Political
A key reason people wanted leave Ireland in the 1840s
What is the Famine?
Number of Irish emigrants 1801-1921
What is c. eight million?
What is remittance?
Type of text the Devine reading originates from
What is a book?
The Authors surnames
What is Fitzpatrick and Devine?
Major change to land management law worsened conditions for rural poor in both countries
What is the ban of small-holding creation?
A key benefit to the Catholic Church of sustained Irish emigration
What is rapid growth of Catholicism?
The structure of the Scottish economy during the nineteenth century
What is industrialised economy?
Type of text the Fitzpatrick reading originates from
What is a pamphlet?
What is a paradox?
The labour problem Scottish emigration caused for Scottish society
What is a "brain drain"?
Australian-Irish were more likely to bring over...
What is friends or distant connections?
Critical technological shift that shortened the Atlantic crossing from six weeks to one
What is the transport revolution?
"Growing up in Ireland meant... "
What is "preparing oneself to leave it"?
These Irish organisations were enabled by the British state to fund the emigration of nearly 45,000 "paupers and potential paupers".
What is the Boards of Guardians?
Fraction of Scottish returning to Scotland in the later nineteenth century
What is one-third?
Amount sent back the the UK by North American emigrants between 1848 and 1887
What is £34,000,000?
A key characteristic of Fitzpatrick's style of analysis to support his argument
What is quantitive analysis?
By 1900 the economic system in the west of Scotland could be known as...
What is the "Workshop of the British Empire"?
This 1823-1825 state scheme removed over 2,300 people from Munster to Canada to relieve land hunger and "agarian discontent"
What is the Peter Robinson scheme?
The year Scotland topped the comparative emigration table
What is 1913
Percent lower Scottish wages were compared to English wages in 1860
What is 20%?
Devine relies on comparative tables compiled by this scholar to rank Scotland, Ireland and Norway at the top of European emigration table between 1861-1913
Who is Dudley Baines?
This social and inheritance structure in Ireland meant surplus children predominantly emigrated
What is the "stem family" system?