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Great Irish Famine Exam (Week 5 - Relief in Practice: Landlords, Poor Law and Charity) Quiz on Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz, created by Charlotte Peacock on 09/01/2017.

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Landlords, Private Charity and Poor Law Historiography Quiz

Question 1 of 19

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Who wrote the saying: 'Irish property must pay for Irish poverty'

Select one of the following:

  • Cormac O Grada

  • Robert Peel

  • James Donnelly

  • Forey

Explanation

Question 2 of 19

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Who walked around rural Ireland and helped poor people's lives - an example of private charity

Select one of the following:

  • Asenath Nicholson

  • Elizabeth Smith

  • The Quakers

  • Queen Victoria

Explanation

Question 3 of 19

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

uses strong rhetoric and imagery to appeal to others to provide private charity, such as describing the suffering as '' and

Explanation

Question 4 of 19

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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

Select one of the following:

  • Robert Peel

  • Sir John Russell

  • Charles Trevelyan

  • James Donnelly

  • Elizabeth Smith

  • The Times

Explanation

Question 5 of 19

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Which historian is good for understanding British Public Attitudes?

Select one of the following:

  • Donnelly

  • O Grada

  • Treveleyan

  • Gray

Explanation

Question 6 of 19

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Which newspaper/media referred to Irish oppressive landlords as reducing tenants to 'serfdom'?

Select one of the following:

  • Donnelly

  • The Illustrated London News

  • The Mirror

  • The Times

  • Punch Magazine

Explanation

Question 7 of 19

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Which media production wrote that the 'squalid destitute' Irish many 'disgraced Christendom'

Select one of the following:

  • The Times

  • The Illustrated London News

  • The Mirror

  • The Daily Express

Explanation

Question 8 of 19

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( The Journals of Elizabeth Smith, Asenath Nicholson, The Times extracts ) are useful for understanding the views of a ( racist, Well off, Philanthropic ) British Protestant Irish Landlord - referring to her tenants and the Irish more broadly as 'other' - grotesque 'miserable ( creatures, poor, people, serfs )' - dehumanising and ( animalistic, other, catholic ).

Explanation

Question 9 of 19

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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'

Select one of the following:

  • The Times

  • The Mirror

  • The Ireland

  • The Illustrated London News

Explanation

Question 10 of 19

1

Which three does Donnelly attribute as the British government's biggest failures

Select one or more of the following:

  • Refusal to stop grain exports

  • Not preventing the evictions of half a million people

  • Poor Laws

  • Blaming the landlords for all the problems

  • Laissez-fair approach

Explanation

Question 11 of 19

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A great deal remains to be uncovered about the British public opinion, especially the middle classes

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 19

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What does Peter Gray argue?

Select one of the following:

  • The importance of providentialism for shaping British attitudes and desire to help Ireland

  • That the Irish economy could be easily restructured after the famine, reshaping agriculture

  • That the famine was a short-term evil for a long term improvement

  • That the media heavily shaped and reflected public attitudes

Explanation

Question 13 of 19

1

The National Fast Day highlighted how pivotal the public's attitudes were in government decisions regarding the Famine and relief

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 19

1

Who argues that from 1846 and 1847 the British public experienced 'compassion fatigue' towards Irish relief

Select one of the following:

  • Melissa Fegan

  • James Donnelly

  • O Grada

  • Gray

Explanation

Question 15 of 19

1

'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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 19

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All landlords were violent

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 19

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

with estates in Tyrone reduced his tenants rents by 10 and %, and offered tenants reduced rates for coal and Meal

Explanation

Question 18 of 19

1

In what town did Arthur Kennedy, British colonial administrator, report that 15 000 people were evicted by their landlords in one year alone

Select one of the following:

  • Cork

  • Tyrone

  • Skibereen

  • Kilrush

Explanation

Question 19 of 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?

Select one of the following:

  • James du Pre

  • Lord Gort of Calway

  • William Thackery

  • Arthur Kennedy

Explanation

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