1.e. WHAT POLITICAL FACTORS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN IRELAND?
Using the Lancaster University website research the impacts on society of the famine and make a list of the Social impacts, use quantitive data to support the points on your list:
Troubled Geographies: Two centuries of Religious Division in Ireland
Ireland is the only developed country whose population has declined since the early nineteenth century. This decline started with the Great Famine of the late 1840s which was followed by several decades of less spectacular decline or stagnation. The Irish potato crop was first affected by blight in the autumn of 1845.
The following topics are:
- Daniel O’Connell and The Repeal Association
- ‘The Land Question’, The Irish Tenant League and the Independent Irish Party
- Young Ireland and the The Irish Confederation and the rebellion of 1848 (2)
- The Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish Republican Brotherhood to 1866
You should make sure that you include the key facts, events, dates and people. Further, what did it contribute to developing an Independence movement?
tHE REPEAL association and the 'monster meetings'
yOUNG IRELAND
Daniel O'Connell and the Young Irelanders
On the 11 July 1846 Daniel O'Connell presented his "Peace Resolutions" demanding the absolute renunciation of the use of physical force in pursuit of national aims by all members of his Loyal National Repeal Association. The Young Ireland faction, a group of the most dynamic and influential Repealers of the younger generation, were unwilling to accept this principle unconditionally.
tHE LAND QUESTION AFTER 1850
Troubled Geographies: Two centuries of Religious Division in Ireland
It is clear that the Great Famine of 1845-51 had a profound effect on Ireland, leaving its mark on a significantly altered and diminished society. It is also clear that the Famine's impact was not uniform across the entire island.