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Module WOMEN IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND

Module code: HY306
Credits: 5
Semester: 1
Quota: 28
Department: HISTORY
International: Yes
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This module will explore the various roles and experiences of women in eighteenth-century Ireland, using a range of primary and secondary source material. Students will be asked to consider the position of women in the Protestant Ascendancy and in the declining Catholic elite, as well as women among the emergent middle class and the ‘lower orders’. Particular attention given to women's legal status, religious identity, political engagement, economic activity, social and cultural engagement and expressions of status, work and property ownership.

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