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Junior Cycle History: The Northern Ireland Troubles

How often The Northern Ireland Troubles comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

The Northern Ireland Troubles, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on The Northern Ireland Troubles.

(a)What did the Northern Ireland civil rights movement of the late 1960s protest against?
  1. Northern Ireland joining the EEC with Britain
  2. Discrimination in housing, jobs and votes
  3. British troops being taken out of the North
(b)What happened in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972?
  1. Loyalist gunmen attacked a Dublin march
  2. The IRA set off bombs across Belfast city
  3. British soldiers shot 13 marchers dead
(c)Internment, introduced in Northern Ireland in August 1971, meant…
  1. Imprisonment without trial
  2. A ban on all marches
  3. Forced service in the army
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(a) Discrimination in housing, jobs and votes

(b) British soldiers shot 13 marchers dead

(c) Imprisonment without trial

Your turn: Common Level questions on The Northern Ireland Troubles.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q7
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Q7
2022Not asked

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

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