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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 240

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    Famine Times (Mary Murphy)
    There was a house in Black Law where a family lived in famine times. The trace of the house is there yet.
    The blight was a kind of black. Then the leaves died away. The potatoes did not rot in the ground. They would not grow any bigger when the blight came on them. Then the people would not have a good crop that year.
    [Got from George W. German, 78, Black Law.]
    The people used to have oaten meal instead of potatoes. The people used to get two meals in the day - one in the middle of the day and another when
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    “The people used to have oaten meal instead of potatoes.”

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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Blackraw, Co. Monaghan