Leaving Cert history - special topic

sligolad1

Trying to come up with ideas for my srs and would appreciate any thoughts and comments. Some ideas I had
-bombing of Greenpeace ship (is it too recent?)

-Cuban involvement in Angolan civil war

-some aspect of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

TheFitz13

I done the first transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown and it was so easy to write about. My teacher also said that it would be unique as not many people would consider taking it on. There's also the north stand bombings (very popular).

randylonghorn

sligolad1 wrote: »

Trying to come up with ideas for my srs and would appreciate any thoughts and comments. Some ideas I had
-bombing of Greenpeace ship (is it too recent?)

-Cuban involvement in Angolan civil war

-some aspect of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Consider taking something local, or with a local or at least Irish link.

spurious

randylonghorn wrote:

Consider taking something local, or with a local or at least Irish link.

This is what all the Chief Examiner's reports recommend.

vg88

Did mine on the involvement of Hitler Youth in the Battle of Berlin and got a very good mark.

mikemac2

Fadó fadó I did the massacre at Katyn

Thousands of Polish army officers executed in a forest and then the Germans and Soviets blamed each other and tried to use it for propaganda. 

Got a very good score

randylonghorn

mikemac2 wrote: »

Fadó fadó I did the massacre at Katyn

Thousands of Polish army officers executed in a forest and then the Germans and Soviets blamed each other and tried to use it for propaganda. 

God, that one rings a bell.

One of the really sad / shameful events for the human race that makes even historians yearn to reach for the whiskey and drink til we forget it ever happened, for the sake of our sanity!


Ok, let's be clear ... a really good / flawless project will get a really good / flawless mark regardless. Markers play fair.

However, let's note that for years and years the Chief and A/Chief Examiners for history have been encouraging local and Irish-linked projects, and bemoaning the fact that there aren't more of them; it's been a really consistent issue highlighted year after year.

On top of that, the reality is that sources available for locally related issues tend to be better / more dependable / easier to critique with some degree of confidence that one isn't talking out of where one sits! >_>

So, two decent projects ... one is about Irish aces in the RFC in WW1, one is about the Cubans in Angola ... taking into account all these probabilities which they focus on in maths these days, which both spurious and I escaped thank fook! ... which is likely to find it easier to get that extra mark or two?

Jolly Red Giant

sligolad1 wrote: »

Trying to come up with ideas for my srs and would appreciate any thoughts and comments. Some ideas I had
-bombing of Greenpeace ship (is it too recent?)

Only restriction is that it has to be before 1989 - the Rainbow Warrior bombing was in 1985 - so it is good to go.

sligolad1 wrote: »

-Cuban involvement in Angolan civil war

This is a broad topic and would be too broad for a research topic

sligolad1 wrote: »

-some aspect of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Again this is broad - but you could do something specifically on the six-day war or the Yom Kippur war for example.

This might help

https://leavingcerthistory.net/research-projects/

Jolly Red Giant

randylonghorn wrote: »

So, two decent projects ... one is about Irish aces in the RFC in WW1, one is about the Cubans in Angola ... taking into account all these probabilities which they focus on in maths these days, which both spurious and I escaped thank fook! ... which is likely to find it easier to get that extra mark or two?

While the Chief Examiner has encouraged an increase in local or Irish linked topics the examiners will not penalise topics that do not fall into this category or give extra marks for local based topics.

Hanwellian

My son has just done his on the failure of the Gallipolli campaign during WW1

hasdanta

I did mine on the Life of Dan Donnelly, an Irish boxing hero (who's first two fights took place about a 10 minute drive from me).