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2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

IRS 202 - Pre-Famine Ireland, 1603-1845

Three Credits
Spring Semester

The destruction of the Gaelic heroic world following defeat of Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale and subsequent dispersal of native Irish and Old English aristocracy. Introduces political, social and economic structures of this period and the disintegration of Gaelic Irish cultural values and literary traditions from the Elizabethan period to the famines of the 1840s. Concludes with an overview of economic, social and demographic trends in pre-famine Ireland.