School: Teach Chaoin (C.) (roll number 6681)

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1. Bad Times in Ireland (continued)

   

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   of a fever called "galair breac". And the bodies were thrown coffinless into one pit
   During the famine Ireland produced enough of corn to support the people but day by day it was shipped off to England
   It was then that Emigration began, millions of people were shipped off to America, but many thousands of them died and were (buir) buried at sea

   From the famine they died in hundreds
   And those that did survive
   Were forced to live on carron
   To keep themselves alive

   No coffin, shroud nor burial ground
   Received their last remains
   But their bodies fair lie sleeping there
   In Erin's fertile plains

   People died in great numbers about Tuam and there was a poorhouse there A man named O'Grady was employed in puting a lot of dead bodies down in a pit.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Fallon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Caltragh, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mr John Harley

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Farmhill, Co. Mayo