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School: Ballinacliffy

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Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
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A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 125

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  1. Local Happenings - The Famine 1847

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    People ate water-cress and weeds. You would be digging all day before you would get your dinner of good potatoes. In some cases the people died of fever which they took from the bad food.
    Stories are told of people who had to carry their dead on their backs to the grave yards and bury them without any help or without coffins.
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  2. The Black Flu of Spring 1918

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    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Reid
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Informant
    William Foxe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath