Modern Ireland: Emigration to Immigration

(2.5,3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

IRST 30010 Modern Ireland: From Emigration to Immigration at UCD; This course will look at the history and culture of Ireland in the late nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first century through the lens of its experience of emigration and immigration. The course will focus on the history of emigration in Irish society and the transition to immigration. It will analyze the pattern of emigration for the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth and the very different pattern of immigration in the contemporary period. A major aspect of the course will be the analysis of representations of emigration and immigration in literary and visual texts This is an interdisciplinary course, combining sociological, historical, geographical and cultural perspectives.Students are expected to cover all the advance reading assigned weekly and to complete two written assignments.