Coursework: The Great Famine

... Coursework: The Great Famine 1.What does Source A tell us about the Great Famine? Source A provides with information on the famine. It tells us that Robert Peel was concerned about the Famine and was considering whether it was his, the Governments fault or whether it was to do with something else i.e. blight. "Are you to sit in cabinet and consider how much diarrhoea and bloody flux and dysentery, a people can bear is becomes necessary for you to pride them with food?" So he set up the Corn Laws, a set up to keep the farmers in profit by keeping the corn artificially high in price so the local Catholics who would grow there own potatoes and sell on the particularly good ones, the better Corn. Here is a quotation from Sir Charles Edward Trevelyon, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Irish Famine relief. 1846 "The problem of Ireland

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