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Spring 2003
This information effective for Spring 2003. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Community Studies
[CMMU-166]
166. Northern Ireland: Communities in Conflict
Instructor:
David Brundage
Office: 312 College Eight;
Phone: 459-4645; e-mail: brundage@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wed 2-5 and by appointment
Note: This syllabus from spring 2002, but still gives a good sense of the course topics and work for the current quarter. However, there will be mandatory discussion sections for spring 2003.
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the origins and nature of the current conflict in Northern Ireland (the so-called "Troubles"). It traces the historical roots of the conflict in the interaction between nationalist aspirations and colonial policy, and it examines in detail the political and military events of the last thirty years. Personal reminiscence, political theorizing, literature, film, and journalism will be employed in our attempt to understand the nature of the conflict and the contemporary effort to achieve peace.
Attendance at all classes is mandatory and all students are expected to participate in discussions of the assigned readings. Each student will also write two papers, each 8-12 pages in length, based on the assigned readings. These papers will be due in class, April 30 and May 30.
Assigned Books:
- David
McKittrick and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles
- R. F.
Foster, ed., The Oxford History of Ireland
- Jack Holland,
The American Connection: U.S. Guns, Money, and Influence in Northern
Ireland
- Denzil McDaniel, Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday Bombing
The above are available at Bay Tree Bookstore and are on reserve at McHenry Library. In addition, there is a required course reader, available at Bay Tree Bookstore as well as on reserve.
Topics and Readings:
Note: In addition to the reading assignments below, there will be additional assignments in the reader each week.
March 25–29:
Course introduction; overview of the conflict
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Introduction, Tables and Glossary
April 1–5:
Historical roots of the conflict
Foster, ed., The Oxford History of Ireland, Editor's Forward and pp. 88-211
April 8–12:
The "orange state," 1920s-1960s
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapter 1
Foster, ed., The Oxford History of Ireland, pp. 211-29
April 15–19:
The civil rights movement of the 1960s
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapters 2-3
April 22–26:
Deadlock and violence, 1972-79
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapters 4-6
April 29–May
3: The 1980-81 hunger strikes
Film: "Some Mother's Son" (1996)
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapter 7
First paper due: Tuesday, April 30
May 6–10:
The U.S. dimension
Holland, The American Connection, Preface and Chapters 1-7
May 13–17:
The 1980s: atrocities and agreements
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapters 8-9
McDaniel, Enniskillen, entire
May 20–24:
The origins of the peace process
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapters 10-11
May 27–31:
The Belfast Agreement and beyond
McKittrick and McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, Chapter 12 and Perspectives
Holland, The American Connection, Chapter 8
Second paper due: Thursday, May 30