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School: Dunboyne (roll number 15915)

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Dunboyne, Co. Meath
Teacher:
N.F. Ó Donncha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0688, Page 111

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    The Great Famine
    The Great Famine one of the most terrible events in Irish History began in 1845. It was directly caused by a failure of the crop.
    The potatoe became the chief food of the Irish people about the year 1700. Ever since that time a failure of the potatoe crop always meant misery and starvation.
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      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
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