JC History

Tell primary from secondary sources and judge their reliability, bias and usefulness.

How historians and archaeologists investigate the past and date their findings.

Use BC/AD, centuries, decades and timelines accurately.

Connect your own place, family or community to wider Irish and world history (LO 2.11; CBA 1).

Monasteries, saints, manuscripts and the coming of the Vikings.

How the Normans arrived and changed Irish towns, land and society.

How land was confiscated and settled by colonists, and the long-term impact, especially in Ulster.

The United Irishmen, the 1798 Rebellion, the Act of Union and Catholic Emancipation.

Causes, course and consequences of the Great Famine, 1845–1852.

Home Rule crisis, Lockout, Easter Rising, War of Independence, Treaty and Civil War.

Civil rights, conflict and the peace process from the 1960s to 1998.

Changes in work, education, technology, women's lives and Ireland's place in Europe.

How leaders such as Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell used peaceful, political methods to win change (LO 2.2).

How the lives, rights and opportunities of women in Ireland changed during the 1900s (LO 2.9).

How movements like the GAA and the Gaelic League shaped Irish life and identity (LO 2.10).

Economic growth, television, free education and change on the island of Ireland in the 1960s (LO 2.12).

From monks and merchants to EEC membership in 1973 and life in the European Union (LO 2.13).

Daily life, government and legacy of an ancient civilisation.

Feudalism, castles, towns, the Church and the Black Death.

Changes in art, science and printing that began in Italy.

Voyages of discovery and their consequences for the Americas, Africa and Asia.

Religious change in 16th-century Europe and its consequences.

The American and French revolutions and the ideas behind them.

How factories, steam power and railways transformed life.

Causes, trench warfare and the results of the Great War.

How Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin gained and kept power.

Key events of WWII, the Holocaust and Ireland's neutrality.

The rivalry between the USA and the USSR from 1945 to 1991.

How inventions from printing to computers changed the way people lived (LO 3.11).

How organisations such as the United Nations and the European Union promote peace, justice and human rights (LO 3.12).

Civil rights, the space race, protest and the Cold War in the 1960s (LO 3.13).

Tracing change and continuity across eras in one theme of everyday life, such as health and medicine (LO 3.14).