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Ireland
crossword quiz 10/19/06
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10th Grade
10/18/2006

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absentee landlords
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English settlers who owned land in Ireland, but did not live there
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Daniel O'Connell
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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
Definition
allowed Irish Catholics to vote and hold political office
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home rule
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local self-government
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Fenian Brotherhood
Definition
irish militants who wanted to liberate Ireland from Brititsh rule
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Charles Stewart Parnell
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learder of the Fenian Brotherhood who rallied Irish members of Parliament to press for home rule
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Irish Question
Definition
Britian's question of what to do about the Ireland situation.
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Gladstone
Definition
prime minister who pushed for reforms in Ireland
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Lough Sheelin
Definition
Irish song about the famine
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Ulster
Definition
the northern part of ireland that is predominently protestant and is part of the United Kingdom
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Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Definition
catholic terrorists who bombed ulster during the troubles
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Ulster Defense Force (UDF)
Ulster Defense Army (UDA)
Definition
protestant groups that fought the IRA during the troubles
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The Troubles
Definition
period of fighting in Ulster
1972-1998
3,600 killed
36,000 injured
between Catholics and Protestants
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Good Friday 1998
Definition
peace accord
ended the troubles
Gerry Adams promoted peaceful tactics
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Saint Patrick
Definition
came to ireland and Cristianized it in the 430s
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Alfred the Great
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English ruler who invaded Ireland in the 1100s
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Battle of the Boyne
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battle which led to protestant rule of ireland
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Wolfetone
Definition
fought against Britian and was killed
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Irish Famine
Great Hunger
Great Starvation
Irish Diaspora
Definition
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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Charles Trevelyan
Definition
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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Fenian men
Definition
rebels in the 1850s
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Sinn Fein
Definition
"We, Ourselves"
motto of catholics
peace movement in IRA
Led by Gerry Adams
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Padraic Pearse
Definition
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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Easter Rebellion
Definition
1916 action of catholic Padraic Pearse taking over GPO, which didn't last for long
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Germany
Definition
the country that helped Ireland break away from Britian in 1922
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"A Nation Once Again"
Definition
nationalistic song sung by Irish Catholics
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Bloody Sunday
Definition
many Irish people killed in 1972 with a bomb in Ulster by the catholics
led to the troubles
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Bobby Sands
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IRA member who went to maze prison and killed himself by starvation
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Gerry Adams
Definition
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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Maze Prison
Definition
prison where catholic terrorists (IRA members) went when arrested
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decommission
Definition
turn in weapons, Gerry Adams wanted this to happen to IRA
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Ian Paisley
Definition
anti-catholic who started the DUP
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Democratic Union Party (DUP)
Definition
Started by Ian Paisley
a protestant group loyal to england
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Unionist/Loyalist
Definition
Irish protestants loyal to England
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"One faith, One crown"
Definition
protestant motto
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John Hume
Definition
catholic who discussed alliance and had Good Friday peace accord
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John Tribble
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protestant who discussed alliance and had Good Friday peace accord
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Provos
Definition
rebels, what they're called today
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Good Friday Accords
Definition
peace accords set up by Hume and Tribble to discuss peacefully issues between the Irish catholics and protestants
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real IRA
Definition
the IRA that still wants to fight with violence on behalf of the catholics
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Royal Ulster Constabulary
Definition
RUC
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Black and Tans
Definition
Brits sent to fight the IRA
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Daile Ireanns
Definition
Irish parliament
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Static electricity from new trains
the will of God - punishment
vapors from the middle of the earth
Definition
reasons that Irish people believed caused the Great Hunger
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South and Central America
in ships/across george sea from England
Definition
where the fungus came from
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Molly Maguires
Definition
a protestant secret society that acted with violence against all associated with Catholics
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Lord Slago
Definition
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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weather
Definition
contributed to the misery of the potato blight
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coffin ships
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ships that took Irish to America where 20% of people on board died on journey
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road building projects
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projects imposed upon irish during famine in order to work for their food
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workhouses
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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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1845-1852
Definition
when the great hunger took place
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late blight
Definition
the disease of the potatoes, caused by a fungus
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famine fever
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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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Thomas Taylor
Definition
investigated the cause of the potato disease correctly
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