Joint Honours
The Joint Honours programme in history deals with various periods of Irish, European, American, and world history, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day.
In the first year of study students take a methodological module on 'Doing History' in each term; they also have a choice of several 10 ECTS modules on the Middle Ages in the first term and on the early modern period in the second. In the second year students take modules on the modern period. They have a choice of several pathways, and if they choose a History Major they also participate in a group project. As in the Junior Freshman, so in the senior Freshman year students learn through a mixture of classroom-based lectures and tutorials, as well as through independent learning, preparing for classes and written work in our excellent library facilities. Specifics of the module offerings can be seen on our Joint Honours Pathway chart.
In the third year, where there is a growing emphasis on seminar discussion, students choose a ‘List 2’ module each term from a wide list that may change from year to year. A sample list is below. They also take a two-semester sequence ‘Researching History’ that treats historiography and methodology.
For those who decide to take the final year in History, the programme includes a pair of List 1 modules, which together run all year and include an intensive discussion of primary sources. They also take two further List 2 modules and write a Dissertation based on a critical survey of original sources.
It is possible to spend all or part of the second or third year at one of our partner institutions in other countries. Results from these universities are recognised as part of your TCD degree - so spending time abroad does not lengthen the times needed to obtain a degree. For further details, see the links for Outgoing Erasmus Students and Outgoing Non-EU Exchange Students on the International section of our website.
List I, Year Long
Available to: all SS students except NMS; JS Single Honours Students
- HIU34023-4024 Revolutionary Britain I and II
- HIU34031-32 Lordship and Dynasty: The Gaelic World and the Shaping of Britain and Ireland c. 1296-c. 1513 I and II
- HIU34035-36 Empire and Environment in Russia from Peter I to Gorbachev I and II
- HIU34037-4038 Loaded with Dynamite: Ireland’s Global Revolution
- HIU34043-44 From Kingdom to Colony: Ireland in the Twelfth Century I and II
- HIU34045-46 Plantations and the Second Conquest of Latin America I and II
- HIU34047-48 Ireland in Rebellion I and II
- HIU34049-50 Ireland’s Colonial Legacies I and II
- HIU35051-52 Women and Children in the Early Modern Period I and II
- HIU34053-54 Medieval Marriage I and II
- HIU34055-56 French Revolution 1789-1799 I and II
- HIU34057-58 Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s I and II
- HIU34059-60 Power and People: State and Society in Ireland 1689-1783 I and II
- HIU34061-62 Empire Transformed: The Cromwellian Conquest and Settlement of Ireland 1641-1660 I and II
List II
Michaelmas term. Available to all JS students and to SS NMS students
- HIU34502: Popular Culture in Twentieth Century Ireland
- HIU34517: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
- HIU34518: Histories of Transylvania
- HIU34519: History and Fiction
- HIU34527 The Melting Pot: Race and Ethnicity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- HIU34528: Empire, Community and Culture
- HIU34531 German Empires at War
- HIU34533: Re-imagining Northern Ireland
- HIU34535: Lancaster versus York: Power, Conflict, and Identity in The Wars of the Roses
Michaelmas Term. Available to SS Single Honours and Majors taking 60 ECTS in History
- HIU34452: The Republic of Ireland and the Sixties
- HIU34534: Green against Green: The Irish Civil War 1922-23
- HIU34549: The American Civil War
- HIU34550: Colonial South Asia: Imperialism, Resistance, Identity, and Nationalism
- HIU34551: The Nobility in Early Modern Ireland
- HIU34555: Slavery in the First Millennium, c. AD 350 – c. AD 1050
Hilary Term
Available to all JS students and to SS NMS students
- HI4322: Race and Ethnicity in American Social Thought since 1940
- HIU34506: Creating a Colonial Capital: Dublin under the Anglo-Normans
- HIU34509: Atlantic Island: 18th century Ireland in Oceanic Perspective
- HIU34512: Global Crises: Environmental Disasters in World History
- HIU34515: Romance before Romanticism: Life, Love and Death in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
- HIU34522: Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail: Presidential Elections in American History, 1796-2016
- HIU34526: The Politics of Nature, Environmentalism in the Twentieth Century
- HIU34546: Renaissance Florence 1347-1527
- RUU44092: The History of Everyday Life in Communist Eastern Europe
Hilary Term
Single Honours and Majors taking 60 ECTS in History
- HIU34541 The Making of Brazil: An Environmental History
- HIU34553 From Tenochtitlan to Tokyo: A Global History of Dynastic Power in the Pre-Modern World
- HIU34554 Space and Identity in the Metropolis: Dublin c. 1880-1980
- HIU34556 20th Century Europe or International History module TBD
- HIU34557: Cultures of Violence in the Reformation
- WSU34030: Sex and the City: Twentieth-Century Urban Queer History