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1. Famine Times (continued)

   

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   people ate nettles and other weeds until the government supplied rations of Indian meal. Government relief reached the district by allowing emigration to take place to America and by freeing the emigrants passages. People died in great numbers. They were found dead in fields, houses and even on the roadside. Great sickness followed the hunger A dreadful disease called cholera came. Pauling Burke, Nutgrove. Information got from, Michael Burke Age 30 years

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2. Famine Times

   

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   Who is Ireland's enemy?
   I
   Not Germany, Austria, Russie, France or Spain.
   That robbed or reaved this land of ours.
   They forged for her no chains.
   II
   But England of the wil word that crafty treacherous foe.
   It was England robbed our mother land.
   It was England laid her low.
   III
   Who robbed our land in '47 of all its stores

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