How Did The British Regulate Irish During The 1700's

The factors that led to the Irish to emigrate from Ireland to America in the 1700’s and 1800’s were because of the scares resources. Potato was an important crop in Ireland because it can survive the war and provided their basic food needs. The Irish Famine forced them to make the choice to emigrate to America. The government was no help at all to the Irish because they did not do anything to really help the people going through hard times. Many people in Ireland were in poverty and lived of what they could grow but things diseases affected their crops. They were starving to death. Those working were paid little but most were unemployed. They were not given education in Ireland. The Irish had no hope left in Ireland. They left to America to

In the early 1800s life in Ireland wasn’t easy, Irish citizens got by day to day by farming and relying on the potato. The potato was their main source of food and money. With out the potato the Irish would have nothing. No one was prepared for what was about to happen in 1845, the beginning of the Great Irish Potato Famine.

The purpose of my paper is to show how the Scotch-Irish culture came to be in the United States. There were several things that led the Scotch-Irish to make the perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to America including famine and high rents. It is estimated that 40-55,000 Scotch Irish arrived in America from 1763 to 1775. (Everyculture) The Scotch-Irish is one of the strongest cultures in the United States and their influence has been generous.

The Irish began immigrating to North America in the 1820s, when the lack of jobs and poverty forced them to seek better opportunities elsewhere after the end of the major European wars. When the Europeans could finally stop depending on the Irish for food during war, the investment in Irish agricultural products reduced and the boom was over. After an economic boom, there comes a bust and unemployment was the result. Two-thirds of the people of Ireland depended on potato harvests as a main source of income and, more importantly, food. Then between the years of 1845 and 1847, a terrible disease struck the potato crops. The plague left acre after acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot. The failure of the

In the early 19th century many Irish people immigrated to the United States. There were several reasons why Irish people came to live in America. During the American Industrial Revolution, many immigrants from all over, including Ireland, came to The New World to find new opportunities. There were also great religious opportunities from the largely Roman Catholic influence in Irish culture to the various Protestant religions here. All was well and good as Americans and immigrants worked together to expand the railroad and canals in the New England States, primarily New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York (Irish American Journey). In 1819, 43 percent of immigrants to America were Irish (Immigration). In Ireland at the time, most people were farmers and lived off potato crops for

The start of the Irish’ peoples struggles began when the British came and destroyed their way of life. The Penal laws of 1691 stripped Irish Catholics of their freedoms by taking away their rights to become officers

As they began to immigrate to the United States, the Irish population suffered from various racism. They were categorizes as dangerous, aggressive, temperamental, along other derogatory words. However, with the introduction of new ethnicities, as well as the conformity Irish Americans dealt with, the stereotypes and discriminations regarding this immigrant group often diminished. As many other ethnicities have done, the Irish Americans found themselves conforming to American cultures and beliefs. This process of conformity has been adapted by many immigrating ethnicities, giving up most of their culture and identity to fit the image of what an ideal American is. In the case of Irish immigrants, many of them encountered hostility because of

In the early 1800’s, relations between Ireland and England were tense. The English were building their support by enforcing plantations, pieces of land that once belonged to indigenous Catholic Irish and putting the ownership to the incoming settlers from England and Scotland. Therefore, the impoverished Irish rented their land out from the wealthier owners who resided miles and miles away. In the 1800’s, the majority of Ireland was dependant on potatoes, as it was cheap and easy to grow for the enormous poor population that resided there. In 1845, toxic disease spread through all of Europe’s potatoes, greatly affecting the Irish, who were enormously dependent on the crop. Because the strong belief in the laissez-faire policy, which prevents

By the early 1600’s the British had taken land from the native Irish farmers and given it to their own people, effectively kicking out the Irish with little to no compensation. Under the power of the crown, remaining Irish farmers were required to export crops to the British mainland, and paired with a history of disease and famine, the Irish suffered greatly under Britain’s colonization efforts. In this way, Britain took over Ireland but left the people to fend for themselves, and while not physically

England ruled over Ireland and used Ireland as a source of food. England wanted Irish farmers to grow crops and ship them to England, so they didn’t have much to feed their families. Poor Irish farmers were forced to grow potatoes on the side to feed their families, since they were not desirable to the English. In 1845 the potato crop rotted all over ireland, destroying most people's main source of food. Irish starved to death and got diseases from the rotted

effect on Britain however the outbreak of the Irish potato famine aided in confirming the timing of his actions. Norman Gash claims ‘the Irish famine merely foreclosed the mortgage’ . When Depression hit the country the Anti Corn Law league that had originally been set up in Manchester and lead by Richard Cobden and John Bright began to gain lots of support throughout the country and its use of propaganda such as the penny post heightened their status even further. The increase in popularity caused a great deal of pressure to be put on parliament however although the league had an important role to play in the repeal it, as historian Norman McCord claimed, ‘had the part of a chorus which did not play a decisive part in the action: the decisive

The congestion led to the activation of the Irish Poor laws in 1838 by Great Britain’s Queen Victoria. These laws were enforced in an attempt to promote emigration to areas like the United States and Australia. All the outcomes of the Famine were not necessarily negative. One such incentive was modernization. According to Garvin, “Ireland has been a modernizing society since the Famine, and the tragedy of the Famine was itself the occasion of a great modernizing change” (469). The demand for an institution of education was in order.

The Irish worked on land that was owned by British landowners. The Irish peasants produced large quantities of wheat for the factories in England. Even though the Irish were being evicted from their homes by the landholders, and even though they were starving, the British government was inconsiderate and careless of the problems and the situation that the Irish was in. The Irish were dying from famine and starvation. On page two, paragraph one of “Condition of Ireland, Illustrations of the New Poor Law,” it says, “The ruin is great and complete. The blow that effected the character of the last and best friend of the peasantry, and it has struck them to the heart. They are porstrate and helpless. The once frolicsome people –even the saucy beggars– have disappeared, and given place to wan and haggard objects, who are so resigned to their doom, they they no longer expect relief. One beholds only shrunken frames scarcely covered with flesh –crawling skeletons, who appear to have risen from the graves, and ready to return frightened to that abode.” Which explains the suffrage of the Irish people, the suffrage that the British didn’t care

Ireland 1845, food was suddenly scarce, money was hard to earn, and what little was earned was immediately spent for survival. The people of Ireland had grown up used to missing meals due to crop failure. However, previous crop failures couldn’t compare to the potato famine of 1845. For the next five years, the blight destroyed nearly all the potato crops and killed many Irish. About one million people died during this time in Ireland because of the starvation and disease. About two million fled the lands of Ireland in hopes of escaping the starvation, disease, death, and poverty that had taken over Ireland since the famine. The tenant farmers, who suffered would farm land that belonged to the absentee landlords. They would grow many crops, most of which were very successful. They were only allowed to keep the potato crops for their own; the rest of the crops would be harvested and exported to England. The absentee landlords lived like kings while the tenant farmers were forced to sell everything they owned so they could have money to purchase food to stay alive. When they ran out of things to sell they were then forced to scavenge for food scraps just to escape death for a while longer. The starvation and struggle of the Irish tenant farmers could have been avoided if the absentee landlords hadn’t been so greedy with collecting the rent. England could have come to the aid of the Irish people sooner than they did if they weren’t so interested in staying true to their

against the Protestants. In 1829 Catholics were not suitable for schools throughout Ireland they were only suitable for Protestants. The Catholic peasantry were still called on to pay tithes, and they continued to be harassed by the exactions of tithe-proctors and others, who if the money was not forthcoming, seized the poor peoples cows, furniture, beds, blankets, kettles, or anything they could lay their hands on (History Of Nations 12 Ireland-Scotland p.224).The Catholics were a minority in Ireland much like in the history of Quebec where the English conquered the French, the French were considered lower forms of humans they weren’t up to English standards. As the years past the Catholics started to get back at the Protestants forming the I.R.A. I.R.A. and Protestant killings continued into the early 1900s, Britain began launching multi party- talks with the goal of forging a new assembly for northern Ireland and new relations between the north and Irish republic. By 1999, Protestant and Catholic negotiators had