Irish contemporary history class review
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(1) Review Essay
In order to secure credit for the course, you are required to submit a review essay (1500- 2000 words) to your tutor at the class in Week 8. This should compare the treatment, in at least three historical studies, of any approved theme, event or episode covered by the course.
You can pick any topic covered in the course and you can use any three secondary sources (book/book chapter/journal article). These secondary sources can be ones discussed in tutorials.
For example: (1) Marriage in post-Famine Ireland; (2) the Devotional Revolution; (3)the development of primary school education in nineteenth century Ireland; (4) Emigration in the 1950s; (5) the operation of the Poor Law.
The aim of this exercise is to get you to compare how different historians have approached the topic – what sources have they used? How have they used them? What approach have they taken? What arguments do they make? What contribution does this work make? Are there issues of bias and omission?
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Irish contemporary history class review
Description
(1) Review Essay
In order to secure credit for the course, you are required to submit a review essay (1500- 2000 words) to your tutor at the class in Week 8. This should compare the treatment, in at least three historical studies, of any approved theme, event or episode covered by the course.
You can pick any topic covered in the course and you can use any three secondary sources (book/book chapter/journal article). These secondary sources can be ones discussed in tutorials.
For example: (1) Marriage in post-Famine Ireland; (2) the Devotional Revolution; (3)the development of primary school education in nineteenth century Ireland; (4) Emigration in the 1950s; (5) the operation of the Poor Law.
The aim of this exercise is to get you to compare how different historians have approached the topic – what sources have they used? How have they used them? What approach have they taken? What arguments do they make? What contribution does this work make? Are there issues of bias and omission?