La Famine En Irelande

IRELAND Queen Victoria I INTRODUCTION Victoria (queen) (1819-1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (Her reign was the longest of any monarch in British history and came to be known as the Victorian era. Queen Victoria was the official head of state not only of the United Kingdom but also of the growing worldwide British Empire, which included Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, and large parts of Africa. As the personal embodiment

d'Europe continentale du mildiou, un parasite appelé Phytophtora infestans, alliée à l'humidité du climat, provoqua une forte chute, de l'ordre de 40 %1, de la production de pomme de terre en 1845 et entraîna une famine de grande ampleur. Contrairement à ce qui s'était passé pendant la famine de 1780, les ports irlandais restèrent ouverts sous la pression des négociants protestants et l'Irlande continua à exporter de la nourriture. Alors que dans des régions de l'île des familles entières mouraient

d'Aubrenon. Dès le milieu du XVIe siècle, des pêcheurs provenant du sud de l'Irlande sont venus à Terre-Neuve pour y faire des prises. La plus grande immigration des Irlandais au Canada, et de loin, a eu lieu vers le milieu du XIXe siècle. La grande famine de 1847, causée principalement par le manque de nourriture, a été la cause du décès de plus d'un million d'Irlandais. Cela a aussi été le motif de l'exode massif de centaines de milliers d'Irlandais vers l'Amérique du Nord. Le Canada a été la terre

432 Traditional date for the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland. 700-800 Irish monasticism reaches its zenith. 795 Full-scale Viking invasion. 1014 Brian Boru/ defeats Vikings at Clontarf, but is murdered. 1169 Dermot MacMurrough, exiled king of Leinster, invites help from 'Strongbow'. 1172 Pope decrees that Hery II of England is feudal lord of Ireland. 1366 Statues of Kilkenny belatedly forbid intermarriage of English and Irish. Gaelic culture unsuccessfully suppressed. 1534-40

Ireland was in the middle of the 19th century an agricultural nation and had 8 million inhabitants who were among the poorest in the western world; most of them were living in single-roomed windowless cabins (as in the picture in the document). Their lands were owned by affluent protestant landlords. The potato, was introduced in Ireland at the end of the 16th century, by the 19th, it became the staple crop for the Irish, because it was easy to grow and the yields were high enough to feed Ireland’s

British Empire 2) The Commonwealth 3) Britain and Ireland? A “special” political relationship 4) Britain and Ireland: economic links 5) British and Irish EU memberships 6) The UK, Ireland and Structural Funds 7) Partnerships and competition in the European and global environment 8) British and Irish regional challenges in an enlarged Europe 9) Foreign exchange and Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and in Ireland 10) British and Irish company structures 11) Key

des grands propriétaires protestants, non résidents, qui les louent à des tarifs élevés. I) Une crise agricole désastreuse En 1845, une maladie de la pomme de terre touche l’Irlande. La production chute de plus d’un tiers provoquant la Grande Famine. Des familles sont expulsées de leurs terres et meurent de faim alors que le pays continue d’exporter des denrées agricoles. Un quart de la population irlandaise va quitter le pays, faisant de l’Irlande, le seul pays européen dont la population

COLANTONIO Laurent, « La Grande Famine en Irlande (1846-1851) : objet d'histoire, enjeu de mémoire», Revue Historique, n°644, octobre 2007, p. 899 - 925. Laurent Colantonio est docteur en histoire. Il est membre de la Société d'histoire de la révolution de 1848 et de la société française des études irlandaises. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs articles en relation avec sa thèse : • Daniel O'Connell : un irlandais au coeur du débat politique français, des dernières années de la Restauration

themselves but their rebellion was crushed by Elisabeth I. In 1630 Ireland was deprived of its leaders and they were completely at the mercy of England.There was an intensification of the land confiscation and a massive arrival of protestant colons. In 1649 they tried to recover their independence but they had to face Oliver Cromwell. They were massacred. Depending on the sources ⅓ to ½ of the population died. Ireland was under the authority and laws dictated by England, the lands in the

immigrating from Eastern Europe, Ireland or Italy to the USA? (1890-1900-1905): People were poor and hungry, there were unemployed and persecuted. 4. Why did immigrants choose to go to the USA ? The immigrants choose to go to the USA because : * there were jobs and opportunities * they were no persecuted * the USA was a democracy * it was the land of plenty * the religion was a free choice 5. What happened in Ireland in the 1900’s? A famine. Poor harvests in one year to