This course studies the Long Eighteenth-Century (c.1688-1822) from the perspective of the Irish diaspora. How did diasporic Irish people both contribute to and challenge the major events in this Age of Reason and Revolution? Necessarily, this means our class will investigate the entangled histories of colonialism and capitalism, religion and rationalism, slavery and racism, nationalism and universalism, patriarchy and feminism, science and magic, empire and revolution. As we do, we will listen to the echoes of this distant past to ask ourselves why and how these histories matter today in our present moment.
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