Summary:

This asks you to consider the history of Ireland from the Tudor Era to the period just before the Easter Rising. Please answer the questions using the course readings (Jackson, Paseta, Coogan, and various articles). Essays should have careful citations, plentiful evidence, and clear, concise answers that address the central issues in Ireland’s past. Each essay should be at least 400 words.

1. Explain the plantation system introduced to Ireland during the Tudor-Stuart era and its consequences for Irish land use into the modern era.

2. Identify and explain the central conflicts between Ireland and Britain’s Parliament in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

3. The Great Hunger is one of the most significant events in Ireland’s nineteenth century. Explain the origins and consequences–both social and political–of the Famine.