Sample Essays

Please note – these sample essays do not guarantee any mark in the actual exam – they have been added to this website for study and research purposes only

Smaple Essays for this section of the course will be added here before the leaving cert exam

Sample Essay – Who was more influential as Prime Minister, Basil Brooke or Terence O’Neill

Sample Essay – Why was the choice of Coleraine as the site for Northern Ireland’s second university controversial?

Sample Essay – Why were the activities of the Apprentice Boys a source of tension in Derry

Sample Essay – Why did the Sunningdale Agreement fail to achieve power-sharing?

Sample Essay – What was the important of Sunningdale, Anglo-Irish Agreement and Downing St Declaration