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Question (4 marks): What does Source A suggest about Unionist attitudes towards the new Northern Ireland state in the 1930s? Use the source and your contextual knowledge.
Source A (extract): "All I boast is that we have a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State." — Sir James Craig, Stormont, 24 April 1934.
Mark scheme (CCEA Level descriptors):
- L1 (1): simple inference (e.g. "Unionists were Protestant").
- L2 (2–3): supported inference using the source AND own knowledge (e.g. links Craig's words to gerrymandering of Derry, abolition of PR 1929, exclusion of Catholics from B Specials).
- L3 (4): developed inference — Craig is asserting permanent Unionist hegemony, mirrors de Valera's "Catholic state for a Catholic people" claim; shows that the state was openly confessional, not pluralist.
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