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 295
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- (continued from previous page)independant for food upon the potatoe crop. The result of the potatoe crop was starvation among the people. As the populatin was almost double what it is now, more than eight and a half million, the disaster in a thickly populated country was fearful. About one million people are estimated to have died of hunger, or of disease, in the famine years and about another million are supposed to have emigrated from Ireland to the United States, Canada, Scotland, England, to escape death from hunger at home.
In these dread famine years the hunger-stricken and fever people for famine fever(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisheen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisheen, Co. Tipperary
