Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... iv Junior Cycle History checklist ......................................................................................................................................... 1 Three-Year Reflection Timeline ........................................................................................................................................ 2 01 How do Historians and Archaeologists Find Out about the Past? ......................................................................... 4 02 Life in Ancient Rome ............................................................................................................................................. 13 03 Early Christian Ireland .......................................................................................................................................... 23 04 Exploring Life and Death in Medieval Times ........................................................................................................ 34 05 How is the Renaissance Historically Significant? ................................................................................................ 45 06 Evaluating the Impact of Conquest and Colonisation ........................................................................................ 56 07 Martin Luther and the Reformation – The Historical Importance of Religion .................................................... 65 08 The Plantation of Ulster and the Growth of Towns .............................................................................................. 74 09 The American Revolution ..................................................................................................................................... 83 10 Exploring the 1798 Rebellion ................................................................................................................................ 91 11 Industrial Society in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ....................................................................... 101 12 Investigating the Causes, Course and Consequences of the Great Famine ..................................................... 109 13 The Parliamentary Tradition in Irish Politics – Daniel OʼConnell and C. S. Parnell .......................................... 118 14 The Impact of the GAA on Irish Life .................................................................................................................... 124 15 The Rise and Impact of Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland, 1911–23 ......................................................... 131 16 Life in Nazi Germany ........................................................................................................................................... 140 17 Life in Soviet Russia ............................................................................................................................................ 148 18 The Drift to War – The Causes of World War II .................................................................................................... 155 19 World War II, 1939–45 ......................................................................................................................................... 165 20 The Holocaust ..................................................................................................................................................... 176 21 The Impact of World War II on Ireland, North and South .................................................................................. 185 22 The Cold War ....................................................................................................................................................... 194 23 The Changing Experience of Women in Twentieth-Century Ireland ................................................................ 203 24 The 1960s: An Important Decade in World History ........................................................................................... 211 25 The 1960s: An Important Decade in Irish History .............................................................................................. 223 26 The Troubles in Northern Ireland ....................................................................................................................... 231 27 The European Union and Ireland’s Links with Europe ...................................................................................... 239 Technology and Historical Change ............................................................................................................................. 247 Health and Medicine ................................................................................................................................................... 255 Crime and Punishment ............................................................................................................................................... 262
