Migrant someone who moves from place to place Immigrant someone who migrates to another country Often permanently Emigrant someone who leaves their native country Exile someone who has been expelled from their native country ID: 483562
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The Migrant’s Dictionary...
Migrant
– someone who moves from place to place.
Immigrant
– someone who migrates to another country. Often permanently.
Emigrant
– someone who leaves their native country.
Exile
– someone who has been expelled from their native country.Slide2
1846-
Death
is in every hovel, disease and famine are affecting the young and old, the strong and weak, the mother and the infant. The husband dies by the side of the wife and she doesn’t realise that he has died. The same rags cover the skeletons of the dead and the skeleton shape of the living. Rats devour the corpse and there is no energy among the living to drive them from their horrid feast. Slide3
Source:
Irish parents are too fond of their children, who all want a piece of ground to grow food. As a result, farms which were originally big enough to support a man and his family have been divided from generation to generation. From this endless division, people end up with a piece of ground so small they are always in a state between barely having enough and starving.
Johann Kohl, 1844 – a German writer and traveller.Slide4
DISASTER!!! Potato FamineSlide5
How many people emigrated?
What did survivors live on?
What did many die of?
When did the famine take place?
Why do you think the Irish did not want to talk about the “Great Famine”?
1 million
Nettles and grass
Exposure. Many sold their clothes for food
1840sYour opinion.
The Irish Potato Famine.
INCREASE in Scotland’s population – IRISH IMMIGRATIONSlide6
Source C: Report on Rural Distress, 1881
If there was the slightest crop failure in the West of Ireland, smallholders would be unable to live on what they grow. In the Spring, they plant potatoes, cut turf and go to Scotland to earn money. In the autumn they return home to gather their crops, and stack their turf. They then spend the winter in miserable hovels without any work. Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10
A large number of potatoes can be grown on a small amount of land
Over half the population of Ireland in the middle of the 19
th
century depended on their potatoes crop for survival
It is a simple crop to grow, very filling
Potatoes do not keep long. A good crop one year cannot be kept for the next year.
If the crop failed, people did not have enough money to buy other food.
In the 1840s the potato crop FAILED!
Using this information and the information on PAGE 5 & 6 (Sources 1.2 & 1.4), describe IN YOUR OWN WORDS the importance of the potato crop to the Irish in the mid-19
th
century.Slide11
Skibbereen
& the effects of the Potato Blight
1841 – 1851, Irish census data showed population fell from 8.2 million to 6.6 million.
1847 – 1852, there were over 90,000 evictions. Police and soldiers were used by the government. The crisis was used as an excuse by many landlords to take away people’s homes.