history

• Colonisation


  Getting outposts of land away from the mother country into other parts of the world, to conquer them and make outposts where they can say to the people in that particular area, "hey have I got a deal for you", usually coming off badly, finding new markets, new resources
• Imperialism


  Widespread desire of powers (mostly European) to spread their ideas + control to other parts of the world. It's about the desire to find more resources
• People in Ireland don't want to leave


  Forced to leave or have a free will then forced to go because there's not enough land
• Potato Blight


  People move for greater opportunities
• Push factors for migration

  • Jobs: The new approaches to farming that defined the Agricultural Revolution were beneficial for the landowners, but forced many peasants off the lands that their ancestors had farmed
  • Famine: In the 1840s, the potato crop in Ireland failed several years in a row
• Pull factors for migration

  • Jobs: The new approaches to farming that defined the Agricultural Revolution were beneficial for the landowners, but forced many peasants off the lands that their ancestors had farmed
  • Famine: In the 1840s, the potato crop in Ireland failed several years in a row
• England show on ancestry that they have not moved from anywhere else that they're DNA findings are boring
• Allow men and women to tour the continent which they still do and you end up with books like Frankenstein. Henry James's novels, those sorts of things