The great famine

Question 1

What was the great Famine

Answer 1

The great famine hapend across ireland between 1845 and 1850. The potato crop had failed and without other crops to feed themselves, people died of starvation and diseseas or were forced to emigrate (move to other countries).

Question 2

List the causes of the famine

Answer 2

Rise in population
Widespread poverty
small farms
reliance on the potato
cottiers worked in exchange for rent rather than money
potato blight

Question 3

What where the relief efforts of the famine

Answer 3

1. Peel sent aid in the form of maize (cheap corn from the usa) enough to feed one million people for one month many still could not affford
2. public work schemes were set up for the people to earn money by building roads,walls or bridges
3. workhouse where estrablished for those who had nowhere else to go
4. volunatary - charity in the workhouse such as soup kitches and donations

5 groups such as the quakers raised awareness world wide of irelands needs and donations came from at least 19 diffrent countries

Question 4

The impact of the famine on ireland

Answer 4

1. Fall in population (dropped by two million) died from dieases and starvation

2.change in farming practises :

3.rise in anti-british feeling: many blamed the british government for the peoples suffering during the famine

Question 5

what was the irish disaspora

Answer 5

the irish diaspora was the scattering of irish migrants and their decendants across the world

Question 6

what was the irish disapora like in britan and the USA

Answer 6

they where not welcomed and the irish sufferd alot of discrimnation

Question 7

Name the 3 main cause of the famine

Answer 7

1. Subdivision of land: farmers divided land to give to their sons. This made farms smaller and farmers poorer.
   2.rise in population (increases demand for food)
   3.over-reliance on the potato because it was cheap and easy to grow many people relied on it for food. A fungal disease, late blight, infected the potato crop, causing widespread destruction and spoilage

Question 8

Consequences of the famine

Answer 8

1. One million people died (population decline)
2. One million people emigrated (mass emigration)
   3.the use of the Irish language was greatly reduced
   4.land ownership and land reform; the famine led to a increase poverty and inequality in Ireland, with many people struggling to access basin necessities such as food, shelter, and healthcare