Irish Leaving Certificate History

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Notes for Irish Leaving Certificate History (Ordinary and Higher level), in four folders: Early Modern and Later Modern, each split into Irish history and Europe and the wider world. Every topic has its own folder, with notes on its politics, society, culture and religion and the case studies. Follows the 2003 syllabus. Delete the topic folders your class does not study once the notes are yours.

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Early Modern Ireland
- Tudor Ireland, 1494-1558
  - Tudor Ireland: reform, rebellion and plantation, 1494-155810 KB
  - Tudor Ireland: society, religion and Gaelic culture, 1494-15588 KB
- Elizabethan Ireland, 1558-1603
  - Elizabethan Ireland: reform, rebellion and the Nine Years War, 1558-160310 KB
  - Elizabethan Ireland: society, religion and culture, 1558-16037 KB
- Kingdom versus colony, 1603-1660
  - Ireland, 1603-1660: plantation, Strafford, rebellion and Cromwell11 KB
  - Ireland, 1603-1660: land, settlement, religion and learning7 KB
- Establishing a colonial ascendancy, 1660-1715
  - Ireland, 1660-1715: Restoration, the War of the Two Kings and the Penal Laws7 KB
  - Ireland, 1660-1715: economy, society, religion and culture6 KB
- Colony versus kingdom, 1715-1770
  - Ireland, 1715-1770: the Protestant Nation, Swift and the Patriots7 KB
  - Ireland, 1715-1770: rural society, the Whiteboys, trade and culture7 KB
- The end of the Irish kingdom and the Union, 1770-1815
  - Ireland, 1770-1815: Grattan's Parliament, the 1798 rebellion and the Act of Union10 KB
  - Ireland, 1770-1815: economy, Catholic relief, religion and culture7 KB
Early Modern Europe and the wider world
- Europe from Renaissance to Reformation, 1492-1567
  - Europe, 1492-1567: Spain, Charles V, the Valois wars and Tudor England8 KB
  - Europe, 1492-1567: Renaissance, Reformation, society and economy10 KB
- Religion and power, 1567-1609
  - Europe, 1567-1609: Philip II, the Dutch Revolt, French Wars of Religion and the Armada7 KB
  - Europe, 1567-1609: Muscovy, the Holy Roman Empire, economy, religion and science9 KB
- The eclipse of Old Europe, 1609-1660
  - Europe, 1609-1660: absolutism, the Thirty Years War and revolution in England8 KB
  - Europe, 1609-1660: society, trade, religion, science and political ideas9 KB
- Europe in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715
  - Europe, 1660-1715: Louis XIV, England, Brandenburg, Poland and Russia8 KB
  - Europe, 1660-1715: trade, finance, religion, Versailles and science8 KB
- Establishing empires, 1715-1775
  - Europe and the wider world, 1715-1775: states, armies, wars and the road to the American Revolution8 KB
  - Europe and the wider world, 1715-1775: trade, slavery, society and the Enlightenment10 KB
- Empires in revolution, 1775-1815
  - The American Revolution and the French Revolution, 1775-17999 KB
  - France and Europe, 1799-1815: the Napoleonic state and Napoleonic Europe5 KB
  - Europe, 1775-1815: economy, society, religion and ideas in the age of revolution8 KB
Later Modern Ireland
- Ireland and the Union, 1815-1870
  - Ireland, 1815-1850: government under the Union, O'Connell and Young Ireland6 KB
  - Ireland, 1815-1870: the countryside, the Famine, emigration and the post-Famine economy8 KB
  - Ireland, 1850-1870: Fenianism, Liberal reforms, religion, culture and science7 KB
- Movements for political and social reform, 1870-1914
  - Ireland, 1870-1914: the Home Rule movement, Unionism and the Ulster question7 KB
  - Ireland, 1870-1914: land reform, labour, co-operation, Belfast and education6 KB
  - Ireland, 1870-1914: the suffrage movement, the GAA, the Gaelic League and cultural revival7 KB
- The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949
  - Ireland, 1912-1923: the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Treaty and the Civil War8 KB
  - Ireland, 1923-1949: from Free State to Republic, the Unionist state in Northern Ireland and the Second World War8 KB
  - Ireland, 1922-1949: partition's economic effects, the Depression, protectionism, religion and culture7 KB
- The Irish diaspora, 1840-1966
  - The Irish diaspora, 1840-1966: patterns of emigration6 KB
  - The Irish diaspora, 1840-1966: politics, religion, culture and links with Ireland10 KB
- Politics and society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993
  - Northern Ireland, 1949-1993: civil rights, the Troubles and the search for a settlement9 KB
  - Northern Ireland, 1949-1993: welfare, economy, the Troubles' effects, religion and culture7 KB
- Government, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-1989
  - The Republic of Ireland, 1949-1989: governments, economic planning, Europe and Anglo-Irish relations7 KB
  - The Republic of Ireland, 1949-1989: social change, women, the EEC's effects, culture and religion9 KB
Later Modern Europe and the wider world
- Nationalism and state formation in Europe, 1815-1871
  - The German lands, 1815-1871: from Confederation to Empire6 KB
  - Europe, 1815-1871: Italian unification, France under three regimes and the Balkans6 KB
  - Europe, 1815-1871: industrialisation, society, religion, culture and science9 KB
- Nation states and international tensions, 1871-1920
  - Europe, 1871-1914: Bismarck's alliances, Wilhelm II, imperialism and the road to war7 KB
  - Europe, 1914-1920: the conduct of the First World War, war and revolution, and the peace settlement6 KB
  - Europe, 1871-1920: industrial society, women and war, culture, anti-Semitism and science9 KB
- Dictatorship and democracy in Europe, 1920-1945
  - Europe, 1920-1945: the origins and growth of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany7 KB
  - Europe, 1920-1945: Lenin and Stalin, the French Third Republic and Vichy, and the wartime alliances8 KB
  - Europe, 1920-1945: the inter-war economy, the Soviet alternative, the Home Front, resistance and the Holocaust7 KB
  - Europe, 1920-1945: Nazi propaganda, church and state, popular culture and the technology of warfare7 KB
- Division and realignment in Europe, 1945-1992
  - Europe, 1945-1992: the Cold War, the division of Germany and the collapse of communism7 KB
  - Europe, 1945-1992: European unity, the Western and Communist economies, family and consumer society8 KB
  - Europe, 1945-1992: literature, religion, youth culture, the media and science7 KB
- European retreat from empire and the aftermath, 1945-1990
  - European decolonisation in Asia and the Middle East, 1945-19577 KB
  - Africa, 1950-1990: the winds of change, post-independence relations and the economics of decolonisation8 KB
  - Britain and France, 1945-1990: immigration, race relations, Islam and post-colonial culture8 KB
- The United States and the world, 1945-1989
  - The United States, 1945-1989: the economic boom, its decline, society, women and race7 KB
  - The United States, 1945-1989: government, presidents, McCarthyism and foreign policy8 KB
  - The United States, 1945-1989: consensus and its collapse, religion, the media, education and technology8 KB

The first note

Early Modern Ireland / Tudor Ireland, 1494-1558 / Tudor Ireland: reform, rebellion and plantation, 1494-1558

## Ireland under the early Tudors At the end of the fifteenth century the English crown held direct power in only a small part of Ireland. The Pale, the districts of Dublin, Louth, Meath and Kildare, was the area where English law and government worked, and even there the king's officers depended on the goodwill of local lords. Outside it lay Gaelic lordships that followed their own law and customs, and the great Anglo-Irish families (the Old English), who ruled large territories almost as independent princes. Henry VII (1485-1509) and Henry VIII (1509-1547) both wanted Ireland to be orderly and cheap to govern, and for most of the period they tried to do this by working through the greatest local family, the Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare. ### The Kildare hegemony The 8th Earl of Kildare, Gerald FitzGerald, called Garret Mór (the Great Earl), was Lord Deputy for most of the years between 1477 and his death in 1513. The Lord Deputy was the king's representative in Ireland, and Kildare used the office to build up his own power. His estates, his armed followers and his marriage alliances with Gaelic lords (he married his daughters into Gaelic ruling families) let him keep a rough order that the crown could not have afforded to impose from England. In return the crown tolerated an overmighty subject. The weakness of the arrangement was that Kildare's loyalty could never be taken for granted. In 1487 he supported the pretender Lambert Simnel, who was crowned in Christ Church…

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