LC History case studies
LC History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Leaving Certificate History is a written examination subject in the Irish senior-cycle Leaving Certificate programme, typically taken over two years and examined at Higher and Ordinary level. It suits students who enjoy reading, arguing from evidence and writing at length: the assessment rewards clear thesis-driven essays and close reading of documents rather than memorised lists of dates. The course is organised around a framework of historical skills - working with evidence, research and the historian's craft - applied to chosen topics of study. Schools select from a menu of Irish, European and world topics, so the precise content you meet depends on your teacher's choices; the skills, however, are common to everyone and are examined through document-based and extended-writing questions. The LC History case studies are 5 cases and about 3,344 words.
1Three Accounts of the Glenmore Ambush
A Leaving Certificate student is preparing a research study on the Glenmore ambush of March 1921, in which an IRA flying column attacked a police patrol. She has three sources.
727 words, about 4 min2The Covenant Exhibition in Derry
A local history group in Derry is mounting an exhibition on the Ulster Covenant of 1912. The group has four items.
651 words, about 3 min3Curating 'Ordinary Germans' in Dublin
A museum curator in Dublin is designing a display on 'Ordinary Germans and the Nazi Regime, 1933–45'. She has three sources.
634 words, about 3 min4Comparing Accounts of Bloody Sunday, Selma
A student is comparing accounts of the civil rights march at Selma, Alabama, on 7 March 1965, known as 'Bloody Sunday'. Source A is a New York Times report published the next day; it says 'about 600 Negro demonstrators' were met by 'scores of state troopers' and that 'many were beaten'.
663 words, about 3 min5The Ballyduff Workhouse Research Study
A student is completing a Research Study Report on the Ballyduff workhouse during the Great Famine. The report requires a 'review of sources' and an extended essay.
669 words, about 3 min