Leaving Cert History 2021

The 2021 Leaving Cert History exam paper and official marking scheme, free below as direct PDF links from the State Examinations Commission archive.

Higher Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2021 Higher Level paper?
  • Q1 montgomery bus boycott, civil rights, document analysis · 100 marks
  • Q2 ireland and the union, 19th century ireland · 100 marks
  • Q3 political reform, social reform, 19th century ireland · 100 marks
  • Q4 irish independence, partition, 20th century ireland · 100 marks
  • Q5 irish diaspora, emigration · 100 marks
  • Q6 northern ireland, politics and society · 100 marks
  • Q7 republic of ireland, government and society · 100 marks
  • Q8 nationalism, european state formation · 100 marks
  • Q9 international tensions, world war i · 100 marks
  • Q10 dictatorship, democracy, interwar europe · 100 marks
  • Q11 cold war, european division · 100 marks
  • Q12 decolonisation, european empire · 100 marks

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2021 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 documents-based question, civil rights, montgomery bus boycott, united states · 100 marks
  • Q2 ireland and the union, great famine, daniel o'connell · 100 marks
  • Q3 movements for political and social reform, home rule, land reform · 100 marks
  • Q4 pursuit of sovereignty, easter rising, anglo-irish treaty · 100 marks
  • Q5 irish diaspora, emigration, great famine · 100 marks
  • Q6 northern ireland, the troubles, provisional ira · 100 marks
  • Q7 government economy and society, rté, first programme for economic expansion · 100 marks
  • Q8 nationalism and state formation, 1848 revolutions, italian unification · 100 marks
  • Q9 nation states and international tensions, world war i, women in the workforce · 100 marks
  • Q10 dictatorship and democracy, nazism, stalin · 100 marks
  • Q11 division and realignment, cold war, khrushchev, gorbachev · 100 marks
  • Q12 european retreat from empire, decolonisation, windrush generation · 100 marks
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