It's 1848, you are a landlord of a small estate in the west of Ireland, one of the worst-hit regions during the Great Irish Famine. There are 80 families on your estate. Due to successive bad harvests, theft on your lands has increased and some tenants cannot pay the rent. As a result, you are increasingly in debt. What actions do you take? 

• Evict your tenants and destroy their houses as a lesson to others because you cannot afford to help your tenants if they don’t pay rent.

• Subsidise your tenants' emigration to foreign lands. 

• Use the famine as an opportunity to consolidate small pieces of land into bigger farms which will mean more food for those who get to stay.

• Reduce your rents by ten per cent. 

• Report your tenants to the Irish Constabulary for theft.

It's 1846, you are a fourth-class tenant living in a one-bedroom mud hut in the west of Ireland, one of the worst-hit areas during the Famine. You have 5 children aged 1, 4, 7, 11, 14. Your crops have been hit by potato blight and you have no way to pay rent or feed your family. What do you do? 

• Move your family to a workhouse knowing that you will be split up and possibly never see one another again.

• Borrow money to pay for some of your family to emigrate.

• Plead with your landlord to help you and your family by reducing the rate of rent.

• Stay on your land for one more year, praying for a successful harvest the following year.

• Sign up for a public works scheme. 

It is 1845, you are a British government official tasked with deciding what to do about the Great Irish Famine. What do you recommend? 

• Create public works schemes through a Public Works Bill.

• Import food from abroad to sell to the poor e.g. Indian meal (corn/maize meal). 

• Increase the number of the Irish Constabulary to deal with unrest in the countryside.

• Advise that nothing further is done, continuing a laissez-faire approach. 

• Increase deportations for those found guilty of crimes, including the theft of food and cattle. 

By 1847 your family has either perished or emigrated to either Britain, the USA or Canada. You have just been evicted, what do you decide? 

• Refuse to leave your home and write to family members abroad for financial help knowing that you'll likely be arrested and your home destroyed.

• Join a workhouse.

• Convert to Protestantism in the hope that it will give you better access to food but knowing you might be ostracised by your community for doing so.

• Resort to crime to sustain yourself knowing that the punishments are harsh if you are caught including hard labour and deportation.

• Give up your native Irish language in favour of English to further your job prospects.