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School: Ceapach an tSeagail

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Ceapaigh an tSeagail, Co. na Gaillimhe
Teacher:
Antoine Ó Monacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0072

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  1. Famine Times (continued)

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    the poor people were in dispair. They had neither food or money to buy anything. The potato was their only hope. Thousands died of sickness and starvation.
    The people used to go to the fields and eat the weeds all sorts of old things. They used to boil them with salt and eat them. When the blight again appeared the whole crop was ruined.
    When the potato crop again failed the hens ceased to lay. The poor people had to sell them to buy a little meal. The famine took the heart out of the people. Every year thousands of young men and women emigrated to America from the Emerald Isle.
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    Topics
    1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. an gorta mór (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Glynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloch Mhic Fhaolaís, Co. na Gaillimhe
    Informant
    Mr Mat Bowes
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloch Mhic Fhaolaís, Co. na Gaillimhe