JC History case studies
JC History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Junior Certificate History examination is the lower-secondary history qualification taken in Irish post-primary schools, typically at the end of a three-year junior cycle. It is designed for students who have studied history as a timetabled subject and who are assessed on what they can do with evidence as much as on what they can recall. The JC History case studies are 5 cases and about 3,433 words.
1The Landlord's Rents: Weighing a Letter, an Account Book and a Family Memoir
During a Classroom-Based Assessment, Aoife is investigating a dispute over a proposed monument in her town to a local landlord, Colonel Wray, who died in 1874. She has three sources.
746 words, about 4 min2Dating a Crannóg: Stratigraphy, Radiocarbon and a Drainage Ditch
At a crannóg excavation in Co. Leitrim, a team records four layers.
736 words, about 4 min31798 in One Parish: Rebels, Losses and a Family Memory
A transition-year class is preparing a display for the anniversary of a battle near their town. A local committee supplies three items.
669 words, about 3 min4Assisted Emigration from a Co. Clare Estate: Ledger, Letters and Newspaper Praise
A student is investigating assisted emigration from a Co. Clare estate in 1847–1851.
631 words, about 3 min5Who Won the Cuban Missile Crisis? Testing a Draft Claim Against Four Sources
For a project on the Cold War, a student examines the Cuban Missile Crisis. She has: (A) extracts from the ExComm meetings, October 1962, released in the 1990s, in which Kennedy and advisers discuss air strikes and blockade; (B) a Soviet general's memoir published in 1990, claiming Soviet forces in Cuba had tactical nuclear weapons and could have used them without Moscow's permission if invaded; (C) a British newspaper editorial from 28 October 1962 praising Kennedy's 'firmness' and saying 'Khrushchev blinked'; (D) a Cuban school textbook from 1985 describing the crisis as a victory over American imperialism.
651 words, about 3 min