School: Blacklion
- Location:
- An Blaic, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: F. Johnston
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0962, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)some to the poor people who had nothing.
If they had some money they used to buy sacks of rice and boil it, and always had some ready for any hungry person that called.
The farmers used to kill some of their cattle too, but even though they shared every thing they had with the poor starving people, who had nothing, thousands died of starvation, and some of them suffered dreadfully before they died, they used to chew anything at all, even the grass and weeds along the roads, and in the fields. The people had not any food supplied save that which they gathered in the fields
- Collector
- Bobbie Nixon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullán Draighneach, Co. an Chabháin
