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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)

Location:
Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 294

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  1. The Local Landlords (continued)

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    Often when a shipload of American corn was coming into the Irish people, they - the Irish - sent out a load of corn to England. They had to sell all they had to pay the landlords.
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  2. Famine Times

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    The famine was the greatest disaster that the people in Ireland ever beheld. It occurred in the years 1846 and 1847 caused by the blight that destroyed the potato crop in the summer of 1846. As the Irish people unfortunately, left themselves
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisheen, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr John Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisheen, Co. Tipperary