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May 09, 2025
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2013-2014 HillBook (Class of 2017) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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IRS 202 - Pre-Famine Ireland, 1603-1845Three Credits
Not Offered 2013-2014
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.
Course may be applied to the Irish Studies minor.
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