Texts for pupils (PowerPoint)
Who Should Control Ireland? (also pdf version)
Ireland & the Spanish Armada (also pdf version)
Two Gaelic Poems (in English) (also pdf version)
Visual (~ please contact IiS)
Slideshows (jpeg files - editable) ~
Sequencing the Life of Grace O’Malley pdf version with captions
Grace O’Malley, Granuaile, & Her Times ~
Maps of Ireland pdf PowerPoint
Study units (* pdf format)
Tudor Fortune Line (Y8)
Why Were There So Many Armada Wrecks off the West of Ireland? (Y8)
Who Should Control Ireland: Tudor Monarchs or Irish Lords (Y8) 1. Note for Teachers 2. Student Booklet: Who Should Control Ireland?
3. Worksheets 4. Images used in Worksheets (PowerPoint)
Reputations: Cromwell at Drogheda (Y8)*
Cromwell in Ireland: Collective Memory (Y8)*
Battling for Ireland in 17th Century (Y8)*
United Kingdom - Forced or Made? (Y8)*
Uniting the United Kingdom (Y8)*
Starters - Cromwell & Ireland (Y8)*
Resources (~ please contact IiS)
Tudor Images of Ireland*
Grace O’Malley
1. The Background* 2. & Elizabeth I* 3. Maps, Images, Notes*
Grace O’Malley - Songs*
Eclipse of Gaelic Ireland - Poetry*
Historical novels about Tudor Ireland (PowerPoint)~
1641 Rising: Protestant Propaganda (PowerPoint) Loyalist Mural Celebrating Cromwell's Arrival in Ireland
Dates as Symbols for the People of Northern Ireland (1641, 1649, 1688, 1689, 1690)
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BBC Plantations William III
Cromwell: Genocidal Maniac or Man of His Time? (Flash - 6 mins)*
Today, BBC Radio 4, 3 September 2008
On the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, two historians, Dr Michael O'Siochru** (Trinity College, Dublin) and Professor Martyn Bennett (Nottingham Trent University), agree that Cromwell was a more complex character than is usually allowed but debate whether the brutality of his invasion of Ireland in 1649 should be seen solely in the context of Ireland or in the broader context of the English civil war. * wma version to play or download (To download the wma file in Firefox, right click on link and go to 'Save link as'.)
** Dr O'Siochru expands on his view of Cromwell in Ireland in 'The Curse of Cromwell?', History Ireland, Vol. 16 No. 5, September/October 2008, pp 14-17.
He concludes that Cromwell 'remains a remarkably modern figure, relevant to our understanding of both the past and the present, somebody to be closely studied and understood rather than revered or reviled'
For further details of the article, please contact IiS.
British Library
Ireland: Propaganda and Plantations (Sources & activities)
1.Irish priests attacked (1583) 2. An English view of Irish customs (1581)
3. An English view of Plantation (1612) 4. The Munster Rebellion (1599)
5. A Plantation Estate (1598) 6. Massacres of Protestants (1641) |