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School: Boston, Tubber (roll number 10763)

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Boston, Co. Clare
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Thos. Noone
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 085

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    potatoes and the little slits that were cut off the bad potatoes. The year after the famine the people could hardly pick the potatoes they grew so well. The year after the famine the most of the people emigrated to America and to England.
    The people sowed the potatoes in ridges long ago. The food they had during the famine was nettles, cabbage, turnips, salt and they used eat Indian meal, but the English government would not allow the meal to be imported. They wanted the Irish people to die.
    Before the famine there were eight million people in Ireland but after the famine there were only three of four hundred in Ireland.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Fhlannchaidh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Attyslany North, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Michael Joyce
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    26
    Address
    Fiddaun, Co. Galway