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School: Newtown (roll number 15531)

Location:
Newtown, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Eileen Hughes
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0272, Page 034

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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    The food which the people eat nowadays is very much different fro what they ate long ago. The old people ate three meals a day their breakfast, dinner, and supper. The would eat their breakfast in the morning before they went to work and they brought their lunch with them, then when they went home in the evening they ate their dinner and a while their dinner they ate their supper. No person went to work in the morning without his breakfast. For their breakfast the ate, bread, butter, tea,
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Dublain
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Roscommon