Test 2

Study: lecture and discussion notes, Coohill Chapters 2-7 (through p. 147 only), documents in coursepack

Test 2 will follow the same format as Test 1.

Part A Short answer: 25 questions (fill in the blank), 2 points each

Defenders Society of United Irishmen Theobold Wolfe Tone James Napper Tandy the '98
Act of Union Castle Hill Uprising Orange Order/ Brunswick Clubs Daniel O'Connell Catholic Emancipation
Catholic Association/ Catholic Rent Repeal landlords/middlemen (tenants)/cottiers Robert Peel tillage vs. pastoral farming
phytopthera infestans Lord John Russell Charles Trevelyan laissez-faire Poor Law vs. public relief
Young Ireland Thomas Davis James Fintan Lalor American money devotional revolution
Indian Civil Service Dominions Fenians/IRB James Stephens Isaac Butt
Home Rule William E Gladstone Charles Stuart Parnell Michael Davitt Land League/ Land War
the New Departure Unionist/Unionism Michael Cusack Gaelic League Literary Revival
John Redmond Arthur Balfour Lord Randolph Churchill Edward Carson Ulster Volunteers
Sinn Fein James Connolly Irish Volunteers Patrick Pearse Roger Casement
Easter Rising David Lloyd George Eamon de Valera Michael Collins Dail Eireann
Irish Republican Army Black and Tans Royal Irish Constabulary Anglo-Irish Treaty/ Partition Irish Free State

 

 

Part B Document identifications: 5 documents, 10 points each

In a paragraph, identify (author; title; date) and analyze five out of six document excerpts (state why significant).

Theobold Wolfe Tone, Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland (1791)

SUI, Declaration of the Societies of United Irishmen (1791)

Irish Parliament, Act of Union (1800)

British Parliament, Roman Catholic Relief Act (1829)

Charles Trevelyan, Treasury circular to heads of Irish deparments on famine relief measures (1847)

William Trench, "Realities of Irish Life" (1868)

John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps) (1861)

Charles S. Parnell, Speech at Cork (1885)

William E. Gladstone, Speech introducing Home Rule (1886)

Joseph Chamberlain, Speech on the second reading of the Home Rule bill (1886)

Douglas Hyde, "The Necessity of De-Anglicizing Ireland" (1892) [link]

Ulster Unionists, Ulster Covenant (1912) [link]

Patrick Pearse, Speech at the Grave of O'Donovan Rossa (1915) [link]

Easter rebels, Proclamation of the Irish Republic (1916) [link]

British and Irish delegations, Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) [link]