economic Factors

What: To consider the causes, course and impact of the Economic hardship in Ireland mid-nineteenth century.
How: Write and account of the famine from the perspective of a witness to the famine.

Ireland's Economy before the great famine

Summaries the key Economic changes that occurred in Ireland between 1800 to 1845. 

Land ownership

Using the information on Page 208 from the textbook (Todd and Bottaro, En. 1) create a hierarchy diagram (triangle) to demonstrate landownership in Ireland. Demonstrate the land and payments that flowed between the different groups.

The great famine 1845-1849

Write an account of the Famine during the period 1845 - 1849 from one of the following perspectives:
  • The Chief Secretary for Ireland
  • Valentine Brown Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry
  • A Protestant landowner in Munster
  • A Cottier in Skibereen
​Understanding perspectives is a key part of the IB Diploma in History. You must consider the OPVL of your author and ensure that the source you create is as credible as possible and consider access and vantage point to the situation as it unfolded between 1845 and 1849.

The impact of the great Famine

wEB BASED resources:

Topics: The Great Famine

National Archives

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University contains the world's largest collection of Great Hunger-related art by noted contemporary Irish and Irish American artists as well as a number of period paintings by some of Ireland's most important 19th-century artists.

The Irish Famine

A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation. Ideology helped the ruling class avoid grappling with the problem of mass starvation. Jim Donnelly describes how.

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