Our course will meet once a week in the evenings, with our expectation
being that each of us will give a lecture concerning a single topic --
the Union, Catholic Emancipation, the Famine, Land Reform, Home Rule,
etc. In general my lecture will present the English aspect of the
issue, what the government's concerns, expectations, etc. were and my
colleague who knows the Irish side better, Padraic Kennedy, will present
the Irish view of the same subject. The course will primarily cover the
span of the Union but spend the last two or three sessions covering events
since the 1920s and considering the present situation.
Our intention had been to assign an Irish text -- with Foster's _Modern
Ireland_ the likely choice -- with possibly a more Anglocentric text
alongside it. R.K. Webb, _Modern England_ is probably too long and it,
likely W. Arnstein's volumes, also goes too far into areas which will not
figure highly in this course. Does anyone have any other suggestions for
texts, or for other books (primary, secondary, or literary) which would be
useful in exploring Anglo-Irish relationship over this period?
Any help will be appreciated. Many thanks.
Derek Blakeley & Padraic Kennedy
Washington University, St. Louis
dwblakel@artsci.wustl.edu
pkennedy@artsci.wustl.edu