School: Baile Uí Chróinín (roll number 10594)

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   “The farmers around here and in fact in the surrounding parishes lived very simple and inexpensive lives...”

   

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   to keep back the leaves and ate them.

   

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   “The people got up about four o' clock long ago...”

   

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   The people got up about four o'clock long ago. They got their breakfast about nine, and they worked until then. They had potatoes, and salt, and thick milk for their breakfast. The worked again until they got their dinner about two o'clock. They had thick milk and potatoes then. They had their supper about nine, and they had the same thing again. They had no tea round this district until a ship came inland about seventy five years ago. When they had the tea made then they ate the leaves and threw away the water.

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Higgins

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs M. Higgins

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Farmer's wife

   Address

   Shanahee, Co. Cork