The Migrants Dictionary Migrant someone who moves from
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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.
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.
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.
DISASTER!!! Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine. INCREASE in Scotland’s population – IRISH IMMIGRATION (1)How many people emigrated? (2)What did survivors live on? (3)What did many die of? (4)When did the famine take place? (5)Why do you think the Irish did not want to talk about the “Great Famine”? (1)1 million (2)Nettles and grass (3)Exposure. Many sold their clothes for food (4)1840 s (5)Your opinion.
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.
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 1840 s 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.
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.
