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Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923

  • 19 subtopics
  • 57 things to know
  • Paper 3
  • Paper 3 themes option, chosen from sixteen

What Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 covers

A Paper 3 option combining aspects in breadth on Irish agitation and changing British policy with aspects in depth on Catholic emancipation, the industrialisation of Ulster, the Famine and the land question, and the labour conflict that culminated in the Dublin Lockout.

Where it is assessed

Paper 3

Themes in breadth with aspects in depth, one option of sixteen.

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The 19 subtopics

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What you need to know

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Who and when

What did the 1793 Relief Act grant, and what did it withhold?

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What were the limits of Grattan's Parliament?

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Why did industrialisation happen in the north east and not the south?

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How did the Famine change Irish social customs?

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What happened to Home Rule bills before 1914?

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Why did Pitt the Younger resign in 1801?

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How did the period end in war and partition, 1919–23?

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Which industry dominated Ulster's economy?

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What caused the Irish Famine?

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What were the roles of Trevelyan and Mitchel?

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What did the Land Act 1870 do?

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What was the Kilmainham Treaty of 1882?

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What role did British trade unions play in the Lockout?

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Who were the Irish Volunteers of the late 1770s?

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What was Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association?

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What were Edward Carson and the UVF?

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What was the Curragh incident of 1914?

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What was the Maynooth Grant of 1845?

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What were the Penal Laws?

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What was the Catholic Board of 1811?

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What was the Catholic Association of 1823?

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What was the significance of the campaign on Irish trade, 1778–82?

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How did Belfast shipbuilding begin?

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What was Harland and Wolff?

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What was the Belfast cholera epidemic of 1848?

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What employment discrepancies existed between Catholics and Protestants?

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What was the structure of Irish landholding before the Famine?

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What was the problem with absentee landlords?

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What was the demographic impact of the Famine?

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What was the Tenant Right League?

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How did the 'long depression' affect Irish agriculture?

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What was the Irishtown meeting of 1879?

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What were the roles of Michael Davitt and the Land League?

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What were working and living conditions like for unskilled Dublin workers?

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What was the significance of the National Union of Dock Labourers in 1907?

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What caused the Dublin Lockout?

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How many workers were involved?

Who and when

What did Larkin ask British unions to do?

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What was the Tithe War?

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What was the new departure?

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Why was the Act of Union passed?

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What were the roles of Asquith and Lloyd George?

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What did the Catholic Relief Acts of 1774–93 achieve?

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What did the relief measure of 1829 allow?

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What restrictions had been placed on Irish trade?

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How did mechanisation and railways affect the linen industry?

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What technical innovations did Harland introduce?

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What was Robert Hickson's role?

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How large was the population dependent on the potato?

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What was Russell's response to the Famine?

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What were the coffin ships?

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What was the Dublin Land Conference of 1870?

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How did bad harvests compound the problem?

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What were the '3 Fs'?

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What was William Martin Murphy's role?

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What happened on Bloody Sunday 1913?

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What was the fiery cross campaign?

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  1. 1

    Who were the Irish Volunteers of the late 1770s?

    Model answer

    An armed, mainly Protestant militia formed from about 1778 that pressured Britain to grant greater independence to the Irish (Dublin) parliament.

  2. 2

    Who were the United Irishmen?

    Model answer

    A society founded in 1791 (Wolfe Tone prominent) seeking parliamentary reform and Catholic–Protestant unity; it became revolutionary and republican and led the 1798 rebellion.

  3. 3

    What was Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association?

    Model answer

    Founded in 1840, it campaigned to repeal the Act of Union and restore an Irish parliament using peaceful 'monster meetings'; the banned Clontarf meeting of 1843 checked the movement.

  4. 4

    What was the Tithe War?

    Model answer

    Widespread resistance in the 1830s to paying tithes to the Protestant Church of Ireland, eased by the Tithe Commutation Act 1838.

  5. 5

    What was Young Ireland?

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    A romantic-nationalist movement of the 1840s (Thomas Davis and The Nation) that split from O'Connell and staged a failed rising in 1848.

  6. 6

    What was the Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians)?

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    A secret revolutionary society founded in 1858 seeking an independent republic by force; its 1867 rising failed and the executed 'Manchester Martyrs' became nationalist icons.

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What does Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 cover in Edexcel A-Level History?
19 subtopics: agitation and rebellion, c1774–c1870, the campaign for home rule, c1870–1910, evolving government policies c1774–1922, british politicians and irish agitation, the penal laws and the catholic relief acts, daniel o'connell and catholic emancipation, removing restrictions on irish trade, 1778–82, and its legacy, the textile industry in ulster, the development of shipbuilding, hickson, mulholland and the industrialisation of ulster, landlords, monoculture and blight, government response to the famine, social and economic impacts of depopulation, the dublin land conference and the land act 1870, the long depression and irish agriculture, davitt, forster and parnell in the land wars, working and living conditions for unskilled urban workers, events and significance of the dublin general strike 1913–14 and british trade unions and the dublin strike. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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