School: Naomh Pádraig, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 14359)

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1. The Famine Times (continued)

   

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   so I left my home to seek my food. I went to Glentogher to get work on the roads, there was no room. Then I went in there but there was no room." The young man was listening to all this and told him that he was his son.
   Pat was taken away then and there was no more word about him except that he went to America too and lived happily ever after.

   

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2. Famine Times

   

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   Once upon a time in the townland of Tiernaleague there dwelt a man called Jimmie Doherty. He was married and had one son, two years old. He lived on his comfortable farm and had a fair stock of sheep and cows. Then came the blight of the potatoes and his stock all died. His rent and taxes were high and he was unable to pay. Now the English were

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Hirrell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Dennis Bradley

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal