How should we respond to Famine:Ireland in the 1840s
History & citizenship at Key Stage 2
Ireland in SchoolsUniversity of Birmingham BASS University of Birmingham
For a PowerPoint overview of the Famine, with songs and music - suitable for use in primary as well as secondary schools:http://cid-1c89246df096624a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Famine|_Secondary.ppt?wa=wsignin1.0
Watermark‘The Spectre’
1851
Source 1A‘The Ejectment’ILN, 18/12/1848
Blighted potato plants & potatoes
Source 2D‘Boy and Girl at
Cahera’ILN, 20/12/1847
Source 2FRegional
variations of the impact of the
Famine
Source 3B‘Mullins Hut’
ILN, 20/02/1847
Source 3C‘Bridget
O’Donnell’ILN, 22/12/1849
Source 3E‘Defending their
Home’Pictorial Times
02/01/1847
Source 3F‘Miss Kennedy’
ILN, 22/12/1849
Source 3K‘Union Is Strength’
Punch, 22/12/1849
John Bull to Irish farmer:‘Here are a few things to go on with, Brother, and I'll soon put you in a way to earn your own living.'
Source 3L‘Soup Kitchen,
Cork’ILN, 16/01/1847
Source 3M‘Leaving Ireland’ILN, 10/05/1851
Source 3N‘Sale of Indian
Corn’ILN, 04/12/1846
Source 3O‘Funeral at
Skibbereen’ILN, 30/01/1847
Source 4A‘Cholera Victim’The Guardian,
25/11/2008
Source 5A‘After the
Ejectment’ILN, 16/12/1848