Hist 250, The Irish Sea Hunt Tooley Fall 2022 Class Schedule*

The material listed for a given day is meant to indicate that you should read that material before arriving at class that day.

23 Aug—Introduction. Around the Rim of the Sea: Irish, Scots, Manx, Cornish, Welsh, English. Physical and Social Geography
ppt for class: Irish Sea Geography intro

Ancient Times in the Irish Sea

25 Aug—Imagining Early Human History Around and On the Irish Sea.
Read down to, and not including, "Oil and gas exploration" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea
And the Wikipedia entry on Celts, just the "introduction," the part before "Contents":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts

And on the Picts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts

Also: short in-class clinic on accents around the Irish Sea, based on the International Dialects of English Archive
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
but only go here and browse if you like--we will be using this in-class.

30 Aug—Roman Empire, Roman Church, and the Irish Sea

Watch this CrashCourse video on the Romans by John Green and others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPf27gAup9U
And read the Wikipedia (just the intro) on "Roman Britain"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain

1 Sep—Some old history:

And read this short and fairly scholarly review of the history of the invasions of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes:

https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/anglo-saxon-migrations

Especially, look carefully at this map of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles#/media/File:Anglo-Saxon_Homelands_and_Settlements.svg

6 Sep—The Irish Save Civilization. For class, read the Cahill book, How the Irish Saved Civilization. Bring your copy to class. Be ready for a quick reading quiz (valued times 4) and a class discussion. Think especially about Irish Christianity AND about the role of women in ancient Irish society and culture.

Also, take a quick look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_cross

8 Sep--The Arrival of the Vikings.
Optional, for those interested, the Barnes article from the following volume in pdf form:

http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Revaluations.pdf

Read Wikipedia on the Outer Hebrides (read the history subheadings "Norse Control" and "Scots rule" only):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Hebrides

And skim the piece on Ketill Flatnose:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketill_Flatnose

And please peruse (read the abstracts, or the short articles if available) in the following articles on recent genetic evidence:
"Genetic evidence for a family-based Scandinavian settlement of Shetland and Orkney during the Viking periods"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15815712
"Excavating Past Population Stuctures by Surname-Based Sampling: The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in Northwest England"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18032405
"The Blood of Vikings: Orkney's Genetic Heritage"
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/genetics.htm
And new DNA work on some Irish burial remains:
https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Press-and-Media-Information/Latest-Media-Releases/First-genome-sequences-of-Irish-Vikings-reveal-tie

And a summary of findings for the Isle of Man:

http://www.manxdna.co.uk/dna_of_the_isle_of_man.htm

13 Sep—The Normans and the British Isles

Beginning of class, Map Quiz 1.
Watch this quick, but accurate, video about the Normans;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owf5Uq4oFps
And this on on the formation of the English language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaSxhcns7Y

15 Sep—Vying for power in the Irish Sea: English, Scots, Welsh.

Read about the Isle of Man in Wikipedia (only down to and not including "Early Modern Period"):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Isle_of_Man

And this primer on Scottish history: please look carefully at this solid, detailed timeline down to and not including "1800":

https://www.scotland.org/about-scotland/history-timeline

Finally, a brief Wikipedia entry on the Cornish Rebellion of 1497
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_Rebellion_of_1497

Also, not to read ahead of time, but for class, ppt, "Ireland After the Normans" IrelandAfterNormans

20 Sep—Ireland: Invasions.
Josiah Russell, "Late Thirteenth-Century Ireland as a Region," in Demography (1966), JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2060175

And read about Hugh O'Neill and his rebellion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_O'Neill,_2nd_Earl_of_Tyrone

and the siege of Dunboy Castle etc.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Dunboy

22 Sep--The Seventeenth Century in Ireland

Read J. Michael Hill, "The Origins of the Scottish Plantations in Ulster to 1625," in the Journal of British Studies: http://www.jstor.org/stable/176018
Bring a copy, electronic or printed, to class.
Br.

And also, Spartacus Educational on Cromwell in Ireland

https://spartacus-educational.com/ExamECW7.htm

27 Sep--Class Clinic on the traditional music of the Irish Sea. No reading, but be reading the Herman book on Scotland.

29 Sep--No Class. Work on your reading and your paper!! (The Herman book about Scotland!).

First Paper due on Friday, September 30 at 5pm via Turnitin.

4 Oct—Enlightenment, Shipping, and Industry, 1700-1850
Read the Wikipedia entry on "John Paul Jones"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones

6 Oct—A Tale of Two Regions: Scotland and Ireland in the Eighteenth Century.
Be ready to take a 4X reading quiz on all of the Herman book. And bring your copy of the book to class.

Read also this BBC article on the Irish Rebellion of 1798:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/irish_reb_01.shtml

and this on Wolf Tone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe_Tone

and this on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

11 Oct—Been There, Done That!
no reading

13 Oct—And been there, too! Review for Exam.

18 Oct—Midterm Exam.

20 Oct--Poets and Landscapes: the Romantic Irish Sea II

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
and four poems (your choice) from http://www.robertburns.org/works/
You will be reading at least a couple of them in class. Or I will!
Read William Wordsworth's poetry about sailing to Douglas, IOM, in the nineteenth century (read carefully no. XV and read a couple of the others to talk about.):

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/wd1833.htm

And read his sister Dorothy's journal of her visit of 1829:

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/dw1828.htm
Give this lesser known sister of William time and concentration. She has been undeservedly undervalued, and her journals are quite striking, especially these from the Isle of Man. We will be discussing this in depth. Bring a copy, electronic or printed.

25 Oct—No Class. Work on your second paper!

27 Oct—The Irish Hunger and Immigration

Read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_famine

AND watch The Irish in America, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xONqZXzQ1yY
Please make plenty of time to watch this excellent documentary carefully. It lasts an hour and 27 minutes. Very important.

1 Nov—Shipwrecks! Diver/Historian Adrian Corkill is an authority on shipwrecks around the Isle of Man. He has sent several items for our information. Here is one of them.

Two Sunken German Subs

And a BBC article on diving for wrecks around the Isle of Man, featuring Adrian Corkill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/isleofman/content/articles/2007/02/22/diving_feature.shtml

And the loss of the Ellan Vannin, 1909. I think the little bios are very effective in envisioning daily life on the Irish Sea in the early twentieth century. Please read them.

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/mquart/mq08699.htm

Here is very brief comment, with pics, on a still visible 1931 wreck.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/passages-shipwreck

And a very recent find in the waters of the Irish Sea

https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/entertainment/diver-unearths-secrets-of-a-sunken-navy-ship-561570

And another

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-07-21/the-mystery-of-the-sunken-u-246-boat

3 Nov--The Damnable Question as an Irish Sea Question: Self-Rule, O'Connell, and Parnell.
Read the Wikipedia entry on Daniel O'Connell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell

8 Nov----World War I: Ships, Men, Internment, the Lusitania, and the Easter Rising

On the Lusitania
https://www.claddaghdesign.com/history/the-lusitania-irelands-other-sailing-disaster/

The Easter Rising: Ireland 1916
History.com on the Eastern Rising
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/easter-rising

10 Nov—Irish Independence and other Irish Sea developments, from the Easter Rising to World War II
Read Wikipedia, "Irish Independence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_Irish_Republic
And read this Irish history site on the Irish Civil War
https://www.theirishstory.com/2012/07/02/the-irish-civil-war-a-brief-overview/#.X0QQhdNKigQ

And the article on Eamon de Valera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera

Second paper due on Friday, Nov. 11, at 5:00pm via Turnitin

15 Nov—World War II in the Irish Sea

Read the Wikipedia entry, intro only:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_neutrality_during_World_War_II https://uboat.net/maps/irish_sea.htm

and look at the Irish Sea U-Boot war in maps https://uboat.net/maps/irish_sea.htm

17 Nov—Music from the Irish Sea: from the fifties to the present

24 Nov—THANKSGIVING WEEK

26 Nov--THANKSVIGING WEEK

29 Nov—The Troubles: Ireland and Northern Ireland from the sixties to the present
Watch this documentary on the Troubles and their Legacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM-OC0p9us

1 Dec--Read the whole Phelan book, Turning Tides for a class discussion and a 4x reading quiz. Bring your copy to class.

And Simon Vaukins, "The Isle of Man TT Races: Politics, Economics and National Identity,"
http://ijms.nova.edu/November2007TT/IJMS_Artcl.Vaukins.html

*With special thanks to Claire Corkill and Ray Moore, of the Isle of Man, both for stimulating suggestions about Irish Sea history from their extensive knowledge of history and archeology, and for numerous excellent suggestions for these readings. Also, thanks to Adrian Corkill, also of the Isle of Man, whose writing on shipwrecks provides important reading for the course; he kindly supplied further information from his files for the class to use.