Shaping The Shamrock: Conflict And Identity In Ireland For Ncea Level 1
Author: George Bowen
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: 9781442505797
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: 01 May 2011
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Description
Shaping the Shamrock will help students gain an overview of Irish history and specifically a number of key people and key happenings, including an event known in Ireland as The Easter Rising. Shaping the Shamrock covers the events that led up to a range of significant happenings; the aftermath effects and how these events eventually shaped the Ireland that we see today. Shaping the Shamrock investigates different perspectives religious and political and provides links to the significance of the effects that Irish culture, religion and politics had on our New Zealand society. Shaping the Shamrock includes a useful and comprehensive Whos Who reference. The content of this book provides assessment opportunities for all of the History Achievement Standards at Level 1.
Table of contents
Useful information Acknowledgements Introduction A short history of the Irish impact on New Zealand Who’s Who The changing face of Ireland, 1200–2000 What do you already know?
Chapter 1: Setting the stage for conflict Old Ireland The conquest and colonisation of Ireland A land of saints and scholars The Great Potato Famine: 1845–1851
Chapter 2: The rise of Irish national consciousness 1800–1914 Cultural revival, new nationalism and efforts to unify diversity Political movements Anti-nationalist groups
Chapter 3: Looking for solutions The land issue The path of reform English conciliation and increased Irish division
Chapter 4: The struggle for Home Rule The situation in 1909 The 1909 Budget Crisis opened the way to Home Rule
Chapter 5: Reactions to Home Rule: Who would be ‘Lord of the Dance’? Irish reactions Carson, Asquith and Redmond play ‘political poker’ and separate North from South The road to civil war
Chapter 6: Boiling the pot: discord and war 1912–1914: Further conflicts 1913: The Dublin Lockout 1914–1918: World War I
Chapter 7: The Easter Rising: choosing the cycle of violence Planning the ‘blood sacrifice’ The Easter Rising: the birth of ‘a terrible beauty’ (Yeats) The aftermath
Chapter 8: The rise of Sinn Fein and the Anglo-Irish War Home Rule The transformation of Sinn Fein Conscription and the National Pledge 1918: The Khaki Election The Anglo-Irish War: 1919–1921 December 1920: the Government of Ireland Act
Chapter 9: Accepting the consequences of conflict The Treaty The Irish Civil War: 1922–1923
Chapter 10: Dealing with the consequences of conflict in Northern Ireland A new cycle of violence The 1930s and 1940s: Anti-Catholic discrimination The 1960s: ‘The Troubles’ begin The 1970s and 1980s: Escalating militancy The 1990s: The Troubles continue The 1990s–2000s: A gradual peace
Chapter 11: Dealing with the consequences of conflict in the Irish Free State/the Republic of Ireland The Irish Free State (1922–1937) Eire/Ireland (1937–1949) The Republic of Ireland (1949– ) 1954–2010: Social and political developments Economic development: The growth of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ Relations between the Republic and Northern Ireland, 1980s–2000s