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Flashcards by Julia falconer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Julia falconer
almost 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Irish and their Work | WC believed Irish were taking their jobs, resulting in a decrease in wage for Scots. However, a lot of Scottish Employers thought that their businesses would not have survived without the influx of Irish Workers, which is particularly true for the coal mining and textiles work. |
| Irish and their Religion | Due to Irish Being Catholic in a predominantly Protestand Scotland, they dealt with a great deal of discrimination and violence. TC Sout claimed in 'A Century of the Scottish People' that 'at first the Irish were distrusted, treated as comic, drunken and superstitious.' |
| Conflict between Irish and Scots | Fights with Irish became regular storied in newspapers and they were seen as uncivilised ad weakened the good character of Scottish Society. As a resuly of this, they turned to the Catholic Church and built their homes around it, seperating them even further from Society. |
| The Irish and Politics | Most did not qualify for voting in the 19th century due to not staying in a single constituency for long enough to meet residential requirements. - They were primarily Labour Supporters as they were the only party that might've delivered on Home Rule. |
| Irish Communities in Scotland | 2 Catholic churches and 3 schools in Dundee served a community of around 20,000 Catholic Irish. in 1876 there were 192 catholic schools which created a divisive society by children attending different schools based on their Religion. |
| Irish and Work | They tended to go into labouring of all kind - they took what they could get (coal mining, dock work) and worked very long hours for low wages which made them unpopular with the Scots as they were selected by employers over scots due to their willingness to work for little. |
| Irish and Inter-marriages | These helped strengthen the Irish Communities. in Greenock, 1851, it was discovered that around 80% of Irish Immigrants married fellow Catholics, further assimilating them from Scottish Society. |
| The Irish and the Railways | Around 1/3 of Navigators in Britain in the 1840s were Irish - in a time when railway building boomed. - Again, the Irish were more willing to work for poor wages than the Scots which caused outrage among Scottish workers. - As a result, the railways took very long to complete, bringing more money out, with little coming back in to the economy. |
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