LEAVING CERTIFICATE HISTORY – LATER MODERN IRELAND HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVELS
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The Making of Ireland is written in a clear factual style with up-to-date historical commentary. This beautifully illustrated textbook features a wide variety of relevant historical imagery and presents key statistics in clear, useful graphs and charts.
The Making of Ireland provides in-depth coverage of and case studies from the four most popular Later Modern Ireland topics. Students must study two of these: • Topic 2: Movements for Political and Social Reform, 1870–1914 • Topic 3: The Pursuit of Sovereignty and the Impact of Partition, 1912–1949 • Topic 5: Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949–1993 • Topic 6: Government, Economy and Society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949–1989 [Prescribed topic for 2018/19]
Key features of The Making of Ireland: • Learning intentions stated at the beginning of each chapter • Clearly signposted Key Concepts • Exam-focused profiles of Key Personalities • Chapter Summaries • End-of-chapter revision-style questions • End-of-chapter past and sample exam paper questions for Ordinary Level and Higher Level • Topic 6 includes a wide variety of relevant documents for the documents-based question. Practice questions are organised under exam-relevant headings such as Comprehension, Comparison, Criticism and Contextualisation.
• Detailed Exam section offers: – Advice for both Higher and Ordinary Level students – Explanation of the marking scheme – Research Study Report guidelines – Clear guidance on answering the documents-based questions – A full sample essay with commentary
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