Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6125HIST-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To enable students to engage in a critical debate about the historiography
associated with key events in Irish history.
2. To enable students to engage a range of digitally available primary sources including audio, images, texts. As part of this they will critically examine both the sources but also the strengths and weaknesses of the websites.
3. To enable students to assess how the past is interpreted over time, and to evaluate celebrations and commemorations of key events in Irish history
Learning Outcomes
1.
Apply a rigorous appraisal of how and why past events have commemorated, celebrated and recalled by later generations
2.
Critically evaluate a wide and diverse range of source material (including press, speeches, letters, films, music, tv)
3.
Critically analyse Irish historiography in relation to the evolving understanding of the past.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Introduction to issues surrounding celebration and commemoration of the past.
How, why and where we teach history?
1798 Rebellion
1798 Rebellion – commemoration
Great Irish Famine
Great Irish Famine – commemoration
1916 Easter Rising
1916 Commemoration
Visible & invisible history
Module Overview:
The aim of this module will enable you to engage in a critical debate about the historiography associated with key events in Irish history. You will engage with different methods of teaching history to different audiences to critically assess the way in which the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Easter Rising have been commemorated and celebrated by later generations.
The aim of this module will enable you to engage in a critical debate about the historiography associated with key events in Irish history. You will engage with different methods of teaching history to different audiences to critically assess the way in which the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Easter Rising have been commemorated and celebrated by later generations.
Additional Information:This module offers students an opportunity to critically examine how significant events in Irish history have been both celebrated and commemorated by later generations. Students will engage with events both as they unfolded and as
they have been recalled.
As part of this module students will consider how, where and why we study history. They will assess how Irish history has been imparted through a range of sources including school text books, documentaries, films, museums, streetscapes, memorials, festivals etc.
Students will consider three case studies: the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine
(1845-1849) and the 1916 Easter Rising. They will examine the events themselves
and they will assess how they have been remembered/commemorated/memorialised
and manipulated by later generations.