ImPoRtAnT TeRmS To KnOw: ChApTeR 12 A disease that destroys the potato plant.
Absentee landlords
Subsistence farmers Cottier Conacre
Workhouses Evict
Landowners who did not live on the land and used middle men (agents) to run their estates.
Farmers who only produced enough food to live on. A poor farm labourer in Ireland.
Rented land on which potatoes were grown.
Buildings where the poor and starving of Ireland could come for food and accommodation in return for work.
To remove people from their homes for not paying their rent.
Public works schemes Building works set up to provide employment for the poor and starving in Ireland during the Famine.
Laissez-faire Emigration Coffin ships
Diaspora
The belief that the government should not interfere with the economy. Leaving one country to settle in another.
The term given to the ships that brought emigrants from Ireland to America, Canada and Australia. These ships had very poor conditions on board and many people died as a result.
A group of people who have emigrated from a country or region.