Junior Cycle History IRL : Famine in Ireland: Source E

Maighréad Ní Dhiomhaín

Question

Source E

Maighréad Ní Dhiomhaín, b.1866, Drimoleague, Co Cork.

As a result of the Famine many families were broken up. This was in a good way due to the tempting offers to emigrate. This was what was called 'Free Emigration'. Everyone who left paid a pound and the English government paid the rest. This was freely accepted for years after the Famine with the result that it was always the young members of the family that left. When they became well off they persuaded the parents to go. It was usually to America or Australia they emigrated. It often happened in the more mountainous districts of West Cork that only the aged parents were left to keep the little homestead. They were often unable to pay the rent except they got help from across and the result was that evictions were numerous. The most of the landlords were of no help to the suffering people. They oftentimes took from them the solitary cow or goat which was their sole support. If a family was suspected of receiving money from America the rent was sure to be raised, so the poorer people got no chance anyway.

B. 
(i) Mention two effects of emigration on the people of West Cork. (4)

(ii) "The most of the landlords were of no help to the suffering people." Give two pieces of evidence to support that view. (4)

Source E Maighréad Ní Dhiomhaín, b.1866, Drimoleague, Co Cork - Junior Cycle History - Question B - 2006

Worked Solution & Example Answer:Source E Maighréad Ní Dhiomhaín, b.1866, Drimoleague, Co Cork - Junior Cycle History - Question B - 2006

Mention two effects of emigration on the people of West Cork.

"The most of the landlords were of no help to the suffering people." Give two pieces of evidence to support that view.

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