Revision - Dictatorship and Democracy

Key Personality - Charlie Chaplin.

Thanks to Una for sharing this link! Very powerful speech criticising Hitler and Nazism, from Chaplin's first talking film 'The Great Dictator' released in 1940.

Sixth Year, Leaving Certificate History - Revision Seminar

Event - Sixth Year History Revision Seminar

Venue - Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin

Date - Saturday 20th March 2010

Cost - 20 euro payable at the door. First Come First served basis.

9.30 - Registration

10-11.00 - The Marking Scheme and how to maximise your marks - Ms Susan Cashell, Advising Examiner and teacher.

11.00-12.00 - tackling the Case Studies in 'Dictatorship and Democracy' - Sean Delap - teacher and text book author.

12.00 - 1.00 - Contextualisation of the 3 case studies - Gerard O sullivan - teacher and HIST Inservice team member.

Talking History Podcasts - Newstalk Radio

Check out the archive of useful podcasts from Newstalk 106-108Fm's popular history programme Talking History. Upcoming programmes of specific interest to our LC syllabus will be available as follows:

Monday 11th March -special Leaving Certificate History programme
Monday 15th March - Fine Gael
Monday 22nd March - Patrick Pearse andd Martin Luther King
Monday 29th March - Edward Carson, Bobby Kennedy and Roger Casement

Go to www.newstalk.ie or itunes

Talking History on Newstalk every Sunday from 7pm - 9pm.

Revision - Sovereignty and Partition -The Belfast Blitz 1941

Check out this useful video about the Belfast Blitz 1941.

Revision - Dictatorship and Democracy - Propaganda

Check out an interview with Leni Riefenstahl - key personality. Includes footage from Nuremburg Rally.

Revision - The Eucharistic Congress 1932

Check out newsreel footage of 1. The Papal Legate's welcome to Ireland. 2. Celebrations during the religious festival, including Mass in The Phoenix Park and a procession through the Dublin City Centre and O Connell St.
See also the useful article " On show to the world: The Eucharistic Congress of 1932" in History Ireland. Click on the link below.
http://www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume15/issue6/features/?id=114156

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Revision - Sovereignty and Partition - Easter 1916

Check out two short videos on the events of the 1916 Rising. 1. Includes eyewitness testimony 2. Includes useful footage of the aftermath of 1916 and photgraphs from the time.