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Junior Cycle History: Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising

How often Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising.

(a)Under Home Rule, Ireland would have…
  1. Full independence as a republic
  2. Its own parliament for Irish affairs
  3. No king and no link with Britain
(b)Which unionist leader led the campaign against the Third Home Rule Bill from 1912?
  1. Patrick Pearse
  2. John Redmond
  3. Edward Carson
(c)The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was set up in 1913 to…
  1. Resist Home Rule, by force if needed
  2. Help Redmond win Home Rule
  3. Fight for a fully independent Irish republic
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(a) Its own parliament for Irish affairs

(b) Edward Carson

(c) Resist Home Rule, by force if needed

Your turn: Common Level questions on Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q1
2024Q5
2023Q4
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising questions

Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising, 3 marks

Why did Irish public opinion swing towards the rebels after the 1916 Rising?

  1. The rebels had won the fighting
  2. Britain granted a republic
  3. The executions of the leaders
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The executions of the leaders

At first many Dubliners opposed the Rising. The executions of 15 men in May 1916, plus mass arrests, created martyrs and turned support to Sinn Féin.

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