Questão 1
Questão
Who wrote the saying: 'Irish property must pay for Irish poverty'
Responda
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Cormac O Grada
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Robert Peel
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James Donnelly
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Forey
Questão 2
Questão
Who walked around rural Ireland and helped poor people's lives - an example of private charity
Responda
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Asenath Nicholson
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Elizabeth Smith
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The Quakers
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Queen Victoria
Questão 3
Questão
[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]
Responda
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'skeletal'
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suffering
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Asenath Nicholson
Questão 4
Questão
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
Responda
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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
Questão 5
Questão
Which historian is good for understanding British Public Attitudes?
Responda
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Donnelly
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O Grada
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Treveleyan
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Gray
Questão 6
Questão
Which newspaper/media referred to Irish oppressive landlords as reducing tenants to 'serfdom'?
Questão 7
Questão
Which media production wrote that the 'squalid destitute' Irish many 'disgraced Christendom'
Questão 8
Questão
[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].
Questão 9
Questão
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'
Questão 10
Questão
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
Questão 11
Questão
A great deal remains to be uncovered about the British public opinion, especially the middle classes
Questão 12
Questão
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
Questão 13
Questão
The National Fast Day highlighted how pivotal the public's attitudes were in government decisions regarding the Famine and relief
Questão 14
Questão
Who argues that from 1846 and 1847 the British public experienced 'compassion fatigue' towards Irish relief
Responda
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Melissa Fegan
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James Donnelly
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O Grada
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Gray
Questão 15
Questão
'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
Questão 16
Questão
All landlords were violent
Questão 17
Questão
[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
Questão 18
Questão
In what town did Arthur Kennedy, British colonial administrator, report that 15 000 people were evicted by their landlords in one year alone
Responda
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Cork
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Tyrone
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Skibereen
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Kilrush
Questão 19
Questão
What was the name of the landlord who still went bankrupt and didn't evict any of his tenants during the famine?
Responda
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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