Scoil: Bigstone, Baltinglas (uimhir rolla 14643)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Time (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   And our boat is at hand
   To take another exile
   From poor old Ireland.
   The potatoes rotted away in the pits and in the ground. The English sent over Indian meal to Ireland and the people used this instead. It was sent to a man who lived in Graney. His name was Fish Byrne. The people were given a quarter of this meal daily and where there were big families the men used to go to work hungry and leave the food with their wives and children
   In the years before the famine the potatoes were very numerous and the people put them in the ditches to make room for other crops. It is said that the

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. an gorta mór (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Maggie Foley

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   An Carraigín Thuaidh, Co. Chill Dara

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Foley

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   Baineann