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Date Posted: 19:25:14 09/09/02 Mon
Author: List of Contents
Subject: Curriculum

ABOUT THE CONTENTS

These units follow the Teacher and Student Summary:

I. LAWS THAT ISOLATED AND IMPOVERISHED THE IRISH: This section shows how the Penal Laws, and the Statutes of Kilkenny, reduced the Irish to the status of disenfranchised non-persons in their own country, and it examines how "laissez faire" and repression of trade laws laid the groundwork for the Famine to take place.

II. RACISM: This section provides numerous examples and cartoon illustrations showing how the Irish, as well as Africans and others, were made into racist stereotypes.

III. MASS EVICTION DURING FAMINE: This section shows the extent to which eviction was employed during the Famine, the reasons why it was employed, and its devastating consequences for the suffering people.

IV. MORTALITY RATES AND "THE HORROR": This section shows death rates in relation to Ireland's population at the time of the Famine, and gives personal accounts of Famine scenes to help put a human face on the tragedy.

V. EMIGRATION: DEPARTURE, CROSSING, AND ARRIVAL: This section describes the conditions faced by the famine-stricken people at disembarkation centers, on board "coffin ships" and at quarantine stations.

VI. GENOCIDE: This section gathers together several definitions of genocide, as well as statements made by historical figures and historians, and asks the students to relate facts, opinions and definitions.

VII. POETRY: This section features a selection of poetry inspired by the mass starvation in Ireland.

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