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Click here for preparatory pathways on Irish history at Key Stage 3
 
Study units - pdf format                                                                      
Key Stage 3

How differently have the English & Irish regarded events in Ireland since the 12th century? - an overview of Anglo-Irish relations in one lesson

  1. Lesson   2. Sources & images (PowerPoint)

What Happened in Omagh? An Introduction of Irish History (Y7)
  1. Lesson Plans  2. Resources (PowerPoint)
Resolving Conflict in Northern Ireland (Y8)
English Attitudes to Ireland (Y9)
Peace in Northern Ireland (Y9)
Interpreting Irish History - Michael Collins (Y9)
Why Are Protestants & Catholics Willing to Share Power in Northern Ireland

Now & Not Earlier?   (KS3) 
  1. Study Unit  2. Collages for Lesson 1 (PowerPoint) 3. More Resources (added 28/9/07)

Colourpoint Books Timeline Activity  New - 31/01/2008

  1. pdf version  2. PowerPoint

GCSE
Division & Peace
Ireland’s Bloody Past 1 - Lower
Ireland’s Bloody Past 2 - Higher
Orange Marches
Bloody Sunday & IRA 1 - Assignments
Bloody Sunday & IRA 2 - Background
Partition of Ireland
  1. Study unit  2. Documents
Conflict at Holy Cross School, Belfast
Warrington & Reconciliation (GCSE - RE) - contact IiS
Cal & A Modest Proposal (GCSE)
KS3/GCSE

Poetry & The Troubles 1 - with Students’ Work

Poetry & The Troubles 2 - without Students' Work

See also 'War' segment of BBC NI series on Northern Ireland Poets

 
2. Resources - mainly pdf format                                                                      

Media Diary
Ireland Quiz 1
Ireland Quiz 2

Bombing of Markethill

  1. Behind the Headlines  2. Growing up in NI

Background on Conflict in Northern Ireland
  1. Three Questions for Teachers - Partition & Political Violence
  2. Ireland Background for Students Doing Coursework
Ulster Unionism: Some Questions 
Political Groups in Northern Ireland (Mindmap)

'Gallery' Art & 'The Troubles' 

Murals in Northern Ireland

  1. Symbols  2. Loyalist  3. Republican   4. Sorting Exercise* 
  The images are available in jpg format at

  http://irelandinschools.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album25
DEC Citizenship Exercise

  1. Tasks & Murals  2. Slideshow of Murals (Ppt)

Constructing Five Murals: Techniques of the Bogside Artists

  1. Pdf Booklet  2. PowerPoint Version
Kathryn Conrad's Northern Ireland Photo Gallery: murals, graffiti, marches, & protests

Marches & Murals - 1916 & Present

Reading Images: Murals in Northern Ireland  PowerPoint (added 30/04/07)
'Gables' end: Murals to be replaced', The Guardian, 12 July 2006

* Slideshows: Murals in NI: 1. Symbols 2. Loyalist 3. Republican

Crown forces in Northern Ireland: Posters (PowerPoint)  New - 03/02/2008
  (Army in action; memorial to RUC dead)
Warrington Bombing - Press Reactions - contact IiS
Irish History in Song
The Black & Tans and the Auxiliaries (Post-16)
  1. Documents & Sources  2. Images (PowerPoint)
Art & ‘the Troubles’
  1. PowerPoint  2. Three Examples (pdf)
Seeing the Whole Picture in Northern Ireland (PowerPoint)
BBC: Northern Ireland

  1965-85 Northern Ireland 'Troubles'

  A State Apart

 
3. Resources - sound & video clips