School: Doirín na nDamh (roll number 5348)

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   “Our great grandfathers lived, poor, but honest, hardworking, industrious, religious lives.”

   

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   machines and on very rare occasions they had a scythe; they used to have to mow the hay with a reaping hook or in many cases with a home made knife. They used plant the potatoes with a home-made spade, made by the blacksmith which weighed twelve or fourteen lbs each. They had to draw the farm-yard manure on their backs for a quarter of a mile, without any shoes, but lopeens, and some of the well-off old people wore perk shoes. They lived in houses, not much bigger than kennels; the walls were about four feet high without any window, an imitation of a doorway and a few branches for a door.

   

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   “The places where I live is called Direenacopple.”

   

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   The place where I live is called Direenacopple. It is so called, because long ago the place was all a big wood, and in that wood the priests used to hide their horses in the penal day when there was a price for a priest's head. It was while the priests were saying Mass in another

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lizzie Egan

   Gender

   Female