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1. The Famine

   

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   At the time of the Famine people used to eat potatoes three times a day. After it people used to get the yellow meal, and they gave land away for it. The people were so hungry that used to eat potatoes out of the clay. A man named Roady gave three fields to Mr. Curtain Skeheenarinky for a bag of meal he ate so much of it that he stood at the door and fell out on the road dead, and soon afterwards his wife Sheila died. And ever since the place is called Sheila Rody's

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Pat Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   54

   Address

   Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary

2. Potato Digging

   

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   The men would be out in the field waiting for the dawn until they would go digging and while they were at their breakfast,one should go out keeping away the crows

   

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