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The Irish Famine

Part 1

  1. What does source A tell us about the Great Famine?

Source A tells us that the Great Famine was dreadful and according to Sir Robert Peel a past British Prime Minister the cabinet was considering not giving the public any food and allowing their diarrhoea, blood flux and dysentery to carry on until near death.

  1. Identify in Source B the following:
  1. A statement of fact
  2. An example of the authors opinion

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This is a statement of fact “Deaths, I regret to say, innumerable for starvation are occurring every day.” Through this he is saying, many people are dying of starvation every day.

An opinion of his would be ‘removed as they are from these scenes of heart rending distress, can have no idea of them and don’t appear to dive themselves much trouble about them’

         

  1. Source C is part of a speech made by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. Does it mean that it is reliable?

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