Modern Ireland 1800-Present

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Contents 1 Lectures 1.1 Michaelmas Term 1.2 Hilary Term 1.3 Trinity Term 2 Tutorial Work 3 Tutorial Assignments 4 Essays 4.1 Act of Union 4.2 Ireland in WWI 4.3 Easter Rising 4.4 Civil War 4.5 Economics 5 Past Papers

Lectures

Michaelmas Term

Hilary Term

Trinity Term

Tutorial Work

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Tutorial Assignments

• A Comparison of The Great Irish Famine by Cormac Ó Gráda and The Great Irish Famine by Christine Kinealy

submitted by Laura Buttigieg - 64%

• A Comparison of Land and the National Question in Ireland by Paul Bew and History of Ireland Under the Union by P.S. O’Hegarty

submitted by Felim McGrath - 68%

• Different approaches to Fenianism as a national feeling and fenianism as a revolutionary movement. Using R.W. Comerford’s text The Fenians In Context. Irish politics and society 1848-82 and Leon O’Broin’s Revolutionary Underground. The story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood 1852-1924.

submitted by Christina McSorley - 66%

• A Comparison of Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O’Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy 1820-30 by Fergus O’Ferrall and The Catholic Emancipation Crisis in Ireland 1823-1829 by James A. Reynolds

submitted by Stephen Peirce - 67%

• A Comparison of The Passing of the Irish Act of Union by Geoffrey C. Bolton and The Irish Act of Union by Patrick M. Geoghegan

submitted by William Quill - 66%

• Parnell and Davitt: A Comparison of Biographies, from their first meeting to the Land Act, 1878 – 1881

submitted by Danny Quinn - 58%

Essays

Act of Union

• The Act of Union

submitted by Hugh Roche Kelly - 63%

Ireland in WWI

• Explain which factors encouraged Irish enlistment in the British forces during the First World War.

submitted by Ben Rodger - 64%

• Irish Enlistment into the British Army between 1914 and 1918 was heavily influenced by the political climate in Ireland during that period. Discuss.

submitted by Marie Roe - 65%

• Redmond’s Call to War

submitted by Danny Quinn - 57%

Easter Rising

• The Fall of the Irish Parliamentary Party: Defeat or Self-Destruction.

submitted by Felim McGrath - 66%

Civil War

• Why did the Treaty cause the Civil War?

submitted by Christina McSorley - 63%

• Military, rather than political, actions were the main causes of the Irish Civil War.

submitted by Stephen Peirce - 63%

Economics

• Account for the success of the economic policies implemented by Seán Lemass between 1959 and 1966

submitted by Laura Buttigieg - 65%

• Why was Ireland so poor for so long?

submitted by Felix Sherrington-Kendall - 65%

Past Papers

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