HIS20960 Living Loving & Dying in 19th Century Ireland

Academic Year 2024/2025

What was it like to live in nineteenth-century Ireland? How can we retrieve the histories and stories of ordinary people and the experiences of love and marriage, birth and death, crime and punishment, earning of living and of sickness and health. What forms of leisure did people pursue and enjoy? How important was issues like class, gender, religion and 'respectability' to the lived experiences? Was Ireland a 'modern' country when it entered the twentieth century, and if so, how did this effect the fabric of people's lives? This module explores these questions and the forces which shaped people' lives during a period when Ireland was part of the British Empire. It examines the impact of forces of modernity on Irish society and encourages students to question the framing of Ireland as a social and political entity with a unique history. The Irish case will be situated within broader European and British trends.

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