NB: these are the special topics for both history curriculums that have not received any coverage in the magazine:
Leaving Certificate Curriculum: Document Case Studies
EARLY MODERN IRELAND
Topic 1: Reform and Reformation in Tudor Ireland, 1494-1558:
Women and marriage under Gaelic law
Topic 2: Rebellion and conquest in Elizabethan Ireland, 1558-1603:
Meiler Magrath’s clerical career: n/a
Topic 3: Kingdom v. colony: the struggle for mastery in Ireland, 1603-1660:
The trial of Strafford
Topic 4: Establishing a colonial ascendancy, 1660-1715:
The parliament of 1689
The Jacobite Poets
Topic 5: Colony vs. kingdom: tensions in mid-18th century Ireland, 1715-1770:
The trial of Fr. Sheehy
LATER MODERN IRELAND
Topic 1: Ireland and the Union, 1815-1870:
The Synod of Thurles and the Romanisation of the Catholic Church
Topic 5: Politics and society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993:
The Coleraine University controversy
The Apprentice Boys of Derry
Topic 6: Government, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-1989:
The First Programme for Economic Expansion, 1958-1963
Impact of the EEC on fisheries
EARLY MODERN EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD
Topic 1: Europe from Renaissance to Reformation, 1492-1567:
The divorse of Henry VII and Catherine of Aragon
Seville, the port of the New World
Calvin’s Geneva
Topic 2: Religion and power: politics in the later 16th century, 1567-1609:
The decline of the port of Antwerp
The Jesuit mission in Chine
Topic 3: The eclipse of Old Europe, 1609-1660:
The revolt of the Catalans
The Dutch empire in Asia
Topic 4: Europe in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715:
The Streltsy
The (English) East India Company
The court of Versaille
Topic 5: Establishing empires, 1715-1775:
The Boston Tea Party, 1773
The Encyclopédie
Topic 6: Empires in revolution, 1775-1815:
The Committee of Public Safety
The growth of Manchester
The Civil Consitution of the Clergy
LATER MODERN EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD
Topic 1: Nationalism and state formation in Europe, 1815-1871:
The 1848 Revolution in Germany
Robert Owen’s model village at New Lanark
Haussman’s Paris
Topic 2: Nation states and international tensions, 1871-1920:
The naval policy of Wilhelm II
Women in the workforce during World War 1
The invention and early history of the motor car
Topic 3: Dictatorship and democracy in Europe, 1920-1945:
The Jarrow March, October 1936
Topic 4: Division and realignment in Europe, 1945-1992:
The Oil Crisis, 1973
The Second Vatican Council
Topic 5: European retreat from empire and the aftermath, 1945-1990:
The secession of Katanga, 1960-1965
Race relations in France in the 1980s
Topic 6: The United States and the World, 1945-1989:
The Moon landing, 1969
GCE: History (HI 1993-2009)
A2 1: Change over time:
Option 4: Unionism and nationalism in Ireland, 1800-1900:
Nationalism: Cultural perspective
Unionism 1800-1900
A2 2: Historical investigation and interpretation:
Option 3: Ireland, 1775-1800:
The rise and fall of the Volunteers, 1775-1789
The economic successes, 1782-1789
GCSE: History
3.1: Studies in depth:
Option 5: Changing relationships: Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland, 1965-1985:
Northern Ireland in the 1960s and its relations with the Republic of Ireland