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| English settlers who owned land in Ireland, but did not live there |
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"the Liberator"
organized Irish Catholic League and held mass meetings to demand repeal of unfair laws |
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| Catholic Emancipation Act |
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| allowed Irish Catholics to vote and hold political office |
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| irish militants who wanted to liberate Ireland from Brititsh rule |
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| learder of the Fenian Brotherhood who rallied Irish members of Parliament to press for home rule |
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| Britian's question of what to do about the Ireland situation. |
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| prime minister who pushed for reforms in Ireland |
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| Irish song about the famine |
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| the northern part of ireland that is predominently protestant and is part of the United Kingdom |
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| Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
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| catholic terrorists who bombed ulster during the troubles |
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Ulster Defense Force (UDF)
Ulster Defense Army (UDA) |
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| protestant groups that fought the IRA during the troubles |
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period of fighting in Ulster
1972-1998
3,600 killed
36,000 injured
between Catholics and Protestants |
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peace accord
ended the troubles
Gerry Adams promoted peaceful tactics |
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| came to ireland and Cristianized it in the 430s |
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| English ruler who invaded Ireland in the 1100s |
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| battle which led to protestant rule of ireland |
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| fought against Britian and was killed |
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Irish Famine
Great Hunger
Great Starvation
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caused by potato blight
1 million people died
1.5 million people emigrated - called Potato people
people killed by pnumonia and disease
lived in work houses where diseases spread |
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| Englishman who went to fix "Irish Question" and made people work because he thought people should be industrial, not idol farmers which was the work of the devil. |
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"We, Ourselves"
motto of catholics
peace movement in IRA
Led by Gerry Adams |
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| catholic who took over GPO (Grand Post Office) and proclaimed it a new Ireland, but was killed for his actions on the Easter Rebellion |
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| 1916 action of catholic Padraic Pearse taking over GPO, which didn't last for long |
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| the country that helped Ireland break away from Britian in 1922 |
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| nationalistic song sung by Irish Catholics |
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many Irish people killed in 1972 with a bomb in Ulster by the catholics
led to the troubles |
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| IRA member who went to maze prison and killed himself by starvation |
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IRA terrorist who went to maze prison
had epiphany to bring Ireland together in peaceful way
led Sinn Fein
supported 1998 Good Friday peace accord |
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| prison where catholic terrorists (IRA members) went when arrested |
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| turn in weapons, Gerry Adams wanted this to happen to IRA |
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| anti-catholic who started the DUP |
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| Democratic Union Party (DUP) |
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Started by Ian Paisley
a protestant group loyal to england |
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| Irish protestants loyal to England |
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| catholic who discussed alliance and had Good Friday peace accord |
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| protestant who discussed alliance and had Good Friday peace accord |
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| rebels, what they're called today |
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| peace accords set up by Hume and Tribble to discuss peacefully issues between the Irish catholics and protestants |
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| the IRA that still wants to fight with violence on behalf of the catholics |
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| Royal Ulster Constabulary |
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| Brits sent to fight the IRA |
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Static electricity from new trains
the will of God - punishment
vapors from the middle of the earth |
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| reasons that Irish people believed caused the Great Hunger |
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South and Central America
in ships/across george sea from England |
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| where the fungus came from |
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| a protestant secret society that acted with violence against all associated with Catholics |
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englighted landlord who took it upon himself to feed Irish people in Westport house.
eventually refused to evict, even in order to get food while he was starving |
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| contributed to the misery of the potato blight |
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| ships that took Irish to America where 20% of people on board died on journey |
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| projects imposed upon irish during famine in order to work for their food |
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put people closer together and spread disease quicker, but people had to go there to get food
landowners couldn't go there unless they gave up thier land |
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| when the great hunger took place |
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| the disease of the potatoes, caused by a fungus |
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| common name for louse-bourne typhus or louse-bourne relapsing fever that killed most people during the famine |
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| investigated the cause of the potato disease correctly |
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