The History Teachers' Association of Ireland
Cumann Múinteoirí Staire na hÉireann
Representing Teachers Throughout Ireland
National Archives – The Treaty Exhibition
National Archives DMP Movement of Extremists
National Archives – Census of Ireland, 1901 & 1911
National Gallery of Ireland Archives
National Library – The Dublin Lockout
National Library – Digital Photographs Online
National Library – Case Studies
National Library – Yeats: The Life and Works of WB Yeats
National Library – The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives
National Library (NLIreland) on Twitter
National Library – JFK Homecoming
Trinity College Library – 1641 depositions
Trinity College, The Down Survey
Dublin City Public Libraries_1916 Resource List
History Ireland – Hedge Schools
Talking History with Lindsey Earner-Byrne & Patrick Geoghegan
RTÉ – The History Show (Sunday, 2nd October 2011) – Diarmaid Ferriter interviews the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, T.D.
RTE Look and Listen (from the archives)
What If the Eucharistic Congress had not taken place in 1932?
What If DeValera had signed the Treaty
What If DeValera had said yes to Churchill’s offer of unity in 1941
What If Clann na Phoblachta had won more seats in the 1947 general Election
What If James Connolly had survived 1916
“How can what is not only dead and gone, but remote and sometimes alien, have any practical bearing on today’s world? The answer is that, paradoxically, the value of the past lies precisely in what is different from our world. By giving us another vantage point, it enables us to look at our own circumstances with sharper vision, alert to the possibility that they might have been different, and that they will probably turn out differently in the future.”
― John Tosh, Why History Matters“Unlike historians school pupils will not claim to generate ‘new’ public knowledge from the study of (selected) historical evidence; they will generate new private understanding”.
As a result, the world’s most efficient and effective education systems, from Finland to Singapore, have some strikingly common characteristics: they are unremitting in their focus on the core skills of literacy and numeracy, but they set those skills in the wider context of developing higher-order complex thinking.
Most of all, they take equality seriously: they focus, in a way which education systems historically did not, on ensuring that all – not just a privileged few – develop the higher-order skills needed to use and analyse information, and that they have access to rewarding higher-level training. Put at its crudest, conventional subjects still matter, but they need to be taught and learnt in innovative ways”.
– Chris Husbands, (2013)
http://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/category/chris-husbands/
National Museum of Ireland_Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising
National Museum of Ireland_Collections
National Museum of Ireland Kildare St_Explore and Learn_Archaeology
National Museum of Ireland_Turlough Park_Country Life_schools programme
Scoilnet – Portal for Irish education
Placenames Database of Ireland
Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG)
Centre for History and the New Media
American experience
The History Teacher
Irish Times Digital Archives (Available free to schools and public libraries)
Index to the Sword (Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland), 1993 – 2003
Junior Certificate
NCCA_Junior Certificate_Fact_Sheet
PDST website _evaluation and assessment information:SEC exam resources
Leaving Certificate
PDST website _evaluation and assessment information:SEC exam resources
HIST: Online site for Leaving Certificate History
A Student Guide to the Research Report
Department of Education and Skills
2016 ‘Decade of Centenaries’ All-Island Schools History Competition
