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Great Irish Famine Exam (Week 5 - Relief in Practice: Landlords, Poor Law and Charity) Quiz am Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz, erstellt von Charlotte Peacock am 09/01/2017.

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Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz

Frage 1 von 19

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Who wrote the saying: 'Irish property must pay for Irish poverty'

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Cormac O Grada

  • Robert Peel

  • James Donnelly

  • Forey

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Frage 2 von 19

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Who walked around rural Ireland and helped poor people's lives - an example of private charity

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Asenath Nicholson

  • Elizabeth Smith

  • The Quakers

  • Queen Victoria

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Frage 3 von 19

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uses strong rhetoric and imagery to appeal to others to provide private charity, such as describing the suffering as '' and

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Frage 4 von 19

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Who promoted the laissez-faire idea that if Ireland were to sustain their population they needed to revamp their economy and not just rely on the English economyy

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Robert Peel

  • Sir John Russell

  • Charles Trevelyan

  • James Donnelly

  • Elizabeth Smith

  • The Times

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Frage 5 von 19

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Which historian is good for understanding British Public Attitudes?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Donnelly

  • O Grada

  • Treveleyan

  • Gray

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Frage 6 von 19

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Which newspaper/media referred to Irish oppressive landlords as reducing tenants to 'serfdom'?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Donnelly

  • The Illustrated London News

  • The Mirror

  • The Times

  • Punch Magazine

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Frage 7 von 19

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Which media production wrote that the 'squalid destitute' Irish many 'disgraced Christendom'

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The Times

  • The Illustrated London News

  • The Mirror

  • The Daily Express

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Frage 8 von 19

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( The Journals of Elizabeth Smith, Asenath Nicholson, The Times extracts ) are useful for understanding the views of a ( racist, Well off, Philanthropic ) British Protestant Irish Landlord - referring to her tenants and the Irish more broadly as 'other' - grotesque 'miserable ( creatures, poor, people, serfs )' - dehumanising and ( animalistic, other, catholic ).

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Frage 9 von 19

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What newspaper wrote that the English saw it as their duty to 'educate and elevate Ireland' by 'teaching the people how to educate and elevate themselves'

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The Times

  • The Mirror

  • The Ireland

  • The Illustrated London News

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Frage 10 von 19

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Which three does Donnelly attribute as the British government's biggest failures

Wähle eine oder mehr der folgenden:

  • Refusal to stop grain exports

  • Not preventing the evictions of half a million people

  • Poor Laws

  • Blaming the landlords for all the problems

  • Laissez-fair approach

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Frage 11 von 19

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A great deal remains to be uncovered about the British public opinion, especially the middle classes

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 12 von 19

1

What does Peter Gray argue?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The importance of providentialism for shaping British attitudes and desire to help Ireland

  • That the Irish economy could be easily restructured after the famine, reshaping agriculture

  • That the famine was a short-term evil for a long term improvement

  • That the media heavily shaped and reflected public attitudes

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Frage 13 von 19

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The National Fast Day highlighted how pivotal the public's attitudes were in government decisions regarding the Famine and relief

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 14 von 19

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Who argues that from 1846 and 1847 the British public experienced 'compassion fatigue' towards Irish relief

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Melissa Fegan

  • James Donnelly

  • O Grada

  • Gray

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Frage 15 von 19

1

'Donor fatigue' is a better description of British activities towards the Irish question, because it is hard to measure people's compassion - particularly when there is more to be done to uncover people's attitudes and feelings from this period

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 16 von 19

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All landlords were violent

Wähle eins der folgenden:

  • WAHR
  • FALSCH

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Frage 17 von 19

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with estates in Tyrone reduced his tenants rents by 10 and %, and offered tenants reduced rates for coal and Meal

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Frage 18 von 19

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In what town did Arthur Kennedy, British colonial administrator, report that 15 000 people were evicted by their landlords in one year alone

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Cork

  • Tyrone

  • Skibereen

  • Kilrush

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Frage 19 von 19

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What was the name of the landlord who still went bankrupt and didn't evict any of his tenants during the famine?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • James du Pre

  • Lord Gort of Calway

  • William Thackery

  • Arthur Kennedy

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