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Who wrote the saying: 'Irish property must pay for Irish poverty'
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Cormac O Grada
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Robert Peel
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James Donnelly
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Forey
Frage 2
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Who walked around rural Ireland and helped poor people's lives - an example of private charity
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Asenath Nicholson
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Elizabeth Smith
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The Quakers
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Queen Victoria
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[blank_start]Asenath Nicholson[blank_end] uses strong rhetoric and imagery to appeal to others to provide private charity, such as describing the suffering as '[blank_start]suffering[blank_end]' and [blank_start]'skeletal'[blank_end]
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'skeletal'
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suffering
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Asenath Nicholson
Frage 4
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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
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Robert Peel
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Sir John Russell
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Charles Trevelyan
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James Donnelly
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Elizabeth Smith
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The Times
Frage 5
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Which historian is good for understanding British Public Attitudes?
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Donnelly
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O Grada
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Treveleyan
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Gray
Frage 6
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Which newspaper/media referred to Irish oppressive landlords as reducing tenants to 'serfdom'?
Frage 7
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Which media production wrote that the 'squalid destitute' Irish many 'disgraced Christendom'
Frage 8
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[blank_start]The Journals of Elizabeth Smith[blank_end] are useful for understanding the views of a [blank_start]racist[blank_end] British Protestant Irish Landlord - referring to her tenants and the Irish more broadly as 'other' - grotesque 'miserable [blank_start]creatures[blank_end]' - dehumanising and [blank_start]animalistic[blank_end].
Frage 9
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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'
Frage 10
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Which three does Donnelly attribute as the British government's biggest failures
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Refusal to stop grain exports
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Not preventing the evictions of half a million people
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Poor Laws
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Blaming the landlords for all the problems
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Laissez-fair approach
Frage 11
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A great deal remains to be uncovered about the British public opinion, especially the middle classes
Frage 12
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What does Peter Gray argue?
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The importance of providentialism for shaping British attitudes and desire to help Ireland
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That the Irish economy could be easily restructured after the famine, reshaping agriculture
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That the famine was a short-term evil for a long term improvement
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That the media heavily shaped and reflected public attitudes
Frage 13
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The National Fast Day highlighted how pivotal the public's attitudes were in government decisions regarding the Famine and relief
Frage 14
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Who argues that from 1846 and 1847 the British public experienced 'compassion fatigue' towards Irish relief
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Melissa Fegan
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James Donnelly
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O Grada
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Gray
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'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
Frage 16
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All landlords were violent
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[blank_start]James Du Pre[blank_end] with estates in Tyrone reduced his tenants rents by 10 and [blank_start]50[blank_end] %, and offered tenants reduced rates for coal and Meal
Frage 18
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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
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Cork
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Tyrone
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Skibereen
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Kilrush
Frage 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?
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James du Pre
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Lord Gort of Calway
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William Thackery
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Arthur Kennedy