many people lost their lives. Ireland produced enough food for twice it’s

population, yet thousands of Irish people died of starvation. The Irish lived

descent lives until the English came and settled in Ireland. The major conflict was

the differences of religions, the majority of Ireland was Catholic, but the new

English settlers were Protestant. This conflict lead to complete chaos and

In the 1690’s the English developed Penal Laws to repress the Irish. These

laws basically took away most all of the Irish families rights. They could not own a

weapon, they were forbidden to receive an education, enter a profession, vote, hold

public office, practice their religion, attend Catholic worship, engage in trade or

commerce, purchase land, lease land, receive

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Law Act, Penal Laws, Famine Ireland, British British, Catholic English, Laissez-faire Britain, Ireland Starved”, Irish British, irish evicted homes, irish evicted, receive education, evicted homes, didn’t care, food shelter, irish suffered,