History · Boston College
Fulfills US History requirement for History Majors.This course will focus on the history of the Irish Diaspora to America from the beginning of the colonial period to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 and the end of the Irish Civil War the following year.The course will begin with consideration of English intervention in Ireland during the Tudor and Stuart periods, with special emphasis on how colonization and conquest in Ireland set templates for the English colonization of what became the original thirteen United States. Attention will then shift to the first wave of Ulster migrat
