History Projects

duffyheap

If you choose and exact person to do your project on its so much easier to write about. I did mine on Rosa Parks and it seemed to be a lot more manageable than what other people were doing in my class. There's a pretty good story behind Rosa Parks also ..very interesting.

duffyheap

Hey, I'm a repeat in my Leaving Cert year and I can decide on what subject to do in my case study. I was hoping to do it on one person, I did Rosa Parks last year which I loved doing. Has anybody got any ideas on who i could base it on this year?

spurious

duffyheap wrote: »

Hey, I'm a repeat in my Leaving Cert year and I can decide on what subject to do in my case study. I was hoping to do it on one person, I did Rosa Parks last year which I loved doing. Has anybody got any ideas on who i could base it on this year?

Since you already did Rosa Parks, how about Claudette Colvin who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat nine months earlier?

She's still alive, so you might even be able to get in touch with her.

Legion.

I'm doing mine on Bernard Montgomery, specifically on when he was Commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa during WW2.

JCHelp

My brother is doing the Assassination of Michael Collins i think

duffyheap

I've decided to do my research topic on Gavrilo Princip, One of the main people who (Started Off) world war I

maedhbh_mac

It's ok to do something outside of Ireland and even alright to be inspired by the old faithfuls- Nazis, JFK etc.- so long as you approach it from a non-typical angle, imo.

For example, a guy in my class wanted to do something about JFK so he wrote about the Illinois voter fraud controversy and got an A1.

If you're really struggling to think of something good, cast your net a little further and look at an earlier period- some of the medieval sources make for very interesting essay topics; a friend of mine did an analysis of the failure of Kerbogha's siege of Antioch during the first crusade, using primary sources from both sides- was really interesting.

MightyMandarin

I'm thinking of doing Simo Hayha this finnish sniper who killed about 700 soviets in the winter war the guy was a total hero and the russians spent ages trying to kill him and eventually he got shot in the jaw but survived and lived till he was 96. Really inspirational story but i might struggle to find some sources any thoughts?

spurious

MightyMandarin wrote: »

I'm thinking of doing Simo Hayha this finnish sniper who killed about 700 soviets in the winter war the guy was a total hero and the russians spent ages trying to kill him and eventually he got shot in the jaw but survived and lived till he was 96. Really inspirational story but i might struggle to find some sources any thoughts?

Good choice, but you might struggle to find sources in English. You could try emailing one of the Finnish university History departments for help.

In the same vein, it might be 'slightly' easier find sources on Ludmila Pavlichenko, if snipers are your thing.

SeanyboyQPR

Have had to change my title from the Propaganda one because my teacher said Goebbels is a key personality in the Democracy and Dictatorship course (which we don't study) and I might lose marks for lack of originality. My project is now on a local uprising at Bawnard House just down the road from me by the Kent family of Castlelyons on May 2nd 1916 , spent the day in the Library photocopying primary and secondary sources and actually like it a lot more than my original topic!

Troxck

Hi, so I'm only a TY but I'm going to do History for the Leaving Cert. I'm just wondering whether or not I should look into what topic I could do so I can get an idea for 5th year? This year we have covered some local History, but it has very little detail and would be hard to research. We have also done Tom Barry, which interested me due to the conflict which occurred about the of the Kilmichael Ambush which I could cover and look into in good detail.
Hopefully I'm not annoying you but what must you cover in this project? Where online could I look at what is required by the examiner? Thanks in advanced for any help you can offer.

AaronTipp

I was going to do Rationing in Ireland during The Emergency as my project but can't seem to find books on it. If anyone knows good books on this topic please tell me. Or if you know other good projects to do it on that would be much appreciated also. Thanks.

spurious

AaronTipp wrote: »

I was going to do Rationing in Ireland during The Emergency as my project but can't seem to find books on it. If anyone knows good books on this topic please tell me. Or if you know other good projects to do it on that would be much appreciated also. Thanks.

There are people still alive who remember rationing - talk to them. Look at newspapers from the time, Dáil debates etc..

user.name

Troxck wrote: »

Hi, so I'm only a TY but I'm going to do History for the Leaving Cert. I'm just wondering whether or not I should look into what topic I could do so I can get an idea for 5th year? This year we have covered some local History, but it has very little detail and would be hard to research. We have also done Tom Barry, which interested me due to the conflict which occurred about the of the Kilmichael Ambush which I could cover and look into in good detail.
Hopefully I'm not annoying you but what must you cover in this project? Where online could I look at what is required by the examiner? Thanks in advanced for any help you can offer.

enjoy ty now worry about the lc next year. But if you are looking for a project pick an era that interests you eg 1916 then narrow it down eg pearses role in the rising

mulciber

I chose a couple of months ago to do my history project on the Space Race and my history teacher told me that the topic would be fine to do.

Yesterday I found out from some of my friends from another school that do history and who have done the american part of the syllabus that the space race is included in the american part of the syllabus. So does that mean that I won't be able to do my project on the space race as it's already included in the syllabus?

I've already acquired my sources for my project and I have started a bit of work on it already. I would just like to know about this before I do any more work which I may have to scrap.

Any help would be appreciated.

crow2

Hi,can I do something on the early life of Adolf Hitler ? I do the US part of the course for LC so I wont answer anything related to Hitler in the LC exam

Thanks!

Canard

I think so. It's irrelevant what books you do since it's on the course anyway, but if it's his early life it should be fine.

crow2

Anybody else knows? This is urgent ¥

user.name

The hard thing about Hitler is that he is hugely overdone in the lc, so the examiner is looking for something that will stand out. Pick a certain area of his youth, like when he first joined the german workers party, his activitiy with them in the early 1920s, or even the beer hall putsch. Pick a topic you are really interested in. I am obsessed with ww2 and the nazis so I done the influnence of Rudolf Hoess in auschwitz. Auschwitz may be overly popular but I done it in a viewpoint that isn't popular so it would stand out. They want to narrow things down dramatically.

mossy95

I have 1726 words in my project will the examiners care its over the limit?

user.name

mossy95 wrote: »

I have 1726 words in my project will the examiners care its over the limit?

Its not too bad, but I'd read through it maybe see if there is anything you can cut out thats small

AG2R

could just do the work yourself

silverice

LOL I've already got a Geo and Engineering project to do. Besides, I have one but the teacher keeps giving me D2s and D1s on my drafts with no feedback at all. Really regret doing Hist but oh well.

spurious

silverice wrote: »

Hey guys, new to this.

Have a question. My brother bought his LC Hist project off a guy last year in our neighbourhood. He's at Trinners studying Hist and he has formatted loads of his essays and changed them into LC projects inclusive of outline plan, evaluation etc. I've asked him and he said he'd give me one for €30. Not bad at all. Chances of being caught? Nothing happened my bro anyway...

Chances of being caught? Oh I dunno...

You publicly state your intentions and rat your brother out too (good one).
SEC contact boards again and look for your IP.

Priceless.

Danny180.

Guys does anyone know what the deadline is for the special topic project...left mine till last week (bit silly) ?

user.name

The official one doesnt have to be in until April but sometimes schools set deadlines in advance like mine is at the end of march

spurious

April 26th.

Danny180.

And I presume the reason schools forward the deadline is so that they have time to be posted?

Police Tape Chalk Line

Just wondering, what are you doing for your project?? And have you much done/left to do?

Danny180.

Police Tape Chalk Line wrote: »

Just wondering, what are you doing for your project?? And have you much done/left to do?

I'm doing "Aidan McCarthy and the treatment of POW's during WW2". Have a book called "a doctor's war" based on him.Have the outline plan done have 2 websites and reading the book and underlining points.then when finished the book have to evaluate the sources and write my essay!

Aeternum

I'm doing mine on the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Narrowed it down mainly to how Tsar Nicholas II contributed to his and his family's executions. I found it really interesting, found some brilliant books by Robert K. Massie on the family. Only about half way through but I did that it about 2 hours, I'll finish it over the mid-term.

MrCraigButler

im doing mine on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics , easy enough , just talk about the black September terrorist organisation and just a timeline of the events .. happy i choose it

Police Tape Chalk Line

Aeternum wrote: »

I'm doing mine on the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Narrowed it down mainly to how Tsar Nicholas II contributed to his and his family's executions. I found it really interesting, found some brilliant books by Robert K. Massie on the family. Only about half way through but I did that it about 2 hours, I'll finish it over the mid-term.

That sounds really interesting! Mines on Wernher von Braun and his involvement in technological developments during war and peace times. I'm on my 2nd draft of the extended essay, and I have a quick outline plan done. I'm a little worried about my sources though, I have only one book, and the rest are online resoures..

Aeternum

Police Tape Chalk Line wrote: »

That sounds really interesting! Mines on Wernher von Braun and his involvement in technological developments during war and peace times. I'm on my 2nd draft of the extended essay, and I have a quick outline plan done. I'm a little worried about my sources though, I have only one book, and the rest are online resoures..

I'm using an online source for mine as well as a few books. Our teacher just stressed that it's really important to put in the date that you took the information from the website in case it gets amended at all, and of course not to use wikipedia.

Yours sounds really good too! I was really looking to do a topic that I found interesting myself and that I hadn't heard of anyone else doing, most of my class are taking the really predictable choice Michael Collins and Hillsborough :rolleyes:

Patbla

Hi,
I'm thinking of doing mine on the loughgall ambush.Any ideas on this.Would I be better of doing it on a certain person?
Any help would be great.

lcstress2012

hI. Was thinking of doing mine on the impact of the building of the titanic in belfast ??? What you think ?????

Aeternum

lcstress2012 wrote: »

hI. Was thinking of doing mine on the impact of the building of the titanic in belfast ??? What you think ?????

There'll be loads of sources available for that anyway I'd say! It sounds good just make sure you have your specific aims in your outline plan and stick to them in the essay, might be a bit wide of a subject I'm not sure though. Best of luck anyway

Daleyford

Thank God I've mine finished.. decided to go with "How Margaret Thatcher brought about social and economical change in GB during her years in Government"

LostBoy101

I've finished mine as well but going to polish it up when my mocks are over. My topic was on "The rise and fall of the Manchester United Busby Babes"

If you haven't started now I would really get cracking on it after the mocks.

RoutineBites

LostBoy101 wrote: »

My topic was on "The rise and fall of the Manchester United Busby Babes"

Know an insane amount of people that are doing the, "Munich Air Disaster" or "Busby's Babes." At least five altogether. Must be alongside, "(Insert locality here) War Of Independence/Civil War tragedy" the most popular project. Doing mine on the transfer of power from the Anarchists/Trotskyists to the Communists on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War. Having second thoughts about my choice, but its a bit late now. Have to start it during the mid-term.

Ricky10

Does anyone know if I can do the Munich Air Disaster for my rsr? I don't know how to explain if its Historically significant. Is there any other historical sporting events I could do and could you tell me how it's historically significant!

SureYWouldntYa

yes that was done in my class last year. another person done something about Maradona's hand of god incident. another done kerry's near 5 in a row in the 80's. you can do pretty much anything

Ricky10

Any idea on how it's Historically significant?

Canard

You can waffle the significance a bit tbh, I didnt know you had to do that til after my essay and it was grand. :pac: Just say something like "which is historically significant being a great tragedy in which ___ people died and ___ more were injured, and I was intrigued to know more about it".

Ricky10

Thanks!

Ricky10

Anyone know the historical significance of the Munich Air Disaster?
Or can anyone give me another historical sporting event and explain why it's historically significant.

mockingjay

I think firstly one of the most promising teams in sporting history was almost eradicated, changing the way teams travel until this day. However the area you need to focus on is the Journalistic and Political implications. By this I mean the media intrusion into the disaster caused some politicians to call for privacy from the press, as such The Public Bodies Act (1960) was introduced, as such enabling hospitals by law to exclude the public from their meetings, this they hoped would hinder hospital staff giving press information.

I suppose it was the first type of media sensationalism appearing or the celebrity culture that we know today - and as such where a lot of the tabloid press sprang from, for example, in today's terms the Independent Media Groups phone hacking scandal was a new low, and many in 1958 believed that publishing pictures of injured players was distasteful etc - so it helped shape the British Press Office etc at the time.

You could also look at the Hillsborough Disaster in the modern era or our own Bloody Sunday in Croke Park. Best of luck.

Ricky10

Thanks a million!You've helped me big time!

thesimpsons

Ricky10 wrote: »

Anyone know the historical significance of the Munich Air Disaster?
Or can anyone give me another historical sporting event and explain why it's historically significant.

know someone who did project on Munster beating the All Blacks at rugby. same person got A1 in history. You can do virtually anything for the project but my recommendation is always keep it local. can you imagine the correctors getting Munich Air year after year after year versus a well researched obscure bit of local history.

rgmmg

I did mine on the Graf Spee – a German pocket battleship that marauded around the Atlantic masquerading as a cargo ship or something. Interesting but a lot of detail.