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School: Drumgossatt (C.)

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Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
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Áine Nic Ghráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 116

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    famine the government started to give relief, but this only helped a few. The government then began to distribute food and thus saved many lives. Hundreds of thousands in the famine years seeing nothing but starvation for them at home sold all they had and went to America. those who remained at home had no heart, nobody could rouse them.
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