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School: Drumgossatt (B.) (roll number 14071)

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Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
T. Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0929, Page 288

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    them. In that time hardly any bread could be got to eat. Butter milk and water was all the people had at that time. No person would get any thing to eat or to buy for money or anything else Ireland lost two million people between all that died and left the country and went to America
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    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
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