catholic irish

Question 1

Role of catholic church

Answer 1

–help: translators, found housing and jobs

–charity:st vincent de paul society- clothing and furniture

Question 2

assimilation

Answer 2

–moved up social ladder

–1918: state funded education- paved way for higher education

Question 3

Living conditions

Answer 3

–no clean running water, shared toilet: poor sanitation – diseases spread, typhus tb smallpox
– few windows or faced walls-> houses too close->lack of sunlight->lack of vitamin D-> rickets in kids

Question 4

jobs

Answer 4

–coalmining: backbreaking & dangers, bad for health due to coal dust
–domestic servant: women work for wealthy families, long and safe hours, higher promo= more money

Question 5

At work experience

Answer 5

–overall jobs were unskilled, menial and low paying

-dirty unpleasant for long hours

Question 6

Crime and drunkenness

Answer 6

–many poor and desperate catholics drowned sorrows in alcohol
–public houses on bridgegate notorious for sat night brawls

Question 7

ww1

Answer 7

Large numbers volunteered for ww1- many died alongside scots for britain

Question 8

Temperance movement

Answer 8

Catholic irish & prostestant irish communities worked together for movement against alcohol use in society

Question 9

Political differences

Answer 9

Cath voted supported home rule and voted libs- conflict as prostestants opposed home rule and voted unionist

Question 10

marriage

Answer 10

priest declared marriage only valid if performed in a chapel by a priest
strictness of catholic teachings made mixed marriages difficult