For the less academic pupil, this series provides a resource for the delivery of the curriculum in a colourful way, enticing children to enjoy learning. This book covers Divided Island, focusing on the 19th century rebellions in Ireland for KS3 History.

Contents:

1 The Story

2 What is a nation?

3 Symbols of a nation

4 The British Empire

5 Ireland and the British Empire

6 Living in Ireland

7 The Great Famine 1845–1849

8 How a landlord helped in Black ‘47

9 Emigration

Activity page: A Coffin ship arrives in Derry

10 Britain: workshop of the world

11 Trade and industry in Ulster

12 Industries in Belfast

13 The Act of Union

14 Opposition to English rule

15 The Home Rule Party

16 The Land League and Home Rule

17 The Land War

18 Gladstone and the First Home Rule Bill

19 The downfall of Parnell

20 The Gaelic Revival

21 Unionists in the south of Ireland

22 Unionists in the north of Ireland

23 The Third Home Rule Crisis

24 Unionists against Home Rule

25 Ulster Day, 28th September 1912

26 The Ulster Volunteer Force

27 The UVF needed guns

28 The Larne gun-running, 1914

Activity page: compare two sources

29 The Irish Volunteer Force, 1914

30 Gun-running at Howth, 1914

31 Remember Bachelor’s Walk

32 The Third Home Rule Bill passed

33 The First World War, 1914–1918

34 “It’s not Ireland’s war”

35 Why I went to war

36 The Easter Rising, 1916

37 A week in Dublin in 1916

38 The rebels surrender

39 What the papers said

40 The execution of the leaders

41 Countess Markievicz

Activity page: Markievicz is sentenced

42 The horror of war

43 Nationalists against conscription

44 The soldiers return home from the war

45 The General Election of 1918

46 Dáil Éireann

47 The War of Independence

48 The Black and Tans

49 Partition

Timeline

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