Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. O'Connor Estate during the Famine (continued)

   

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   an oat meal cake, a fat hen,(cooked) a glass of whiskey in a small bottle in case of sea sickness - and they never, never, on any occasion, forgot to bring a bunch of shamrocks and a sod of turf cut from their parents' turf bank.' I ventured to compliment the narrator on her good memory etc.

   "Oh, yes, my memory is good." she replied, "but those things made an impression on me. I got very little schooling. I even read a little, but I never learned to write, and 'tis well known that intelligent people who got no schooling can remember and tell the story of their lives much better than great scholars.

   

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   “What kind of light had the people in those days? was my next question?”

   

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   "We burned chips, we got blocks of bog dale from the bogs and this my father cut into chips. A man living convenient

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script