

Summer School
STORIES OF IRELAND: THIS IS NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - 6 AUGUST
Date: Wednesday, 6th August
Tutor: Maggie Knight BA Fine Art, MA History of Art, PhD History of Art, founded the Adult Education section at the V&A Museum. She ran her own classes in art and cultural history in London and is now teaching for The Arts Society and leading tours to Europe and America.
Description: Attempts to bring Ireland under the English Crown came to nothing until the Tudor conquests of the 16th century followed by wars of religion and the sponsored immigration of British Protestants to the north. In 1801, the Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland with the Kingdom of Great Britain, by this time the Catholic south was desperately poor, barely touched by the industrial revolution and losing population to famines and mass migration.
The idea of Irish culture had become almost laughable, and the Irish people were regularly depicted as illiterate peasants. Rebellions were inevitable and the following century was punctuated by a series of military confrontations culminating in the Easter Rising of 1916. With the unrest came a growing consciousness of Irish identity, a revival of the Irish language and an astonishing flowering of the visual arts, literature and drama.
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