Famine impacts

What was the population of Ireland in the 1840's?

• 4 million

• 5 million

• 8 million

• 10 million

Who owned most of the land in Ireland during this time?

• Landlords

• Tenant farmers

• Cottiers

• Peasants

The Irish people who emigrated during the famine became known as the:

• Fighting Irish

• Coffin Shippers

• Irish Diaspora

What disease spread easily in overcrowded living spaces during the famine?

• Pleuresy

• Covid-19

• Typhus

• Smallpox

What type of manmade waterways were developed in the nineteenth century which Irish people were employed to build in Britain

• Canals

• Streams

• Moats

• Lakes

How many people in Britain today have an Irish-born grandparent?

• 3 million

• 4 million

• 6 million

• 8 million

Many Irish people who fled to Engfland and the US found work as

• Doctors

• Dockers

• Dog walkers

• Dobbers

When families come to join their families abroad and settle in a foreign country this is known as

How many Irish people died as a result of the Famine?

• About 100,000 people

• About 500,000 people

• About 700,000 people

• About 1,000,000 people

What changes in farming methods took place after the famine? (2 answers)

• Farmers moved away from tillage to pasture

• Framers planted more pumpkins

• Framers moved away from pasture to tillage

• There was an end to the subdivision of land