Learning Outcomes:
• understand key debates and concepts related to landscape and environment in Ireland;
• analyse primary sources relevant to the module;
• present arguments, based on primary and secondary source research, in oral and written form;
• Enhance critical reading, writing, thinking, and verbal skills
Indicative Module Content:
Week 1 Peoples and Landscapes in early modern Ireland
Week 2 Migration in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland
Week 3 Ireland in the Atlantic World
Week 4 Migration, ethnicity and conflict in 1641
Week 5 Changing Irish landscapes 1500-1800
Week 6 Urban landscapes: early modern Dublin
Week 7 Provincial urban landscapes
Week 8 Landscapes of the Ascendancy
Week 9 The Penal Laws and Landscape / Environment
Week 10 Environmental change in early modern Ireland
Week 11 Class Presentations