Hist
350, The Irish Sea Hunt Tooley
Fall 2020 Class Schedule*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_Rebellion_of_1497
The material listed for a given
day is meant to indicate that you should read that material
before arriving at class that day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
And on the
Picts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts
An Irish Sea
script:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
1 Sep—Some old history:
Read
Wikipedia on the history of Cornwall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cornwall
And
read the first part of this good time line on Scotland, just up
"The Union of the Crowns"
https://www.scotland.org/about-scotland/history-timeline
And
read this short and fairly scholarly review of the history of
the invasions of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes:
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
3 Sep—The
Irish Save Civilization. For class,
read the Cahill book, How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Be ready for a quick reading quiz 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
Vikings
and Others, 800-1500
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
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:
https://www.scotland.org/about-scotland/history-timeline
Also: 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.
Finally, a brief Wikipedia entry on the Cornish Rebellion of
1497
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_Rebellion_of_1497
15 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
The
Structure of Domination in Ireland, 1500-1800
17 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
.
https://spartacus-educational.com/ExamECW7.htm
22 Sep—Class Clinic on Music of the Irish Sea. No reading, but be reading the Herman book on Scotland.
24 Sep--Loose
Ends. Work on your reading and your paper!!
(Herman!!).
First Essay is due on Fri. afternoon, Sep. 25, at 5:00 via
Turnitin.com
29 Sep--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/
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
Enlightenment,
Shipping, and Industry, 1700-1850
1 Oct—NO CLASS
6 Oct—A Tale of Two Regions:
Scotland and Ireland in
the Eighteenth Century.
Be ready to take a reading quiz on all of the Herman book.
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
8 Oct—The
Irish Hunger and Immigration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_famine
13 Oct—Midterm
Exam. Form to Be Announced.
15 Oct—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.
And here is a short review of his book on the subject:
http://archive.divernet.com/reviews/p302748-shipwrecks-of-the-isle-of-man-by-adrian-corkill.html
And a BBC
article on diving for wrecks around the Isle of Man, featuring
Adrian Corkill:
And the loss
of the Ellan Vannin, 1909. No need to read about every victim,
but the little bios are quite interesting:
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 identified with the Isle of Man throughout their lives (of
Robin, Maurice, and Barry, only Barry is still living:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaCz4Ffs9kU&feature=related
20 Oct—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 another
Irish Sea shanty, "The Leaving of Liverpool":
(please listen to all of it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjiIFHU1quo
and the lyrics: http://ingeb.org/songs/fareweto.html
22 Oct--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):
(Also, some
comments on
Britain in the nineteenth century: the place of
Ireland in the Empire via Powerpoint with sound, link TBA)
27 Oct—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
29 Oct—The folk movement, ethnic revival, technology, and life in the Irish Sea region around 1900. Spotlight on John McCormack and David Lloyd George. (photos from the Manx museum etc.
Second Paper due on Fri., 30 Oct., at 5:00pm, via
Turnitin.com
The Two World
Wars and the Irish Sea
3 Nov—World War I Patterns: Ships, Men, Internment, the Lusitania, and More
On the Lusitania
https://www.claddaghdesign.com/history/the-lusitania-irelands-other-sailing-disaster/
5 Nov--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
12 Nov—World War II in the Irish
Sea
Read the Wikipedia entry, intro only:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_neutrality_during_World_War_IIhttps://uboat.net/maps/irish_sea.htm
and look
at the Irish Sea U-Boot war in maps
https://uboat.net/maps/irish_sea.htm
The Irish
Sea Since World War II
17 Nov—Music from the Irish Sea: from the fifties to the present
Before class, please watch one of these three feature films:
"The War of the Buttons" OR "The Commitments" OR "Waking Ned
Devine" All should be on Netflix.
26 Nov—THANKSGIVING WEEK
28
Nov--THANKSVIGING WEEK
ONLY REMOTE CLASSES FOR THIS WEEK
1 Dec—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
3 Dec--For this day: Riding
Man (whole book).
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.
