How should we respond to Famine:Ireland in the 1840s

History & citizenship at Key Stage 3

Ireland in SchoolsUniversity of Birmingham BASS University of Birmingham

For a PowerPoint overview of the Famine, with songs and music:http://cid-1c89246df096624a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Famine|_Secondary.ppt?wa=wsignin1.0

Watermark‘Orphan Girl’

1851

Source 1A‘The Ejectment’ILN, 18/12/1848

Blighted potato plants & potatoes

Source 2D‘Boy and Girl at

Cahera’ILN, 20/12/1847

Source 2FRegional

variations of the impact of the

Famine

Source 3A‘Festive Group

Dancing’1820s

Source 3E‘Early Plantations

of Ireland’

Source 3K‘Land Owned by

Catholics’

Source 4B‘Mullins Hut’

ILN, 20/02/1847

Source 4C‘Bridget

O’Donnell’ILN, 22/12/1849

Source 4E‘Defending their

Home’Pictorial Times

02/01/1847

Source 4F‘Miss Kennedy’

ILN, 22/12/1849

Source 4K‘Union Is Strength’

Punch, 22/12/1849

John Bull to Irish farmer:‘Here are a few things to go on with, Brother, and I'll soon put you in a way to earn your own living.'

Source 4L‘Soup Kitchen,

Cork’ILN, 16/01/1847

Source 4M‘Leaving Ireland’ILN, 10/05/1851

Source 4N‘Sale of Indian

Corn’ILN, 04/12/1846

Source 4O‘Funeral at

Skibbereen’ILN, 30/01/1847

Source 5A‘Cholera Victim’The Guardian,

25/11/2008

Source 6A‘After the

Ejectment’ILN, 16/12/1848