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LEAVING CERTIFICATE HISTORY: LATER MODERN COURSE
Contents:
Section 1: Answering Document-based Questions
Section 1: Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 – 89. Case Study: The Impact of RTÉ, 1962 – 72
Section 1: Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 – 89. Case Study: The Impact of the EEC on Irish Fisheries
Section 1: Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 – 89. Document-based Question 4, sample answer: What Impact did the establishment of RTÉ have on the lives of Irish people?
Sections 2 and 3: Essay Writing
Essay Skills
Section 2: Irish History
Topic 1: Ireland and the Union, 1815 – 1870. What were the responses of Charles Trevelyan and/or Asenath Nicholson to Famine in Ireland? Topic 1: Ireland and the Union, 1815 – 1870. What were the aims of Daniel O’Connell and to what extent did he achieve them?
Topic 2: Movements for political and social reform. Sample Essay 2.0: What did one or more of the following contribute to cultural revival during the period 1870- 1914: the GAA; the Gaelic League; the Anglo-Irish Literary Revival? (2012)
Topic 3: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition. Sample Essay: What was the significance of the Eucharistic Congress, 1932?
Topic 5: Politics and society in Northern Ireland. Sample Essay: What was the contribution of the Apprentice Boys of Derry to the celebration of religious and cultural identity among that city’s unionist minority? (2006)
Section 3: Europe and the Wider World
Topic 3: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe. Sample Essay: How effective were Stalin’s moves for change during his time as leader of Russia?
Topic 3: Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe. Sample Essay: How did dictators use propaganda and/or terror to maintain their power?
Topic 6: The United States and the world. Sample Essay: What were the strengths and weaknesses of Lyndon Johnson as a political leader? (2014) Topic 6: The United States and the world. Sample Essay: What was the importance of one or more of the following: McCarthyism; the Moon Landing, 1969; developments in information technology? (2006)
Topic 6: The United States and the world. Sample Essay: What were the main developments in race relations in the US, 1945 – 1968?
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