Ireland and the Great Hunger Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• potato: half of ireland's population survived off this crop.
• blight: what the disease that destroyed irish farmers' crops was called at the time.
• charles: the man put in charge of helping the irish was sir _ trevelyan
• million: the amount of irish people who died in the famine was over 1 _
• grain: this was bought by the british government to feed the starving irish.
• west: the areas hit worst by the famine was in the south and _ of ireland.
• skibbereen: a town in southern ireland devastated by the famine.
• backwards: a word used by lord john russell against the irish meaning the opposite of civilised.
• america: five times as many irish people live here than in ireland itself.
• god: some in the british government saw the famine as an act of _