School: Seana-chaiseal, Maghcromtha (roll number 12510)

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   “A very old woman lived next to me in the townland of Kilnadur.”

   

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   the government party of the country would draft legislation for the reconstruction of houses, which would cost millions of pounds. This money was to be extracted from the people by way of taxation and so be the means of crippling them in after years. The people would get very proud and be jealous of each other and every household would apply for the reconstruction grant. When the housing problem would be finished, the revisions would be ordered by those in power to re-valuate all the holdings. The people would be so over-taxed that the time would come when they would pat the first levy; some would pay the second but nobody would pay the third. the country would get so poor, that the social services of the State could not be maintained, and all the fine buildings would go to ruin. The windows of the houses would be closed with stone and the houses turned into rookeries. Parliamentary politicians would have blindfolded the people to such an extent with false promises that it is then and only then that the people would really know where

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Jeremiah Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilnadur, Co. Cork