Sumários

Irish Literary Revival and identity debates (19th-20th cent.).

7 Outubro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

2.1. Representations of the Irish: Punch cartoons and the dehumanisation of colonised populations.

2.2. Irish ballads and feminine representations of Ireland: Roisin Dubh, Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan e Shan Van Vocht.


Lecture by guest speaker.

30 Setembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Lecture by Professor Filomena Louro (Univ. Minho): Crossing Borders, Retrieving Memories: The History of the Land Border between Ireland and the United Kingdom


Relations between Ireland and England (17th-18th cent.).

28 Setembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1.1. Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal", 1729: satire and political criticism.

1.2. Famines in Ireland.


Anglo-Irish relations: geo-political and religious contexts.

23 Setembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1.1. Protestant Reformation and its impact on Anglo-Irish relations;

1.2. Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, 1663.


Further reference on:

- Protestant Reformation in Europe:
History 101: The Protestant Reformation | National Geographic - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATyzSAjC1w


- English Reformation & Plantations in Ireland:
Plantations in Ireland - Timelines.tv History of Britain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP7yuZyv0gs


- Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, 1596
- The Munster Famine (1581-82)

John Dorney, “War and Famine in Ireland (1580-1700)”, The Irish Story, 3 Jan. 2012 - https://www.theirishstory.com/2012/01/03/war-and-famine-in-ireland-1580-1700/#.YUier55Kgkg

Robert Viking O’Brien, “Cannibalism in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Ireland, and the Americas,” in Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity, ed. Kristen Guest, Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2001, 35-56. https://books.google.pt/books?id=Edmc6TgDN_0C&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=The+Munster+Famine+(1581-82)&source=bl&ots=YtCBtKcTGu&sig=ACfU3U0zH-uovPcJjA6QDZ_fZ3PwGYVHdA&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjktPiEzY3zAhXYAWMBHX_8DmAQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=The%20Munster%20Famine%20(1581-82)&f=false

Centering Spenser – A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle - A View of the Present State of Ireland:  Summary, Analysis and Questions - http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/teaching-View.html



Anglo-Irish relations: geo-political and religious contexts.

21 Setembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Overview of Irish history: screening of A Short History of Ireland, documentary based on the eponymous work by Richard Killeen: the Great Famine and beyond.

2. Anglo-Irish relations: geo-political and religious contexts:

2.1. Early representations of Ireland by British visitors (12th-17th centuries): Giraldus Cambrensis, The Topography of Ireland, 1187.