Anglo-Irish Relations 1851-1886

Question 1

The Act of Union was signed in …

Answer 1

1801

Question 2

This Act constitutionally united Ireland with the rest of Great Britain forming the ….. …..

Answer 2

United Kingdom

Question 3

Under this Act, Ireland’s separate … was abolished

Answer 3

Parliament

Question 4

… MPs were elected to Westminster growing to … following the 1832 Reform Act

Answer 4

100

105

Question 5

The religion of Ireland was predominantly …. ……

Answer 5

Roman Catholic

Question 6

However, the …… …… was established as the official Chuch of Ireland

Answer 6

Anglican Church

Question 7

In 1845-1851 Ireland’s crop suffered from the …. ….. Which destroyed their crops and contributed to famine

Answer 7

Potato Blight

Question 8

Around ………….. are thought to have died

Answer 8

1 million

Question 9

Around…….. are thought to have emigrated

Answer 9

2 million

Question 10

At the height of the famine the British government continued to…… food out of Ireland

Answer 10

Export

Question 11

The British government was …. to act and was said to have failed to take any effective….. and the anger passed down through the generations in Ireland

Answer 11

Slow

Action

Question 12

The province of ….. was different as the majority of it’s population were not Roman Catholic

Answer 12

Ulster

Question 13

This part of Ireland had not been affected by the …..

Answer 13

famine

Question 14

The people in this area were descended from ……. settlers from England and Scotland

Answer 14

Protestant

Question 15

The major city of…….. developed due to industry and investment

Answer 15

Belfast

Question 16

Famine methods in Southern Ireland were…….. (1)

Answer 16

Backward, primitive, outdated, unproductive

Question 17

This was due to lack of ……… and …… landlords ad well as unfair……… and forced ………

Answer 17

Investment
Absentee
Rents
Evictions

Question 18

An unfair 18th Century law required Catholic farmers to ….-……. estates between all surviving sons, limiting their inheritance of Catholics too

Answer 18

Sub-Divide

Question 19

The idea of Home Rule came from…… …..

Answer 19

Daniel O’Connell

Question 20

He led the campaign for the Parliamentary oath to be amended so that ……. MPs could sit in Westminster

Answer 20

Catholic

Question 21

This led to…… ……

In the year

Answer 21

Catholic Emancipation

1829

Question 22

Home Rule was unthinkable to Peel’s government in 1840s Britain as it might less to complete…….. , it would lead to ……… problems as well as ……. problems

Answer 22

Independence
Strategic
Imperial/ Economic

Question 23

By some extremists Home Rule meant the complete …… of Ireland from Britian
These are called Irish ……..

Answer 23

Separation

Nationalists

Question 24

The term “Fenian” were first used by a group of Irish Repulicans in the 1840’s in which country??

Answer 24

America

Question 25

In what year did the Manchester Martyrs attempt to kill a police officer whilst attempting to break free and inmate?

Answer 25

1867

Question 26

What happened to the fenians who killed the police officer?

Answer 26

Hung in public

Question 27

What is the name given to the Irish counterpart of the Fenian group, former in the 1850s?

Answer 27

Irish Republican Brotherhood | IRB

Question 28

What were the Coercion Acts?

Answer 28

It was legal for people to be imprisoned without a proper trial

Question 29

What did Gladstone dislike about these acts??

Answer 29

They made Britain look immoral or Made pretensions of Britain bring superior a mockery

Question 30

When Gladstone took office in 1868 he put Irealnf at the top if his agenda saying his aim was to ....... Ireland

Answer 30

Pacify

Question 31

In 1867 he believe the main issues were .... and .....

Answer 31

religion and land

Question 32

Gladstone aimed to since the issue of religion by ....... The..... ........ In the Irish Church Act

Answer 32

Disestablishing the Anglican church

Question 33

Reaction from the Irish Catholics was that it was the end of a great

Answer 33

Injustice

Question 34

The first Land Act was passed in ....

Answer 34

1870

Question 35

It's aim was to prevent unfair ...

Answer 35

Evictions

Question 36

Gladstone had hoped it would provoke more ...... attitudes amongst landlords

Answer 36

Christian

Question 37

Gladstone did not go further as he was not a advocate of ...... ......

Answer 37

Government intervention

Question 38

Local ...... we're set up to hear cases of unfair evictions of grievances against landlords- but they were often corrupt or the wording or the law was easily adaptable

Answer 38

Tribunals

Question 39

As a response, Irish tenants set up their own group called the ....... .......

Answer 39

The Land League

Question 40

This group was organising..... strikes

Answer 40

Rent

Question 41

It was lead by the Irish Nationalist Party Leader......... ......... .......

Answer 41

Charles Stewart Parnell

Question 42

Gladstone retaliated with a new ..... ......

Answer 42

Coercion Bill

Question 43

In 1881, Gladstone passed the ........ ....... ....... .....

Answer 43

Second Irish Land Act

Question 44

They granted the ...... .....'s

Answer 44

3 F's

Question 45

...... tenancies ........ to sell ......... rents

Answer 45

fixed freedom fair

Question 46

The Act gave much more ........ and eased much tension on the land

Answer 46

Protection

Question 47

However it did not ease the Nationalists demand for ....... ......

Answer 47

Home Rule