History Tips

siobhanod93

Seeing as there are forums up about Biology and Home Ec, I decides I'd do one on History too

Anybody any predictions of what is going to come up?

Also, how are ye studying for the exam? I have no idea how to do it for history as it is such a huge course and anything can be asked....

chicken_little

Here's my own predictions.

movements for reform:
GAA
Land
Carson
First Sinn Féin party
Redmond
consolidating catholic identity
Suffragettes

Pursuit of sov.
Rise of second party Sinn Féin
Eucharistic Congress/cultural identity
negotations for anglo irish treaty
something about Cosgrave's economic policies
problems in ireland after WW2

Dictators and Democracy;
problems in either Britian or Germany in the intewar years
Anglo American influence
How Germany's social problems lead to the rise of the Nazis
Propaganda
3rd Republic of France
Vichy France
Something about Lenin
Home Front in Britian

This is all I plan on learning, anyone agree or have anymore suggestions?

Canard

chicken_little wrote: »

Here's my own predictions.

movements for reform:
GAA
Land
Carson
First Sinn Féin party
Redmond
consolidating catholic identity
Suffragettes

Pursuit of sov.
Rise of second party Sinn Féin
Eucharistic Congress/cultural identity
negotations for anglo irish treaty
something about Cosgrave's economic policies
problems in ireland after WW2

Dictators and Democracy;
problems in either Britian or Germany in the intewar years
Anglo American influence
How Germany's social problems lead to the rise of the Nazis
Propaganda
3rd Republic of France
Vichy France
Something about Lenin
Home Front in Britian

This is all I plan on learning, anyone agree or have anymore suggestions?

Can I ask why you think sinn fein is coming up? For D&D seeing as you did France I'd assume you did warfare technology - we didnt but it came up in 06 and 09 so might be worth learning And why do you think anglo-american influence will be on it?

chicken_little

Patchy~ wrote: »

Can I ask why you think sinn fein is coming up? For D&D seeing as you did France I'd assume you did warfare technology - we didnt but it came up in 06 and 09 so might be worth learning And why do you think anglo-american influence will be on it?

This is just what I gathered from this years mock papers and from past exam papers. Just thought it was interesting that SF has never come up yet (and also i think it's a lovely question :P) No didn't do warfare.

snoreborewhore

Sinn Fein question would be beautiful... I'm hoping Hitler's Foreign Policy or maybe Propaganda come up. Both fairly straighforward. And for Northen Ireland - Apprentice Boys, Welfare State and Coleraine - can't go wrong.

jmclee

awww those pursuit of sov questions would be sweet, I hear Truman and domestic policies affecting foreign policies like McCarthyism and the anti war movement for anyone doing US history

What I do for history, or what I plan to do, is I have at this stage all my essays written that I want to learn which are real general ones covering all or most of the course and now I'll just learn from them.. I don't even read from the book anymore
The trouble is gettin down to learn them!

chicken_little

Anyone else have any good ideas? I plan to try and learn about 6 for eac topic and take it from there then. What are other teachers predicting?

galwaymusic

I'm only studying the essays/ topics I think could come up and that I know I can remember;
• GAA
• Coleraine
• Parnell
• India
• France Race Relations
• British Economic/ Social Problems
• German " "
• Nazi Propaganda
• Technology of Warfare
• Anglo - American Pop Culture

Is that ok?

chicken_little

galwaymusic wrote: »

I'm only studying the essays/ topics I think could come up and that I know I can remember;
• GAA
• Coleraine
• Parnell
• India
• France Race Relations
• British Economic/ Social Problems
• German " "
• Nazi Propaganda
• Technology of Warfare
• Anglo - American Pop Culture

Is that ok?

Yeah, they're similar to mine but i'm not sure if I'm safe with just those either Does anyone have an essay plan for problems in Britian because I'm struggling to get 4 pages on that alone..

Namlub

galwaymusic wrote: »

I'm only studying the essays/ topics I think could come up and that I know I can remember;
• GAA
• Coleraine
• Parnell
• India
• France Race Relations
• British Economic/ Social Problems
• German " "
• Nazi Propaganda
• Technology of Warfare
• Anglo - American Pop Culture

Is that ok?

Are you not doing Katanga?

galwaymusic

Namlub wrote: »

Are you not doing Katanga?

I did but ugh, I Just remembered India like that! Got 40/40 in the India essay in the mocks. I dont like the Katanga question- it's confusing :P
But ill study the France Race Relations one, because I find that easy too.
Do you think I should try study Katanga?

chicken_little

How many essays are people going to learn from each section? i think I can manage about 6 I'm not sure which are the safest to focus on

stall_the_ball

This is what I'll be learning, maybe one or 2 more depending...



GAA
Land
Carson
First Sinn Féin party
consolidating catholic identity
Suffragettes


Rise of second party Sinn Féin
Eucharistic Congress
cultural identity
negotations for anglo irish treaty
something about Cosgrave's economic policies
anglo irish relations

problems in either Britian or Germany in the intewar years
Anglo American influence
How Germany's social problems lead to the rise of the Nazis
Propaganda
3rd Republic of France

and katanga, India and race relations in france

SureYWouldntYa

GAA
Parnell and HR
Butt and HR
1913 Lockout
Them elections

Treaty
NI WW2
Eucharistic Congress
How did Treaty lead to Civil War
Civil War

Stalin foreign policy
Rise of fascism
Germany 20-39
Technology of Warfare
AA Culture
Jarrow March

All documents cause India will not come up in my opinion

Canard

Why's everyone studying AA culture, just out of curiosity?

galwaymusic

How do ye "learn" essays? There's a lot of info, I'm managing but there's a lot !

Canard

I learn the main points - usually youd kinda know the info but you make sure you know how it fits for certain titles

Meowth

I normally dont make predictions but.... sure I might aswell

Movements for Political and Social Reform
Parnell & HR
1885 and 1886 elections
Land Question
GAA, Gaelic League , Anglo Irish Literary Revival
Lockout

Pursuit of Sovereignty
1916 Rising
The 1918 General Elections
Anglo Irish Treaty
The Eucharistic Congress

Dictatorship and Democracy
emergence of Fascism
Nazi Propaganda
The Show Triails
Lenin Q
Stalin Q
Jarrow March

Retreat from Empire
either Katanga or India

Viken

How do ye "learn" essays? There's a lot of info, I'm managing but there's a lot !

I'm writing down key points on flashcards, and going over them regularly...well, in theory. In practice I'm more than a little lazy.

Anyway, I have no idea what to expect from my actual LC result in history. My teacher is a hard marker, but I still managed to do fairly well in the mocks.

I have a few questions:

• How managable is an A1? My exams have never been marked by anyone other than my current history teacher, so I don't really have a good idea of the full-mark standard or how close I am to it. Could someone link to a so-called "perfect essay" [that is of reasonable length considering the 35-40 minute limit]?

• Do you guys have any tips for time management? - that's my main problem. It takes me a while to warm up and really start belting out answers, and by that stage it's usually too late and I leave half a question unfinished!

• What's a quick way to test yourself on a topic, aside from writing an answer?

And finally, I need advise on which sections to learn.

Northern Ireland: I'm thinking: the respective governments under Brookeborough and O'Neill...rise of/reasons for the Civil Rights movement...steps towards a peaceful resolution of the Troubles...and the reasons for the failure of the Power-sharing Executive/Sunningdale.

Pursuit of Sovereignty wise, I'm fairly sure on all aspects Free State governments 1923-32, rise of Sinn Féin, and the reasons for/impact of Partition.. What are some other good, versatile answers to prepare?

Dictatorship and Democracy: Everything to do with Russia. Church-State relations in both Deutschland and Italy. Government policies in both Germany and Britain in the inter-war years. Rise of Fascism. Foreign policies of Hitler/Mussolini. What else?

Doing both physics and history is a killer, so any help would be appreciated from the professionals Thanks guys.

stall_the_ball

What's everyone planning to learn so? I'd like to see if mine are similar

Canard

Well I'd like to at least learn:
All 3 European Retreat from Empire case studies
NI: Sunningdale, Coleraine, Apprentice Boys, Welfare State, NICRA, Brookeborough vs O'Neill
Sov & Partition: Eucharistic Congress!, FF/CnG economic/social/anglo-irish policies, Ireland N/S in WWII...I'd learn the treaty but 1. its boring and 2. its answered badly every year so while they might put it back on for that reason, i dont wanna do it badly!
Dictatorship and Democracy: Everything about Hitler, nazi propaganda, Stalin's economic and social policies, maybe Italy's economy, Weimar Germany andddd Britain. Not sure if I'm leaving out anything important here, Anglo-American culture is apparently due up but i cba :rolleyes:

I have a lot of work to do :eek:

stall_the_ball

Patchy~ wrote: »

Well I'd like to at least learn:
All 3 European Retreat from Empire case studies
NI: Sunningdale, Coleraine, Apprentice Boys, Welfare State, NICRA, Brookeborough vs O'Neill
Sov & Partition: Eucharistic Congress!, FF/CnG economic/social/anglo-irish policies, Ireland N/S in WWII...I'd learn the treaty but 1. its boring and 2. its answered badly every year so while they might put it back on for that reason, i dont wanna do it badly!
Dictatorship and Democracy: Everything about Hitler, nazi propaganda, Stalin's economic and social policies, maybe Italy's economy, Weimar Germany andddd Britain. Not sure if I'm leaving out anything important here, Anglo-American culture is apparently due up but i cba :rolleyes:

I have a lot of work to do :eek:

Such a relief! I've gotten more realistic and have narrowed mine down. I'm kinda wary of hoping for the Congress too much tho incase it's a dodgy question... I deff agree with economic policies, real chance of that coming up. The treaty is very boring, and difficult :P for dictators and democracy I'm not going near Facism, no way. Hoping for propaganda, Weimar, britian, hitlers use of those economic conditions to get into power, that's never been asked either

Canard

stall_the_ball wrote: »

Such a relief! I've gotten more realistic and have narrowed mine down. I'm kinda wary of hoping for the Congress too much tho incase it's a dodgy question... I deff agree with economic policies, real chance of that coming up. The treaty is very boring, and difficult :P for dictators and democracy I'm not going near Facism, no way. Hoping for propaganda, Weimar, britian, hitlers use of those economic conditions to get into power, that's never been asked either

Me too, not to mention there'll be a high standard with everyone banking on it, but if you do it right youre grand Theres not too many ways they can twist it I dont think
Yep its a huge section of the book so I hope its asked in some way Treaty is too...nittygritty :P Fascism has been asked before and I think its too simple or something, it came up in my mock but I doubt it'll be asked again. Might look over it anyway Are you sure about that last part? I remember my sister doing an essay a while ago on how weimar germany's problems contributed to hitler's rise to power; i assumed it was a past paper question but maybe not haha.

_pure_mule_

do you reckon you would be ok to learn an essay for each case study and the three documents inside out? Would you be safe enough?:)

Canard

Bluntly, no, they once didnt ask any case studies in Dictatorship & Democracy I think. If you're going to cut it down so much I'd advise you to study extra books' case studies. But in the NI book theres a lot of other stuff asked frequently so I'd advise you to just find similar material in your books, you dont want to do badly over a silly risk :eek:

stall_the_ball

Patchy~ wrote: »

Are you sure about that last part? I remember my sister doing an essay a while ago on how weimar germany's problems contributed to hitler's rise to power; i assumed it was a past paper question but maybe not haha.

No, I'm not sure but i think it was a sample paper before the 2006 exam

Also Stalin's social nd economic change up last year.. After spending some time planning out these I've been warned that the SEC is making an effort to make exams less predictable, slightly worrying....

Namlub

The Eucharistic Congress seems almost too predictable in a way...still hope it comes up though, I hate that section.

Canard

Agreed, so you've to study the entire book anyway. :rolleyes: Sort of thinking of learning the impact of the CFP, its from another book and its a case study and was on the mocks. I learn about it in geography anyway and I hate Sov & Partition so... :pac:

Anyone got any ideas what might come up if the eucharistic congress doesnt?

siobhanod93

Hopefully the Case study on the treaty

Liv__

Anybody have any suggestions for the American history? I've no clue!

stall_the_ball

Which one do people think is more likely, Third Republic or Vichy? I'd hate if Vichy came up for the S&E when I've all the other economic ones done, just in case I'd like to keep safe

MartieG

History - ROI/NI/Division & Realignment
Hi All,

For History I'm studying Government, Economy and Society in R.O.I 1949-1989, Politics and Society in NI 1949-93 and Division and Realingnement in Europe.

Anybody got any suggestions of what might come up in June on each of these sections and any advice on what areas I should be studying or is anybody else doing these areas?....Also, does a social question always come up in the Division/Realignment in Europe question?

Chloe112

Leeson Street really stressed that State Building will appear as a nice question...
I was thinking either De valera could come up again or cnG and FF
So hard to know.. Any ideas???

Jolly Red Giant

A couple of sample essays for Pursuit of Sovereignty can be found here -

http://leavingcerthistory.net/course-topics/ireland-1912-1949/sample-essays/

MartieG

Anybody have any tips/help for the below topics that I'm studying?....I'm lost with it all...

MartieG wrote: »

History - ROI/NI/Division & Realignment
Hi All,

For History I'm studying Government, Economy and Society in R.O.I 1949-1989, Politics and Society in NI 1949-93 and Division and Realingnement in Europe.

Anybody got any suggestions of what might come up in June on each of these sections and any advice on what areas I should be studying or is anybody else doing these areas?....Also, does a social question always come up in the Division/Realignment in Europe question?

stall_the_ball

Chloe112 wrote: »

Leeson Street really stressed that State Building will appear as a nice question...
I was thinking either De valera could come up again or cnG and FF
So hard to know.. Any ideas???

Did consolidation of democracy not come up last year? Is that the same thing? i'm thinking possibly economic policies....

Chloe112

stall_the_ball wrote: »

Did consolidation of democracy not come up last year? Is that the same thing? i'm thinking possibly economic policies....

Yeah Im not sure now... I think if ya just stick to state buliding u cant go wrong..such a big section they have to put at least two questions on it

Josh93

As some have already suggested, I think The Rise of Sinn Fein may come up in some way or another. I just have a suspicion about comparing Cosgrave and DeV's economic policies as well for some reason.

By the way, is anybody studying the Nation States and International Tensions, 1871-1914 for the European topic?

LoonyLovegood

Soverignity and partition:

Sinn Fein
Eucharistic Congress
De Valera's government
The Emergency
NI duing the war

NI

Battle of the Bogside
Welfare State
Sunningdale
Coleraine
Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985
Downing Street Declaration

Dictatorship and Democracy

Stalin's totalitarian state
Nazi Germany's economic and social policies
Britain Economic and social
Vichy France
The Holocaust
AA Culture
Allies during the war.

Will that be enough?

stall_the_ball

CTYIgirl wrote: »

Soverignity and partition:

Sinn Fein
Eucharistic Congress
De Valera's government
The Emergency
NI duing the war

NI

Battle of the Bogside
Welfare State
Sunningdale
Coleraine
Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985
Downing Street Declaration

Dictatorship and Democracy

Stalin's totalitarian state
Nazi Germany's economic and social policies
Britain Economic and social
Vichy France
The Holocaust
AA Culture
Allies during the war.

Will that be enough?

Sort of similar to mine alright. I'm worried now about the exams being less predictable tho because it really isn't possible to learn the whole course, it's just a matter of deciding which bits to leave out.

On another note, could a load of new questions that have never been asked before come up,

• suffragettes
• 1st Sinn Féin
• Co-operative movement
• educational reforms
• consolidation of catholic identity

• impact of the WW1
• 1916 rising
• rise of SF and 1918 elections
• economic policies in the free state
• impact of partition on economy and society
• impact of wall street crash
• culture in the north

• church relations under hitler and mussolini

stall_the_ball

Josh93 wrote: »

As some have already suggested, I think The Rise of Sinn Fein may come up in some way or another. I just have a suspicion about comparing Cosgrave and DeV's economic policies as well for some reason.

By the way, is anybody studying the Nation States and International Tensions, 1871-1914 for the European topic?

I have the exact same suspicion! Maybe the Rise of SF could come up as the effect The Rising had on Ireland?

Also how does one do an essay on the AA culture? is there facts and figures or what because i can't find any and it seems like a nice question, I'd be sickened if I hadn't it prepared and it came up....

Chloe112

Josh93 wrote: »

As some have already suggested, I think The Rise of Sinn Fein may come up in some way or another. I just have a suspicion about comparing Cosgrave and DeV's economic policies as well for some reason.

By the way, is anybody studying the Nation States and International Tensions, 1871-1914 for the European topic?

Yeah i have a feeling that cos and dev maybe up..but the question is nearly the same as compare and contrast cng and ff which comes up all the time..
Dev might come up on his own again I think.. Any idea what will come up for the Home Rule section?? :rolleyes:

LanaMay94

MartieG wrote: »

Anybody have any tips/help for the below topics that I'm studying?....I'm lost with it all...

I'm studying the Government Economy and Society one as well, not many people are so its hard to find any help for it.
We haven't prepared much for it, so the ones I'm learning are:
-How effective was Sean Lemass in his management of internal and external affairs
-How successful were the governments of the 70s and 80s in dealing with economic and social issues?
-What impact did membership of the EEC have on Ireland, including Irish fisheries
-What impact did television have on the culture and society of Ireland
-What was the First Program for Economic Expansion and what effect did it have on the economy of Ireland
-During the period 1949-59 how successful were the social and economic policies of Irish governments

I have essays typed out on the first two that I can send to you if you want. The first one is a good choice if it comes up, the second one and the last one are both tricky because they contain so many different governments. I went to a seminar and they told us to just focus on the case studies, so hopefully lemass/eec/tv will come up.

paulmannion14

Impact of WW1 anybody?

Dwellingdweller

Hey guize, for those of you studying Topic 3: Ireland, would you recommend to do the Treaty and Cng+FF/eco+anglo-irish relations 1921-1939, Cng+FF on it's own or the Treaty, on it's own? I only have notes done out on the Treaty ATM and I find it quite interesting, but if I do the 3-4(ish) Irish government essays from 1921-39, I'll be set because a question comes up on those every year. I just don't know if it's worth it to take the time to study them as well, if a question on the Treaty is likely to come up. (I'm also going to study the Eucharistic Congress as a part of the FF government essay). My history teacher says you're pretty much guaranteed an essay on Irish governments, 1921-39, if you do it... but there's so much in it! Gah.

tl;dr learn just the Treaty, or make the extra effort and learn the Treaty+Irish governments, 1921-39.
thanks

stall_the_ball

I'm learning both anyway...

barbarians

My essays:

Dictatorship and Democracy

Stalin's Russia/Show Trials
Nazi Propaganda/Nuremberg Rallies
Britain's Inter-War Problems/Jarrow
Origins and Growth of Fascism
Society During World War Two

Movements For Political and Social Reform

Larkin/Strike and Lockout
G.A.A/Gaelic League
Parnell/Home Rule
Suffrgettes
Educational Reforms

Politics and Society in Northern Ireland

Coleraine University Controversy
Apprentice Boys of Derry
Sunningdale Agreement
Brookeborough & O'Neill
Welfare State


I'd love to learn Church-State Relations, Land and the Impact of the Troubles on Society and Economy as extras but don't know if I'll get the time

I'm worried about the Northern Ireland unit, do people think I'll be covered ? I bloody hate the Sunningdale Agreement! :mad:

A perfect Leaving Cert. would be Coleraine, Strike and Lockout, Origins and Growth of Fascism and France for the documents :P

SlyBacon93

does anyone else think the eucharistic congress is way too obvious to study?

MartieG

Hey, I do Politics in Society in NI..

I think Coleraine is the number one to come up, but I'm only going Coleraine and Sunningdale..Do you have any notes on these as I don't have any ????Any advice/help on these sections ?

barbarians wrote: »

My essays:

Dictatorship and Democracy

Stalin's Russia/Show Trials
Nazi Propaganda/Nuremberg Rallies
Britain's Inter-War Problems/Jarrow
Origins and Growth of Fascism
Society During World War Two

Movements For Political and Social Reform

Larkin/Strike and Lockout
G.A.A/Gaelic League
Parnell/Home Rule
Suffrgettes
Educational Reforms

Politics and Society in Northern Ireland

Coleraine University Controversy
Apprentice Boys of Derry
Sunningdale Agreement
Brookeborough & O'Neill
Welfare State


I'd love to learn Church-State Relations, Land and the Impact of the Troubles on Society and Economy as extras but don't know if I'll get the time

I'm worried about the Northern Ireland unit, do people think I'll be covered ? I bloody hate the Sunningdale Agreement! :mad:

A perfect Leaving Cert. would be Coleraine, Strike and Lockout, Origins and Growth of Fascism and France for the documents :P

barbarians

MartieG wrote: »

Hey, I do Politics in Society in NI..

I think Coleraine is the number one to come up, but I'm only going Coleraine and Sunningdale..Do you have any notes on these as I don't have any ????Any advice/help on these sections ?

I have notes and sample essays on both Coleraine and Sunnigdale.


For Coleraine, I'd make sure to say how the controversy reflects the deep divisions in N.I. at the time or be sure to know how to link the essay with the specific question.

Megan.mcgowan

I've seriously narrowed down which essays im going to learn, because im at the stage now where I dont have time to learn off like 5 or 6 from each..

Movements For Political and Social Reform

Larkin/Strike and Lockout
G.A.A/Gaelic League
Parnell/Home Rule

Politics and Society in Northern Ireland

Coleraine University Controversy
Apprentice Boys of Derry
Sunningdale Agreement
(one of the three has always been asked every year)

Division and Realignment in Europe

Literature and Social Criticism, East and West
Youth and Poplular Culture (including mass media+ sport)
Marriage and Changing role of women
The Oil Crisis
Maybe the essay on the EEC