Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
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- Dicky Fitzgerald were an ould man who lived near Bridgetowne (Bridgetown). He was very fond of work and he hated a wet day when he'd have to be idle,
If any people were inside of a wet day when 'twould be near clearing up Dicky would say to them:
"I aint raining now
nor 'taint leaving it alone
But if I wor in your house
I'd go home". - During the famine méal used to be given out in Baldwinstown by a man named John Brown.
Ten of us used go down for the meal. A pound of yellow méal used to be given out to a family of nine or ten.
You could go to the Rails (Receive Holy Communion) after ating it and say you hadn't broke the fast.
I worked with a farmer since I was twelve years of age, and the pay I had(continues on next page)