History

hada

He's going to ask combined questions this year, as it's the last year of the old history course.

i.e. Threats both internal/external to ireland 22-45.
militant nationalism 1912-1921
Irish Economy 32-45 (or he could ask 22-66)
The Emergency both South and North Of Ireland
The issues that affected irish people 1921-22
Contrast 50's and 60's In Ireland
Relationship of Muss/Hit
Church State Relations In Ger and France

Oh and (I know most schools don't do it but..) The Spainish Civil War is tipped as well.

Besides that, learn all the must haves:
home rule 1875-1918
land q.
sinn féin
interparty govs (bot 48-51 and 54-57)
C N G Gov 22-32
Franco-Prussian War
3rd French Republic
Eastern Question
Tsarist Russia
Muss, Hitler, Stalin

randomfella

GDM wrote:

just like the listening portion of the irish exam if you listen to it enough you may have a better chance of remembering it.

randomfella

hada wrote:

He's going to ask combined questions this year, as it's the last year of the old history course.

who is this man?

U named half the course but i'd agree with most of them.

vote4pedro

Here's what I've narrowed it down to,
Section A: Unionism (Carson); Home Rule 1900-1918 (Redmond); Sinn Fein (Griffith)

Section B: Inter Party Governments; Ireland during war/neutrality; A general question on Fianna Fail in power; Economic Policies (probably of I-P G and FF).

Section C: French 3rd Republic; Eastern Question; Causes of WW1; Tsarist Russia.

Section Mussolini (intenal & external); Stalin (internal & external); Hitler (rise to power/consolidation of power or internal policies); Weimar Republic; Steps to Euro Unity.

I wouldn't narrow it down much less than that, and would know at least 4 for each section. By far the worst moment of the LC is the couple of hours before history, praying you'll be covered in each section. Trust me, it really is horrible so make sure you cover yourself.

segadreamcast

vote4pedro wrote:

Here's what I've narrowed it down to,
Section A: Unionism (Carson); Home Rule 1900-1918 (Redmond); Sinn Fein (Griffith)

Section B: Inter Party Governments; Ireland during war/neutrality; A general question on Fianna Fail in power; Economic Policies (probably of I-P G and FF).

Section C: French 3rd Republic; Eastern Question; Causes of WW1; Tsarist Russia.

Section Mussolini (intenal & external); Stalin (internal & external); Hitler (rise to power/consolidation of power or internal policies); Weimar Republic; Steps to Euro Unity.

I wouldn't narrow it down much less than that, and would know at least 4 for each section. By far the worst moment of the LC is the couple of hours before history, praying you'll be covered in each section. Trust me, it really is horrible so make sure you cover yourself.

That nearly matches my line-up essay for essay.

exiztone

Does nobody think constructive unionism is coming up for section A? :eek:

Edit: Would anyone have an essay on Davitt they could share? I won't copy it word for word, but I'd like to see the layout and approach taken. Thanks

randomfella

YES i think constructive unionism will come up.

I don't have an essay on davitt. I woudn't anybody would be worried about u copying it word for word anyway.

hada

randomfella wrote:

who is this man?

U named half the course but i'd agree with most of them.

The guy that sets the paper.


Chances are you will have to combine one or two essays into one question in the actual exam, therefore you best have all corners covered

I.e. have learnt 37 or so essays (that constitutes about 5-11 different topics a section)

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Call Me Jimmy

some people seem to think sinn fein is a big one this year, the arthur griffith one coz its 100 years this year

Only Human

I have this gem of a little history book which was less than €10. It covers the average essay in two pages. It's brilliant if used with another history book. It's called "Concise Leaving Cert History" by Thomas Kingston. It's published by Solas Publications.

Call Me Jimmy

eh you people who think constructive unionism will come up, eh it came up last year, 2004 Q : THE CONSERVATIVES AND IRELAND - How successful were the irish policies of Conservative governments during the period 1886- 1906. Is that not the same question? If I'm not mistaken ( i dont know much history) then they wouldnt ask the same question again, I would put my money on unionist oppostion to home rule. again im not very good at history so dont slate me if im wrong

Only Human

Call Me Jimmy wrote:

eh you people who think constructive unionism will come up, eh it came up last year, 2004 Q : THE CONSERVATIVES AND IRELAND - How successful were the irish policies of Conservative governments during the period 1886- 1906. Is that not the same question? If I'm not mistaken ( i dont know much history) then they wouldnt ask the same question again, I would put my money on unionist oppostion to home rule. again im not very good at history so dont slate me if im wrong

Jesus, that post had me thinking. What if all of the essays I've predected will come up don't come up at all, like in my mock.

Call Me Jimmy

lol nobody is cutting it as tight as me though, i dont know if i'll know more than 8 essays (excluding research topic) can anyone confirm that the question i quoted is in fact the same as constructive unionism?

baby*cham*bell

a) davitt, cultural nationalism, NI
b)inter party govt's, lemass (one or the other nearly always comes up), NI
c)france(with a paragraph on Franco-Prussian war),bismarck,either eastern q or causese of ww1
d)stalin. hitler, mussolini (facism essay)
e)the ol' research topic "Claus Von Stauffenberg and the plot to kill hitler, july 20th 1944"

TIP: aim to write 10 or so a pargraphs, you can write 3 per page, they don't have to be that long, and aim to get 5/6 out of 10 in each, instead of 6-8 paragraphs (which is nigh on impossible), because its to hard to get 10 in each one. ahhhhhhhhhh the godsend that is Grinds. My grinds teacher is Peader o'ceallaigh, anyone have him, he teaches history+irish in a cbs on the southside

Cannibal Ox

Jesus, that post had me thinking. What if all of the essays I've predected will come up don't come up at all, like in my mock.

Don't think, just stick to what your doing. Maybe learn one or two extra if your really sh!tting it, but keep to what you've got and concentrate on getting them in your head.

Finch*

im only looking to pass history, dont need it for the points really (thank you arts in UCD =]) and so im taking big chances and only gonna do enough to get by,
section A: Davitt. little bit on Butt
section B: Irish neutrality. CnaG
section C: France. little bit on the Tsars
section mussolini. rise of hitler
section E: Georgy Zhukov

i know enought to bs my way through an essay if worst comes to blurst! but still -

PRAY FOR ME!

randomfella

section A anybody?

i've only got parnell learnt. Im debating learning all his possible essays or learning something else. Panicing a bit, any help would be much loved.

EDIT: panicing a lot. please list out everything in section A ur learning.

i've got parnell
sinn fein - success in 1918 election - hoping this doesn't come up in sec B.
i've heard ulster opposition to HR but i don't remember zilch on it. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh history is biggest gamble if paper doesn't come up right. Ok bak 2point. help wanted.

baby*cham*bell

randomfella wrote:

section A anybody?

i've only got parnell learnt. Im debating learning all his possible essays or learning something else. Panicing a bit, any help would be much loved.

EDIT: panicing a lot. please list out everything in section A ur learning.

i've got parnell
sinn fein - success in 1918 election - hoping this doesn't come up in sec B.
i've heard ulster opposition to HR but i don't remember zilch on it. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh history is biggest gamble if paper doesn't come up right. Ok bak 2point. help wanted.

well youre learninig enough
Parnell- last year, and far to much to learn. Davitt's tipped, and is easy.
Something on Northern Ireland comes up every year in A and B, unionist oppostion isn't the easiest there though.
what about just a butt and parnell essay, thats meant to come up also.

randomfella

baby*cham*bell wrote:

well youre learninig enough
Parnell- last year, and far to much to learn. Davitt's tipped, and is easy.
Something on Northern Ireland comes up every year in A and B, unionist oppostion isn't the easiest there though.
what about just a butt and parnell essay, thats meant to come up also.

i only have 2 essays sinn fein and parnell.
We never did N.I at all, not going to start now. How bout land question, bit dodgy?

randomfella

correct me if i'm wrong but
unionist opposition to hr...

2001
2000
1998
1997
1993

Looks like a good possibility

baby*cham*bell

i only did it in grinds, it isnt that bad, but probz best to leave it if you've never done it. they always ask NI though, it makes 'em look good!
Yeah, you can't really go wrong if you know all the land acts and the land league, i don't really know much about that q, alot of that comes up in the Davitt essay, which, once again, is tipped.
Would you consider doing Davitt?

chillywilly

what do people think is the most likely question on NI going to be?

do you think it will be in sec.a or b?

Macka

Yes Fry leaving everything to the last possible moment
Anywho
Section A:Butt,Davitt,Unionist opposition,Land league/war
Section B:Cumann na ngaedahl, Fianna Fail gov'ts all aspects of
Section C:France, Bismarck, Lenin, Tsarist Russia,
Section D:Stalin, Hitler in general, Mussolini, Fasicsm in general
Section E:The battle of Kursk

In this time of ridiculous amounts of history study I feel a quote from The Charge Of The Light Brigade sums up the situation quite nicely
"And into the Valley Of Death rode the six hundred"
May we all go down in a blaze of glory..

baby*cham*bell

Macka wrote:

In this time of ridiculous amounts of history study I feel a quote from The Charge Of The Light Brigade sums up the situation quite nicely
"And into the Valley Of Death rode the six hundred"
May we all go down in a blaze of glory..

quiet, my good man.

Macka

Yeah sorry about that I realised what a nerdy thing to say it was the second I posted it but anyway I'll be pissed off if I don't do well in history it's the only subject I like (and in the grand scale of things one of the few subjects that you learn something relevant in)

randomfella

i have loads of notes on unionist opp. to hr definetly going 2give it a brush over now. Maybe even davitt, just in case...

BraveheartGal

im freakin out
cant find any notes on uni to hr

is it likely?

Macka

Unionist opp. is piss easy as is Davitt it's just so boring to force yourself to learn. Of all the tips I've heard for that section it seems like it's gonna be unionist opp., Davitt or something to do with Sinn Fein(centenary). Although I've heard a horrible tip that the unionist Q could be just on the impact Carson and CRaig had on the unionist movement

randomfella

Macka wrote:

Yeah sorry about that I realised what a nerdy thing to say it was the second I posted it but anyway I'll be pissed off if I don't do well in history it's the only subject I like (and in the grand scale of things one of the few subjects that you learn something relevant in)

business surely has more relevance, or biology, geography???

Macka

I said it was one of the FEW subjects that has relevance. It did shape the world that you live in today which I believe definately puts it up there in terms of importance with any other subject