Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Explore in detail the connections between the key themes interrogated throughout the course and the phenomenon of famine as it effected nineteenth century Ireland
- Develop an awareness of comparative approaches to history.
- Develop a working knowledge of the relevant key debates in international famine studies, and of the historiography of the Great Famine in particular.
- 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 final year student of history.
Indicative Module Content:
The module addresses such topics as:
- The political economy of famine
- Vulnerability, entitlement and scarcity
- Land, environment and ecology
- Disease, health and medicine
- Relief, charity and humanitarianism
- Technologies of famine
- War, violence and revolution
- Displacement, dispersal and migration
- Gender and sexuality
- Representation: art, literature and media
- Memory, folklore and commemoration