Investigation: Why did Hugh move to Belfast?

This is a second lesson in a series on Ulster Heritage where students use sources to formulate their own understanding of events in History. This resource is a pdf that should be printed and stapled into a booklet.

The lesson involves analysising a series of sources on a real individual “Hugh William Quinn” of Loughinisland, County Down and investigate throught different schools of historical interpretation as to why he gave up his life in Loughinisland and headed to Belfast.

Tasks are embedded in the resource:
Part 1: Note taking on each source.
Part 2: Using sources, identify Hugh’s cousins, list all of the jobs that he has occupied throughout his life and draw a diagram of his house using evidence from the 1911 census household return. Additionally a search on the Irish Civil Records Archives for Hugh’s birth register.
Part 3: An extended writing task where students must write three paragraphs which each individually explains why Hugh went to Belfast but each time from a different school of historical thoughts, (Intentionalists, Structuralists and Annales).
An assessment rubric is present in the resource.

I use this resource as part of a bigger resources which teaches Geneology. This source will also be useful as part of a Unit on Ulster Heritage.