HISTORY
Revolutionary Dublin: History, Buildings and Afterlife
SPRING HN250
Monday
Tutor: John Gibney
How much can you learn about Dublin? And how much do you already know? These interactive course will help students to indulge their curiosity about Dublin’s history, and to build on their own knowledge and experience of the city, by using aspects of Dublin’s history to encourage a fresh engagement with its past, its present, and hopefully its future. This course will look at the history of Dublin by examining the cultural, political and social history of the city in terms of its ‘revolutionary’ past: rebellions, radical politics, and social unrest from the middle ages to the Civil War of 1922-23. While this is a distinct course in its own right, it is also intended to complement the proposed course on ‘Colonial and Imperial Dublin’.
The course is a combination of lectures on Tuesday evenings and walks on Saturday mornings.
| BELFIELD | ||
| 6 Tuesdays | Jan 29, Feb 5, 12, 19, 26, Mar 5 | 7.30pm - 9.30pm |
| 4 Saturdays | Feb 2, 16, 23, Mar 9 | 11.00am - 1.00pm |
| FEE €190 | Print Open Learning Application Form 2012.13 or ring (01) 716 7123 for Laser/ credit card payment |
Tutor Details:
John Gibney is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and has been a researcher at both the University of Notre Dame and NUI Galway. He is the author of Ireland and the Popish Plot (Palgrave, 2008) and was a contributor to the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Originally from Kilbarrack in north Dublin, he has worked in heritage tourism in the city since 2001.
Provisional List of Key Topics:
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Introduction: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dublin Crowd from the Restoration to ‘Grattan’s Parliament’, 1660-1782
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The ‘Rebel’ Liberties
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Republican Dublin: the United Irishmen, 1791-1803
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Fenian Dublin, 1858-1898
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Nineteenth-century underworlds
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Social revolutionaries: from Famine to Lockout, 1845-1913
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Symbols and streetscapes
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Republican Dublin: the Great War and the Easter Rising, 1914-16
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Revolutionary Dublin, 1918-1923
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Revolutionary Dublin and street politics, 1913-1939
Who is the course for?
Anyone with an interest in the history of Dublin
Reading List:
The following is a selection of recommended texts for those interested in reading further around the course content. We advise that you do not buy books in advance of the course as your tutor will discuss the list and suggest the most relevant reading for particular interests.
A more detailed reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course. What follows is a selected list of general works, along with more specific studies of some topics:
Brian Barton and Michael Foy, The Easter Rising (2nd ed. Stroud, 2011)
Christine Casey, Dublin: The City within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park (New Haven, 2005)
Joseph E.A. Connell, Dublin in Rebellion: A Directory 1913-1923 (2009),
Art Cosgrove (ed), Dublin through the ages (Dublin, 1988)
Maurice Craig, Dublin, 1660-1860 (London, 1952, and subsequent editions)
Catriona Crowe (ed), Dublin 1911 (Dublin, 2011)
Mary E. Daly, Dublin, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1900 (Cork, 1984; 2011)
Dublin’s Fighting Story (Cork, 1959; 2009).
Liz Gillis, The Fall of Dublin (Cork, 2011)
Jim Herlihy, The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A Short History and Geneological Guide (Dublin, 2001)
Kevin C. Kearns, Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History (Dublin, 1994)
Ruan O’Donnell, Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798; Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803 (both Dublin, 2003)
Joseph Brady and Anngret Simms (eds), Dublin through Space and Time (Dublin, 2001)
Clair Wills, Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (London, 2009)
Padraig Yeates, Lockout: Dublin 1913 (Dublin, 2000)
Padraig Yeates, A city in wartime: Dublin 1914-18 (Dublin, 2011)
