Summary of Tim Pat Coogan's The Famine Plot

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The British government was responsible for the state of Ireland, and it was their mismanagement that produced the terrible conditions there. The mere fact that Ireland was so miserable was a complete and irrefutable proof of the mismanagement to which she had been subjected.
#2 The Famine killed millions of people in Ireland, and it was also the cause of emigration. Ireland became a country to leave.
#3 The first attempt at colonization of Ireland was made by the Normans, who were invited to Ireland by the Irish king Diarmuid McMurragh. The pope of the day, Adrian, granted Henry II a Papal Bull, legitimizing the Norman invasion. The Irish were to be saved from the barbarity of their ways by a combination of Vatican directive and Norman steel.
#4 The Battle of the Boyne in 1690 marked the end of Catholic power in Ireland, and it is still celebrated by the Protestants of northeastern Ireland. The pope sought a Williamite victory, and he contributed some three and a half million in today’s euro values toward the purchase of swords and muskets to use against the Catholics.

Sujets

• Colonisation
• Histoire
• Ireland
• Stephen Ireland
• History
• Europe
• Catholicisme

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 17 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822514065
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tim Pat Coogan's The Famine Plot
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The British government was responsible for the state of Ireland, and it was their mismanagement that produced the terrible conditions there. The mere fact that Ireland was so miserable was a complete and irrefutable proof of the mismanagement to which she had been subjected.

#2

The Famine killed millions of people in Ireland, and it was also the cause of emigration. Ireland became a country to leave.

#3

The first attempt at colonization of Ireland was made by the Normans, who were invited to Ireland by the Irish king Diarmuid McMurragh. The pope of the day, Adrian, granted Henry II a Papal Bull, legitimizing the Norman invasion. The Irish were to be saved from the barbarity of their ways by a combination of Vatican directive and Norman steel.

#4

The Battle of the Boyne in 1690 marked the end of Catholic power in Ireland, and it is still celebrated by the Protestants of northeastern Ireland. The pope sought a Williamite victory, and he contributed some three and a half million in today’s euro values toward the purchase of swords and muskets to use against the Catholics.

#5

Ireland was a poverty-stricken land in the nineteenth century, and famine was a frequent visitor. The country obtained a degree of legislative independence from London in the eighteenth century, but it was still completely subservient to its older sister in London.

#6

The Irish Volunteers made it clear that they would only obey laws passed by the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland. They were primarily concerned with the interests of the big landowners, but they did show an improvement in the economy.

#7

The 1798 rebellion gave the British government the pretext they needed to stamp out Dublin’s upstart parliament. The government of William Pitt the Younger used bribery on an unprecedented scale to cajole the Irish parliamentarians to vote for an Act of Union that subsumed the Irish parliament into the Westminster parliament.

#8

The Act of Union with Ireland in 1800 reduced the Irish electorate from 216,002 to just 37,000. The conditions in Ireland of which Earl Grey spoke are described in the next chapter.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Irish peasantry were the detritus of conquest, as the majority of them lived in conditions that were not suitable for human habitation. The law was on the landlords’ side, and the renters of land were tenants at will who could be evicted with ease.

#2

The Famine affected Ireland in many ways, from the way the land was divided to the way the people lived. It compounded the problems caused by early and improvident marriage. The people would go about their neighborhoods begging or resorting to stratagems such as boiling the rape plant, which grew wild in the fields, as a vegetable.

#3

The Act of Union, which brought about the unification of Ireland and England, led to a brain drain in Ireland, as many talented people left the country. The Catholic population probably outnumbered the Protestant population by 20 Catholics to 1 Protestant.

#4

The Irish population was dominated by the viceroy and the chief secretary, who controlled the country. The landlords, who were few in number, spent their income on extravagant lifestyles in London or on the Continent. The peasantry and the people generally had a reputation for hospitality.

#5

The Irish were not known for their civility, and this reputation stemmed from their agrarian violence and faction fighting. The Catholic clergy received no money from the State, and so they lived solely on what the people provided them. The Protestant clergy, on the other hand, received their incomes from the State.

#6

Agrarian violence, and its secret societies, were widespread in Ireland.