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SKILLS BOOK COMPLETE JUNIOR CYCLE HISTORY Stacy Stout with Dermot Lucey COMPLETE JUNIOR CYCLE HISTORY SKILLS BOOK Stacy Stout with Dermot Lucey Gill Education Hume Avenue Park West Dublin 12 www.gilleducation.ie Gill Education in an imprint of M.H. Gill & Co. © Stacy Stout 2018 ISBN: 978 07171 8068 4 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the publishers or else under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency. Original design: Design Image Layout: David Cullen Illustrations: Andriy Yankovskyy and Jeremy Bays Front Cover Images: Michael Collins © Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Muhammad Ali © Bettmann/Getty Images. Back Cover Image: © Corbis/Getty Images. Extract from Night by Elie Wiesel. Copyright © 1972, 1985 by Elie Wiesel. English translation Copyright © 2006 by Marion Wiesel (Hill and Wang, 2006). 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Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... iv Junior Cycle History checklist ......................................................................................................................................... 1 Three-Year Reflection Timeline ........................................................................................................................................ 2 01 How do Historians and Archaeologists Find Out about the Past? ......................................................................... 4 02 Life in Ancient Rome ............................................................................................................................................. 13 03 Early Christian Ireland .......................................................................................................................................... 23 04 Exploring Life and Death in Medieval Times ........................................................................................................ 34 05 How is the Renaissance Historically Significant? ................................................................................................ 45 06 Evaluating the Impact of Conquest and Colonisation ........................................................................................ 56 07 Martin Luther and the Reformation – The Historical Importance of Religion .................................................... 65 08 The Plantation of Ulster and the Growth of Towns .............................................................................................. 74 09 The American Revolution ..................................................................................................................................... 83 10 Exploring the 1798 Rebellion ................................................................................................................................ 91 11 Industrial Society in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ....................................................................... 101 12 Investigating the Causes, Course and Consequences of the Great Famine ..................................................... 109 13 The Parliamentary Tradition in Irish Politics – Daniel OʼConnell and C. S. Parnell .......................................... 118 14 The Impact of the GAA on Irish Life .................................................................................................................... 124 15 The Rise and Impact of Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland, 1911–23 ......................................................... 131 16 Life in Nazi Germany ........................................................................................................................................... 140 17 Life in Soviet Russia ............................................................................................................................................ 148 18 The Drift to War – The Causes of World War II .................................................................................................... 155 19 World War II, 1939–45 ......................................................................................................................................... 165 20 The Holocaust ..................................................................................................................................................... 176 21 The Impact of World War II on Ireland, North and South .................................................................................. 185 22 The Cold War ....................................................................................................................................................... 194 23 The Changing Experience of Women in Twentieth-Century Ireland ................................................................ 203 24 The 1960s: An Important Decade in World History ........................................................................................... 211 25 The 1960s: An Important Decade in Irish History .............................................................................................. 223 26 The Troubles in Northern Ireland ....................................................................................................................... 231 27 The European Union and Ireland’s Links with Europe ...................................................................................... 239 Technology and Historical Change ............................................................................................................................. 247 Health and Medicine ................................................................................................................................................... 255 Crime and Punishment ............................................................................................................................................... 262 MAKING HISTORY SKILLS BOOK Introduction The Making History Skills Book provides an active, creative and investigative approach to studying Junior Cycle History. Throughout this book you will be given the chance to learn about the past and its relevance today. You will develop your skills as a historian, form and voice your opinions about historical events and also empathise with and understand the motivations of people from the past. This will prepare you for Junior Cycle History and to appreciate history outside the classroom. The Skills Book should be used in conjunction with your Making History textbook. It will help you apply the skills and investigate and revise what you have discovered in the textbook. Throughout the textbook you will find a series of suggestions as to where a particular Skills Book exercise could be used. ❰❰P. 9 Difficulties historians face in dealing with sources. Each chapter contains a variety of different activities to ensure you meet all Learning Outcomes in the Junior Cycle History Specification and develop the eight Key Skills of Junior Cycle. The Key Skills developed in each exercise are highlighted through the inclusion of relevant icons. Managing Information Being Literate Being Creative and Thinking Being Numerate Managing Myself Working with Others Communicating Staying Well As a challenge, ‘follow-up’ questions have been included throughout. Follow-up question: Should the Ulster Planation be commemorated as a positive or negative event in Irish history? Support your answer with evidence. Note there are separate sections at the end of this Skills Book, on Technology and Historical Change, on Health and Medicine and on Crime and Punishment. While these topics have been addressed chronologically throughout the textbook, they are presented in separate sections at the end of the Skills Book to help you synthesise your learning and identify patterns of change. Every chapter closes with a key words activity, while