The Government of Ireland During the Famine by https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland en-us 2020-04-10 14:57:02 UTC 2025-12-08 12:32:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Prime Minister: Sir Robert Peel rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502128276
Shipped Indian corn to Ireland 

What was the problem?

They did not know how to cook it
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  • Local funded work schemes employed 140,000
  • Employed men to build public roads, draining systems and harbors
  • Pay was low but helped 700,000 people
  • Deaths were low in 1845
    • ]]>     2020-04-10 15:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502130860     Spring of 1845 rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502139673 "I am sorry to state that... the prospect of the potato crop this year is even more distressing than last year- that the disease has appeared earlier and its ravages are more extensive" ]]> 2020-04-10 15:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502139673 1846 rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502144142 2020-04-10 15:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502144142 Prime Minister: Lord John Russell rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502151745 2020-04-10 15:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502151745 rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502154138
  • He thought Peel was overreacting
  • Reduced the sale of cheap food
  • Provided more employment

    • Why did the employment not work?

    People were starving and the work pace was slow 
    ]]>     2020-04-10 15:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502154138     1847 Prime Minister: Lord John Russell rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502155379
  • Huge snowdrifts 
  • No warm clothes
  • If the father of a family became sick or died after working on the public works, the women or children in the family tried to take over the work
  • This type of work was not useful in helping the people who were starving
  • Refused to interfere with and stop the movement of food to England
  • The Quakers had set up soup kitchens to help the poor Irish people
  • Eventually relied on workhouses and soup kitchens to help the poor.
    • ]]>     2020-04-10 15:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502155379     Ireland was part of the United Kingdom which was known as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland rkeohanebed17 https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502164302 2020-04-10 15:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rkeohanebed17/politicsinireland/wish/502164302