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School: Arklow (B.)

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Arklow, Co. Wicklow
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Gearóid Inglis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0924, Page 19

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    Arklow about the Famine Period.
    (Mrs O'Brien Upper Main Street. aged 95 when she died five years ago.)
    Before the famine years a court used to be held in the old Ormonde Castle for the recovery of small debts. It was held six times a year.
    The herrings deserted the Arklow coast about 6 or 7 years before the famine and soupers were very active and the people were in a very bad way though they held on to their religion.
    Dan O'Connell visited the town when I was a little girl and I heard him spakin [?] from the window of Kinsellas Hotel (now Brennan's Grocery Establishment Main St.)
    A fleet of the Arklow fishing boats went to Dublin to one of his meetings too and men and women of the town went in them. I went too. I was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs O Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    95
    Address
    Arklow, Co. Wicklow