The Famine

Question 1

Large farmers

Answer 1

Farmers who rented more than 30 acres

Question 2

Small farmers

Answer 2

Farmers who rented between 5 and 30 acres

Question 3

Cottier

Answer 3

A labourer who rent 1 race from a farmer

Question 4

Catholic emancipation

Answer 4

The goal for catholics: that they are allowed to sit in parliament

Question 5

Parliamentary tradition

Answer 5

The use of peaceful political means to achieve political change

Question 6

Potato blight

Answer 6

A fungus that spreads in damp humid weather and destroys potato crops

Question 7

Eviction

Answer 7

When someone is forced out of their home

Question 8

Laissez-faire

Answer 8

The attitude that a government should not interfere in the economy, as it would correct itself eventually

Question 9

Workhouse

Answer 9

A large building where people worked in return for basic accommodation and food

Question 10

Soup kitchen

Answer 10

Places who gave soup to starving people who weren’t in the workhorse

Question 11

Irish diaspora

Answer 11

The scattering of Irish migrants and their descendants across the world