Hist 250 The Irish Sea Tooley Spring 2016 Schedule Schedule Schedule Schedule Schedule
The
material
listed for a given day should be read by the beginning of
class on that
day.
A hilltop and a historical experiment.
Ancient Times in the Irish Sea
3
Feb—The Irish Sea and the Ancient World.
8
Feb—Who Are the Celts? Read the
Wikipedia
entry on Celts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts 10
Feb—Around the Rim of the Sea. http://www.roman-britain.org/places/mona.htm
15
Feb—The Irish Save Civilization . For class
discussion, read of
all the Cahill book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ninian 17
Feb—Scots, Manx, Welsh, English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cornwall 22
Feb—The Arrival of the Vikings. Please
read the Barnes article from the following volume in pdf
form: http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Revaluations.pdf Also Wikipedia on the
Outer Hebrides (read the history subheadings "Norse Control" and
"Scots rule" only): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Hebrides and the piece on Ketill
Flatnose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketill_Flatnose On Welsh history, please
read pieces of the Wikipedia article: from the "post-Roman era" up
to the section on "early modern Wales": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wales And please peruse the
following abstracts or 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 complete article
is: mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/301.full.pdf "The Blood of Vikings:
Orkney's Genetic Heritage" http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/genetics.htm 24
Feb—Vying for power in the Irish Sea: English,
Scots, Welsh. Read about the Isle of
Man in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Isle_of_Man A good primer on Scottish
history: please look carefully at
this nice, detailed timeline: http://kingcrest.com/sinclair/timeline.html-ssi http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
1
Mar—Ireland: Invasions.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
3
Mar—The Structure of
Domination, 1500-1800 And 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
. Also
Read the chapter, "Cromwell in Ireland " in
Studies in Irish History (look at the date and the author—is
this info significant in terms of the treatment of the question?)
http://books.google.com/books?id=K7fSAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=irish+history&hl=en&ei=tawUTYujE8GB8gaK97j_DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=cromwell&f=false (pages 5 to 66.
Just scroll to the beginning of the book and hit the link for the
chapter). Spring Break
15 Mar--Shipping and
Shanties. Read this short history of Manchester:
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/history/town/Manchester76/
and the lyrics of the sea
shanty, "Roll, Alabama, Roll": http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/sea-shanty/Roll_Alabama_Roll!.htm and a forty- or
fifty-year-old National Archives recording of the song, probably
close to the original shanty: Roll Alabama
Roll (m4a file download, c. 3MB) And another Irish Sea
shanty, "The Leaving of Liverpool": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdKAuIkJCWs and the lyrics: http://ingeb.org/songs/fareweto.html 17 Mar--Midterm Exam 22
Mar—Enlightenment and Industry I. Discuss
Scots
book, part one (pages TBA) 24
Mar—Enlightenment and Industry II. Discuss Herman book, part
two
(pages TBA)
29
Mar—A Tale of Two Regions: Scotland and Ireland in the
Eighteenth Century. 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 31
Mar—Poets and Landscapes: the Romantic Irish Sea. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns http://www.robertburns.org/works/
Read William Wordsworth's poetry about sailing to Douglas,
IOM, in the nineteenth century (pay special attention to the all
the sea motifs, the Tower of Refuge, etc.):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
5
Apr--Visiting Scholar: Award-Winning Pianist and music historian
Jacqueline Schwab 7
Apr—The Famine.
Read the Wikipedia entry on "The Great Famine":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_famine 12
Apr—Shipwrecks! Look through the site by
Diver/Historian Adrian Corkill and his info on shipwrecks: http://www.iom-shipwrecks.com/main.htm (Be sure to read his
summary on the main page, and also explore the "wreck of the week"
and "wreck diving news")
Also, Mr. Corkill has sent us some information on two German subs
which sank close to the IOM during World War II.
Please look carefully at this information: 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
Isle of Man Steam Packet
Company history http://www.steam-packet.com/SteamPacket/About-Us/ Read an article on a
Viking shipwreck: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba59/feat4.shtml And shipwrecks at another
part of the IOM coast: http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/countryside/sound/shipwrecks.xml And the loss of the Ellan
Vannin , 1909: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/mquart/mq08699.htm And a comment by Robin
Gibb (of the BeeGees) on the hundredth anniv. of the sinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mgfeLg_JU0 And, by the way, a
singing of one of the Isle of Man patriotic songs, "Ellan Vannin"
(Manx for Isle of Man). The BeeGees
were born on the IOM, and the surviving brothers very much
identify with it today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaCz4Ffs9kU&feature=related
14 Apr—Other Patterns of
Life in the Irish Sea Region. Read
all of the Google Books "preview" of Katie Wales's book on
"northern English" (caution—in the previews, you get only random
parts of the book, but there is enough here to make sense of it):
http://books.google.com/books?id=IaOuTaQ5zq4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=wales+culture+history&hl=en&ei=OcEUTaiON4-p8AaYvpWJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=wales%20culture%20history&f=false
21
Apr—The Damnable Question as an Irish Sea Question: Self-Rule , O'Connell,
and Parnell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell Enemy Aliens, Easter Rising,
Celts in the British Army. 28
Apr—Ireland and Scotland After
World War II 3
May—The Isle of Man. Fairies, Motorcycles, and Tax Havens.
For this day: Riding Man (whole book).
OR Turning Tides .http://ijms.nova.edu/November2007TT/IJMS_Artcl.Vaukins.html
Please read the Vaukins
article whether you read Riding
Man or not. 5
May—Presentations.
9
May—Review Day.
No Class.
*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.