A concise text with creative use of full-colour maps, graphs, photos and illustrations to explain our past.

The Past Today Year 1
The Past Today Year 2
The Past Today Year 3

First Year
1. Historians at Work: How We Find Out About the Past
2. Our Roots in Ancient Civilisation: Ancient Ireland
3. Ancient Rome
4. Medieval Society: Castle, Church and City
5. The Renaissance

Second Year
1. Changes in the European View of the World: Exploration
2. Religious Change: Reformation
3. Changes in Land-Ownership: Plantation in Ireland
4. Political Change: Revolutionary Movements
5. Social Change: From Farm to Factory

Third Year

1. Ireland in the 20th Century: Political Developments
- Towards an Independent Ireland 1900-22
- The New State
- Northern Ireland 1920-85

2. Ireland in the 20th Century: Social Change

- The Uneasy Peace: Europe after World War I
- Mussolini and Fascist Italy
- Hitler and Nazi Germany
- World War II
- The Rise of the Superpowers, 1945-91
- Moves Towards European Unity

Dermot Lucey teaches at Ballincollig Community School in Cork. He is former chairperson of the Cork Branch of the History Teachers’ Association of Ireland, editor of Stair, the Association’s journal, and is an experienced examiner.