IRELAND
Worksheet
1/Brief History
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celui qui fait l'action est -il toujours mentionnι? Pourquoi ΰ votre avis?
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2/Complete with :
After /Almost a century later /At the end of the seventeenth century /Early in the nineteenth century /Following years of guerilla warfare/ Forty years later /The end of the sixties and the seventies /by the mid-century /in 1949 /in 1968 /in 1969 /more than four centuries /only eight years later
..the first invasion of Ireland by the Normans in 1169, .. went by before the next really important date in Irish history : the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, in which the native Irish were defeated. .., the Catholics rebelled against the Protestants of Ulster, but they may have regretted drawing attention to themselves .., in 1649, when Cromwell was responsible for their massacre. .., the year 1690 saw the Protestants victorious at the famous Battle of the Boyne. .., in 1782 ,a movement on the part of the Irish Protestants resulted in the creation of an independent Parliament, which, after some rebellious agitation, was abolished in 1801. .., the Catholics finally achieved emancipation but purely political problems were eclipsed .. famine in which half the population either died of starvation or emigrated. .. the Irish free State was established but the six countries of Northern Ireland opted out, and this led to the partition of Ireland. The Free Sate was renamed the Irish Republic . .. have been marked by the civil rights march in Derry , violent riots leading to the British army being called in, the increasingly active role played by the IRA in support of the Catholics and against the Protestants and the British Government, and the escalation in the number of bomb attacks carried out by the IRA in British cities.
3 The origins of the conflict
.. of England declared himself overlord of Ireland in . .. This was the beginning of an English presence in Ireland that .. by the Irish.The division between the two peoples intensified when the English became .. and the .. remained . ..The English deepened Irish resentment further by establishing protestant plantations in Ireland especially in in the .. .
4 check you understood:
1.The origins of the conflict can be traced as far as the 12th century
2 Things got worse when the English became protestant.
3 Ulster has always been protestant
5 Irish famine
Most people in the .. lived on land that was .. by Anglo-Irish landlords and existed almost entirely on ... When disease .. the potato harvest in .. and .. the poor were left starving to ... The who ruled Ireland did .. to . Corn laws had kept the price of .. high and by the time bread was available it was too late. Nearly .. people died and were forced to ...
Check you understood well:
1 By the end of the 19th century most of the poor Irish people owned a plot of land .
2 Potatoes were a treat for poor Irish people.
3 Bread was more expensive than potatoes.
4 The potato diseases in the mid-19th century had little consequences on the life of the Irish.
5 The British were very helpful when the potato harvests were destroyed.
The Easter rising
The Easter Rising was...
It occured ...
The Irish republic was created...
There was a war between the Irish Republican Army and the British ...
All of Ireland became independent...
Bloody Sunday
1 When did Bloody Sunday occur?
2 Where did it take place?
3 What happened?
4 How many protesters were there?
5 According to the British army why did they fire at the marchers?
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What is the IRA? Sinn Fein?
What's the difference between the two?
In the murals what is the IRA compared to? what do they have in common?
What is the meaning conveyed by the last picture but one? What do the dates refer to?
What is this tall wall at the back of the house in the last picture?