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School: Creach na mBearna

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Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 127

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  1. The Fields (continued)

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  2. The Year of the Bad Times

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    The year of the Bad times.
    The year of the famine was always referred to by the old people as the year of the bad times.
    Often on a Winters night when ramblers sat round the fire they used tell many heart rending stories of want and hunger, that their parents and others suffered. One woman a Mrs Celia McLoughlin, said she had not a bite of any kind of food nor a "sup" for her child who was crying with hunger only the chick-weed that grew on the thatch of her house, and water.
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