OK, I know I’m a bit late to the party in regard to Irish Paper 2 but I will say it went swimmingly. The poetry questions were quite nice, except for the fact that the Nil Aon Ni codarsnacht question and the Faoiseamh A Gheobhadsa codarsnacht question were practically one and the same – what were they thinking? Anyway, it didn’t bother me one bit. With the pros I did the Cearrbhach Mac Caba question as we had done something similar in class a few weeks ago, and the Fiche Bliain Ag Fas Muris question (which was an absolute joke as far as I’m concerned, I think I was falling apart with fatigue by the time I got to it and my Irish went to shite – I do the paper back to front, btw.) The first An Triail question, though tricky to understand, was alright – at least it seemed to be at the time. Stair – the Bealtrial was perfect! All in all a nice, fair paper.

So now on to today’s exploits. French! How I love French. It’s one of my stronger subjects so I was really pushing the boat out for it, I learned subjunctive, strange unusual phrases, the lot. The paper didn’t disappoint – I really liked the emigration obligatory question, I basically put in about how “L’herbe est plus verte ailleurs” at the moment and how it seems to me like I will have to emigrate if I want a job…Boo hoo! The journal intime was also really cute, and I got use out of all my usual phrases (“Tous mes projets sont tombes dans l’eau! C’est comme un cauchemar!”) I did the question about fashion being as important to boys as it is to girls, which went meh as far as actually discussing the question was concerened and good in relation to the actual French. Actually, any boys out there want to tell me – did ye do that question? I’d have been interested to read some of them…
The comprehensions were not ideal, but not terrible. There were a few little questions I couldn’t get at all, so I just stuck in what I thought it could be and left it at that. The aural on the other hand….I thought it was really difficult, there were some I was just guessing. Our supervisor, who also moonlights as a French teacher (who’da thunk it?) agreed with me, so at least I wasn’t just being silly!

History. As I have said before, History is a faux ami. As I waited with my one other history classmate to go into the exam, I thought my heart would burst with the terror of what might happen.
But my God, was that paper nice. I can honestly say that it couldn’t have gone any better. The Sunningdale document was just about the best document question there could have been…For the question about whether the documents were reliable etc I just rambled on about primary sources and eye-witness reports. Perfect!
Pursuit of Sovereignity: I did the Anglo-Irish relations question. I thought this wouldn’t come up because it’s come up in some shape or form for the past few years but there it was! Somehow halfway through my Dictatorship question (paper done backwards again, of course) I took a wild notion that the paper actually finished at half 4, so I absolutely zoomed through that and then zoomed on through the Sovereignity one as well. At half four no one said anything, so I copped on. Raging.
Dictatorship: I did the Church-State relations question. I liked it, except for the zooming through as mentioned above, which resulted in me doing my last two paragraphs in point form (better than leaving it completely, methinks.)
America: I did the Berlin/Korea/Cuba question and mentioned all 3, I can’t imagine you’d get much out of only one or two of them. Nice question too.
Towards the end of the time my writing was a complete joke, my hand was broke and the back of my neck was absolutely aching. I am absolutely ecstatic.ie that it’s finished though, and I can finally push away all that History that took over my life for so many months.

Good luck to everyone who’s doing Biology tomorrow! I’ve got Art History and I’m pretty well covered so not really worried. Tired tired tired…

Valerie