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Module THE EVOLUTION OF IRISH LANDED ESTATES AND COUNTRY HOUSES

Module code: HY643
Credits: 10
Semester: 2
Department: HISTORY
International: Yes
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This course seeks to explain how Irish landed estates first evolved and then declined from the sixteenth century to the winding up of the Irish Land Commission towards the end of the twentieth century. It will look at the impact of plantations, the Great Famine of 1845-51, the Land Wars from the late 1870s and the working of the Land Commission in independent Ireland. It will examine relationships between landlords and tenants and how these changed at different times with subsequent repercussions for the country houses that lay at the centre of the great estates. This course will also introduce students to the evolution of Irish demesne landscapes, using Carton and Castletown as case studies. Who shaped these demesnes and how were they used as spaces? Were they the result of the manipulation of English or continental trends and what was distinctly Irish about them? Students will also be introduced to the vast array of sources which are available for the study of rural landscapes and the methodologies which can be used for exploring their evolution.

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