School: An Currach Mór (roll number 7707)
- Location:
- An Currach Mór, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 318
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- (continued from previous page)In the morning people would go out gathering bliskans and water cress and sour leaves. Many people died during that time. They used eat Indian meal porridge. People used go round stealing vegetables and other things from rich people. People often were found dead on the road side. During that time people died very suddenly. They were buried in the fields because at that time corpses were carried by four or five people on their shouldes. The people were so weak from starvation that they were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Tracey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Na Doiriú, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Michael Tracey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Na Doiriú, Co. na Gaillimhe
