Fishing Revision – Junior Cert Geography
- Fish are a renewable resource because they can renew their numbers though breeding. - Fish can be depleted if they are over-exploitedWhy over fishing takes place! Big ships: Some of today...
Notes by Colin Kelleher
Notes, resources, and study guides.
Junior Cert History Terms / Definitions
Black and Tans: Former British soldiers who fought against the IRA/They fought the IRA and got their name from their uniforms (Something more than ‘They fought the IRA’ needed for 2M) Blood...
Mon École (School) – Key Expressions
- Je vais à une école mixte / de garçons / de filles qui s’appelle… I go to a mixed / boys / girls school called… - C’est une grande / petite école… It is a big / small school - Je porte un ...
The Industrial Revolution
Why the Industrial Revolution began in Britain? - Improved agricultural methods provided more and better food supplies - Several new machines were invented in Britain at this time, which sp...
Ancient Ireland
1) The Mesolithic Period (middle Stone Age 7000 BC). First settlers Evidence: Mount Sandal in Derry. Houses: circular, wooden frame tied at top, covered with hides grass or bushes. Food:...
The Plantations in Ireland
Ireland in 1500 King was Lord of Ireland and had little control. The country was divided into 3 areas: 1. The Pale (English speaking, common law, cattle raids) 2. The Anglo-Irish lordships...
Finding About The Past
- History: the story of the past. - Herodotus: father of history. - Archive: documents. - Museum: artefacts. - Sources can be written, pictorial, oral, artefacts or ruins. - Primary sources:...
The Famine
Background Most landlords protestant. Many absentee. Gale day (landlord’s agent). Large farmers (30 acres +). Sublet to small farmers and cottiers. Spailpeens were wandering labourers. Cou...
The United Irishmen And The 1798 Rebellion
Background and causes Irish Parliament controlled by Protestant Ascendancy (C of I only 15% and most of the land) Penal laws left Catholics poor and uneducated. Tithes still had to be paid...
The American War of Independence
Causes Britain wanted to tax the colonists for the 7 Years War with the French and Indians. ‘No Taxation without Representation’ and the Sons of Liberty (attacked collectors). The Navigat...