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124267 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) (2015W)

The Irish Outlaw: The Making of a Nationalist Icon

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 16.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 23.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 30.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 06.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 13.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 20.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 27.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 04.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 11.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 18.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 08.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 15.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 22.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 29.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Outlaw occupies a pivotal position in the history, popular culture and fiction of Ireland, Britain, America and Australia. Historians, however, have often found it difficult to follow these elusive figures through the battlefields, bogs, borderlands, badlands and bush. This has not been made easier by the transformation of the bandit and outlaw in Irish, British, American and Australian historiography and hagiography. The popular historians, political commentators and reporters of the late eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries often portrayed him as a 'noble robber' and Robin Hood-like figure. Irish nationalists in the nineteenth and twentieth century viewed him as a prototype nationalist icon: the 'outlaw rapparee' would be eulogized in popular song, chapbook and verse. He has remained the focus of a number of recent popular histories, documentaries and films.
The module is designed to provide students with an outline of the most significant events, trends and developments in the history and historiography of the Irish outlaw since the early modern period.

Assessment and permitted materials

The course will be assessed by the following criteria:
1. Attendance and participation in class
2. A short essay (see essay titles on Moodle page)
3. A two-hour exam on the last day of class. Students will be asked to write 10 short paragraphs (10 lines each) on ten topics out of 25.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- To provide an introduction to the history of the Irish Outlaw
- To introduce key historical and historiographical discussion and debates
- To develop skills of critical analysis, argument and formal academic writing
- To encourage engagement with alternative historical viewpoints
- To enhance the adaptation to independent patterns of study characteristic of third-level Education

Examination topics

Lectures, seminars, tutorials, discussion groups and screenings per week.

Reading list

- Burke, P., Popular culture in early modern Europe (London, 1978)
- Hobsbawm, E. Bandits (London, 2002)
- Gattrell, V.A.C., The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Oxford,1994)
- Moore, T., The Memoirs of Captain Rock, ed. Emer Nolan (Dublin, 2008)
- Ó Ciardha, É., ‘The Irish Outlaw: the making of a nationalist icon’, in J. Kelly, J. McCafferty and I. McGrath (eds), People and politics in Ireland: Essays on Irish History, 166001850 in honour of James I McGuire (UCD, 2009), pp 51-70
- Ó Ciosáin, N., ‘The Irish Rogues’, in Donnelly, J. and Miller, K. (ed.), Irish popular culture1650-1850 (Dublin, 1998), 78-97
All texts will be provided as handouts or are available at Google Books.

Association in the course directory

Studium: MA 844; UF MA 046
Code/Modul: MA5; MA6, MA7; UF MA 4A
Lehrinhalt: 12-4261

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