irish Whiteness and the Nineteenth-Century Construction of Race." Victorian Literature and Culture 51 no. 2 (2023): 167–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150322000067.

Quinn, James. "John Mitchel and the Rejection of the Nineteenth Century." Éire-Ireland 38, no. 3 (2003): 90–108. https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2003.0005.

Hogan, Liam. "John Mitchel was hailed as a totem for Irish liberty … but he was a white supremacist." The Journal, January 19th, 2014, https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/john-mitchel-was-hailed-as-a-totem-for-irish-liberty-but-he-was-a-white-supremacist-1266182-Jan2014/.

Finn, Clodagh. "Why Do GAA Clubs Still Honour Pro-Slavery John Mitchel?” Irish Examiner, 13 June 2020, https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-31004955.html.

Corr, Shauna. "Statue of Slavery Supporter John Mitchel in Newry should be Pulled Down, say Campaigners." BelfastLive, June 10, 2020, https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/john-mitchel-statue-newry-should-18392253.

Young, Connla. "Council to Establish Responsibility for John Mitchel Statue." Irish News, 23 June 2020, https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/06/23/news/council-to-establish-responsibility-for-john-mitchel-statue-1982264/.

Brundage, David. "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Irish Revolution: Anticolonial Activism in New York, 1916-1921." In The Irish Revolution: A Global History, edited by Patrick Mannion & Fearghal McGarry, 316-34. New York: New York University Press, 2022.

Additional Readings

Wilson, David A. United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. See especially pages 133-52.

Wilson, David A. “‘Darky McGee,’ Slavery and Nationalism.” Thomas D’Arcy McGee Summer School, 2021. Access on Quercus.

Murphy, Angela F. American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. IN PRINT ONLY at the Robarts and UofT Mississauga libraries.

Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Nelson, Bruce. Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. See especially pages 181-221.

McMahon, Cian T. The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.