Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Apply migration theory to the Irish migration experience since 1945
- Explain how emigration and immigration have shaped modern-day Ireland
- Compare and contrast Ireland’s migration experiences with other countries
- Critically engage with a variety of primary and secondary material
- Contribute regularly and in a meaningful way to class discussion
- Write scholarly essays to the standard of a level 3 student of history
Indicative Module Content:
The module addresses such topics as:
- Why do people migrate?
- What impact does immigration have on a destination society?
- The ‘vanishing Irish’, 1945-1960
- The Irish experience abroad in the 1950s
- Return migrants, 1960s-1970s
- Banana republic? The 1980s exodus
- Return migration and the Irish diaspora
- Seeking asylum in Ireland
- Labour immigration and Ireland
- Ireland compared
- Migration nation