Scoil: Portlaoighse (Convent) (uimhir rolla 13386)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Famine (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Irish people. The potato blight comes very suddenly a brown spot was seen on the leaf of the plant after a while a lot of spots were seen on the plants and then the plant fell off. Today they have a way to prevent the blight with stuff bought in chemists' shops, the government started work and gave some employment but it helped the country very little. Roads were built where they were not needed.
   The workmen were that weak for the want of food they could not do work. Large quantities of Indian meal were sent to Ireland but the people could not buy it. The hens stopped laying and the people had to buy a little meal. The poor farmer had only his grain for to pay his rent. The children became very hungry, their mothers were broken hearted they used to go in crowds to the mill to get some meal. The father of the house stayed out till after bedtime not to see the children crying.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Lucy Dunne

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Port Laoise, Co. Laoise

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Thomas Dunne

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Port Laoise, Co. Laoise