IRST 2540

Students will study the conflict in the North of Ireland (1968-1998) using an array of primary and secondary sources including reportage, cinema, television, and poetry. As well as covering some of the historical and ideological drivers of the conflict, students will explore how it was shaped by class, nationality, and gender. Maintaining a strict focus on the relationship between the past and present, we analyze the shortcomings of the neoliberal peace that supplanted a thirty year insurgency.