BTAN32006BA05 From the Outhouse of the Empire to the Celtic Tiger and Beyond: Transformations of a Sense of Irishness Autumn Semester, 2018

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1 BTAN32006BA05 From the Outhouse of the Empire to the Celtic Tiger and Beyond: Transformations of a Sense of Irishness Autumn Semester, 2018 Seminar, 2hrs, graded Instructor: Gula Marianna 3rd year BA, required-optional Office: 108 Tue , Rm 54 Office hours: Mon Tue address: mariannagula@gmail.com Course Description Ireland had come a long way from a colonial past to becoming a booming country of the European Union at the end of the 20 th century earning the title Celtic Tiger. With the onset of the global economic recession in 2008 the Irish success story came to a halt, was followed by a period of crisis, from which, in the past four years, the country seems to have been successfully recovering. The aim of this course is to map the social and cultural transformations that accelerated during the Celtic Tiger period. We will inquire especially into how crucial cultural markers of Irishness have changed in the past three decades, always keeping an eye on the historical dimension of the issues discussed. Our topics will include colonial and self-representations of the Irish, the Irish language and Irish-English, folklore/the myth of the West, music, religion, emigration/immigration, the Troubles and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland and the cultural relations between Ireland and Hungary. Our discussions will also be supported and/or prompted by ample audio-visual material: music, films, sitcoms (in English as well as in Irish with English subtitles), advertisements and documentaries. Requirements 1. The class format: will mainly be discussion, so students are expected to read all the assigned articles and watch the assigned visual material. The reading assignment for most classes consists of an article that highlights the aspect of Irish culture in question in its historical development and another one that focuses on the present. Orientation in the reading material will be aided by a list of questions pertaining to aspects to be discussed in class. Check out these questions before reading the articles and try to identify the answers to at least three of them while reading the articles. NB! If a student comes to class without finding an answer to any of the questions, despite the fact that (s)he is present, it will count as an absence. 2. Presentation: minutes in length, preferably, but not necessarily a power point presentation. Students are requested to do library and/or on-line research and explore an aspect of the topic to be discussed at class. Read the assigned material and the related questions first, they may give you ideas in what direction to set out. 3. Home essay or End term test: at the end of the course students can choose between two alternatives: they can either write an end-term test (a series of mini-essays on the topics discussed) or submit an essay of about 2000 words, written on the basis of their presentations or cultural representations related to the topic within which they prepared their presentation. It should be written in the form of a research paper, but the use of non-scholarly, on-line material is also allowed. The deadline to submit the home essay is 6 December. 5. Class attendance: more than three absences will result in failing the entire course.

2 NB! Out of all the course components, only one re-sit will be granted; in case you fail in more than one component, the course is a failure. Grading The final grade will be based on Schedule: Week 1 (11 Sept) Orientation in-class participation 15% presentation 30% home essay/end-term test 55% Week 2 (18 Sept) The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of the Celtic Tiger & Culture in the Celtic Tiger: P. Kirby, L. Gibbons and M. Cronin, Introduction: The Reinvention of Ireland: A New Perspective. Reinventing Ireland F. O Toole, Foreword & Eamon Maher Introduction to Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland Europe s Shining Light (The Economist May 1997) Visual: watch The Tiger s Tail (dir. John Boorman 2007 & the 1 st episode of the 2 nd season of Moone Boy (2014 sitcom) at home Recommended: Traders (dir. R. Moriarty, P. Murphy 2015) Week 3 (25 Sept) Colonial vs Celtic Tiger Representations of the Irish: L. Perry Curtis, Jr., The Importance of Being Paddy. Anglo-Saxons and Celts V. Cheng, White Negroes. Joyce, Race, and Empire Visual: watch Goldfish Memory (dir. Elisabeth Gill 2003) & the 1 st episode of the 1 st season of Black Books (2000 sitcom) at home Recommended: excerpt from Matthew Arnold s On the Study of Celtic Literature; all of Black Books ( sitcom); IT Crowd ( sitcom) Week 4 (2 Oct) The Irish Language and Irish-English: G. Ó Tuathaigh, Language, Ideology and National Identity. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture S. Coleman, The Centralised Government of Liquidity: Community, Language and Culture under the Celtic Tiger. The End of Irish History? Visual: watch Yu Ming is ainm dom (short film) and the 1 st episode of An Crisis (2010 sitcom in Irish with English subtitles) at home Recommended: G. Denvir, The Linguistic Implications of Mass Tourism in Gaeltacht Areas. New Hibernia Review; P. Ó Riagáin, The Linguistic Challenge of Multicultural Ireland: Managing Language Diversity in Irish Schools. and V. Ní Dhrisceoil, The Irish Language in Twenty-First-Century Ireland: Exploring Legislative and Policy Protections North and South. Race and Immigration in the New Ireland Week 5 (9 Oct) Irish Folklore & the Myth of the West: L. Gibbons, Synge, Country and Western: The Myth of the West in Irish and American Culture. Transformations in Irish Culture V. Cheng, Authenticity and Identity: Catching the Irish Spirit. Semicolonial Joyce

3 Visual: watch the 4 th episode of An Crisis at home & check out on YouTube Tullamore and Jameson Irish whiskey advertisements (esp. Beyond the Obvious ad campaign) at home Recommended: C. Kuhling and K. Keohane, excerpt from Consumption: Guinness, Ballygowan and Riverdance: The Globalisation of Irish Identity (pp 76-85). Cosmopolitan Ireland. Visual: Silence (dir. Pat Collins 2012); The Man of Aran (dir. Robert Flaherty 1934); J. M. Synge, The Aran Islands; Flann O Brien, An Béal Bocht (The Poor Mouth). Week 6 (16 Oct) Irish Music and Dance: L. Ó Laoire, Irish Music. The Cambridge Companion from K. Whelan, The Cultural Effects of the Famine. The Cambridge Companion T. Wilson & H. Donnan, Troupes and Tropes in Dancing Ireland. The Anthropology of Ireland visual: watch the 5 th episode of An Crisis & Riverdance at home Recommended: C. Kuhling and K. Keohane, excerpt from Consumption: Guinness, Ballygowan and Riverdance: The Globalisation of Irish Identity (pp ). Cosmopolitan Ireland. The River of Sound (1995 BBC documentary, Micheál Ó Suilleabháin, available on YouTube) & Folk Hibernia (2006 BBC documentary about the Irish folk music revival in the 1960s); The Chieftains: Water from the Well (available on YouTube); Aisling Gheal (dir. Dónal Ó Céilleachair 2012) Week 7 (23 Oct) NATIONAL HOLIDAY (No class) Week 8 (30 Oct) CONSULTATION WEEK (No class) Week 9 (6 Nov) Religion: T. Inglis, Religion, Identity, State and Society. The Cambridge Companion R. Foster, How the Catholics Became Protestants. Luck and the Irish Recommended: L. Pilkington, Religion and the Celtic Tiger: The Cultural Legacies of Anti-Catholicism in Ireland. Reinventing Ireland Visual: watch 1 st episode of Father Ted (sitcom 1995) & The Frontline (7 December 2009: talk show about current affairs in the Republic of Ireland targeting religion) Recommended: Calvary (dir. M. J. McDonagh 2014), Quirke (2014 TV series, esp. 1 st episode); Philomena (dir. S. Frears 2013); Hush-A-Bye Baby (dir. Margot Harkin 1990); Faith in Crisis (2010 RTE talk show) Week 10 (13 Nov) Emigration/immigration: M. J. Hickman, Migration and Diaspora. The Cambridge Companion Bryan Fanning, Immigration, the Celtic Tiger and the Economic Crisis. Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis (Irish Studies Review 2016) Chronology and J. V. Ulin, Introduction: Ireland s New Strangers. Race and Immigration in the New Ireland O Bama in search of the lost apostrophe: Check out on YouTube Barak Obama s speech delivered during his visit to Ireland in May Visual: Watch the 5 th episode of the 2 nd season of Moone Boy (2014 sitcom) Recommended: Mary Robinson, Immigration in Ireland: A Keynote Address by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ; R. McVeigh, Racism in the Six Counties Race and Immigration in the New Ireland

4 Roddy Doyle, The Deportees (2007); Black day at Blackrock (dir. Gerry Stembridge 2001); Adam and Paul (dir. Leonard Abrahamson 2004); The Nephew (dir. Eugene Brady 1998), Brooklyn (dir. John Crowley 2015) Week 11 (20 Nov) Northern Ireland: The Troubles Laura Pelaschiar, The Wounds of History: A Short Sketch of Northern Irish History. Writing the North Graham Dawson, Introduction: political transition, peace-making and the past Making Peace with the Past? (pp 1-10) Richard Kearney, Myths of Motherland. Postnationalist Ireland visual: Watch Understanding Northern Ireland (1991 BBC documentary) & Cranberries: Zombie music video at home Recommended: David McKittrick and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of Northern Ireland Conflict (2012); Liam O Dowd, Republicanism, Nationalism and Unionism: Changing Contexts, Cultures and Ideologies. The Cambridge Companion Week 12 (27 Nov) Northern Ireland: The Peace Process Graham Dawson, Introduction: political transition, peace-making and the past Making Peace with the Past? (pp 17-26) Paul Arthur, Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation. The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland Visual: watch The Billion Pound Party (2017 BBC documentary, available on You Tube); Brexit stirs up old divides (2017, PBS News Hour, available on You Tube); and Patrick Stewart s sketch What has the ECHR ever done for us? (2016) Recommended: David McKittrick and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of Northern Ireland Conflict (2012); see the films representing The Troubles in the Introduction to Irish Studies course Week 13 (4 Dec) Ireland and Hungary: Mary McAleese s official address at the Hungarian Academy (2000) from Arthur Griffith, The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland. Bertha Csilla & Donald E. Morse. Introduction. A Small Nation s Contribution to the World Week 14 (11 Dec) End-term paper Evaluation Reference: Attridge, Derek and Marjorie Howes, eds. Semicolonial Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Bertha, Csilla, Donald E. Morse, István Pálffy, eds. A Small Nation s Contribution to the World: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature and Language. Debrecen: Lajos Kossuth U, Cheng, Vincent J. Joyce, Race, and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Cleary, Joe, and Claire Connolly, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Coulter, Colin and Steve Coleman, eds. The End of Irish History?: Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger. Manchester: Manchester UP, Curtis, L. Perry Jr. Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England. Bridgeport, Connecticut: U of Bridgeport, 1968.

5 Dawson, Graham. Making Peace with the Past?: Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, Denvir, Gearoid. The Linguistic Implications of Mass Tourism in Gaeltacht Areas. New Hibernia Review 6.3 Autumn (2002): Elliott, Marianne, ed. The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland: Peace Lectures from the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, Foster, R. F. Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from Oxford: Oxford UP, Gibbons, Luke. Transformations in Irish Culture. Indiana: Notre Dame P, Kearney, Richard. Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy. London: Routledge, Kirby, Peadar, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin, eds. Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society ad the Global Economy. London: Pluto, Kuhling, Carmen and Kieran Keohane. Cosmopolitan Ireland: Globalisation and Quality of Life. London& Dublin: Pluto, 2007 Maher, Eamon, ed. Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland. Oxford. Peter Land, McKittrick, David and David McVea. Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of Northern Ireland Conflict London: Penguin, Pelaschiar, Laura. Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland. Trieste: Parnaso, Ulin, Julieann Veronica, Heather Edwards and Sean O Brian, eds. Race and Immigration in the New Ireland. Notre Dame, Indiana: U of Notre Dame P, Wilson, Thomas M. and Hastings Donnan. The Anthropology of Ireland. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006.