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1. The Famine (continued)

   

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   came lightly at first and the people did not understand what it was but "coming events cast their shadows before." The potatoes were dug and they rotted in heaps. They got very black and still the people continued to eat them. They became so bad that they could not be eaten at all and then the people were badly off. They had grain also but they had to sell it to buy seed potatoes for the next year and to pay the rent. In my district there are ruins of houses which were inhabited before the famine and whose occupants died of hunger. After a long period of starvation the Government Relief came and when it came the quantities given out were very scanty. Before it came the people ate grass, raw turnips all kinds of weeds and rats and mice.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Florrie Bodkin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Glennameeltoge or Midgefield, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   John Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Curry, Co. Roscommon