School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)
- Location:
- Tír Dhá Ghlas, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 318
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“The poorest of the inhabitants - the labourers depending on their day's wages for food - were the first to fall victims to the hunger.”
(continued from previous page)had even a store of meal for stirabout.
One day a poor man named Connell came to the house of Billy Hough (grandfather to the narrator of the story). B. Hough who was kind-hearted asked the man to join them in their meal of stirabout and milk. He did so and ate ravenously the share set before him. As he was leaving the poor man gave thanks thus:
"God bless you Billy Hough, that is the only bit of food that went into my stomach for the last three days."
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“B. Hough knew that a family living near him were suffering from the hunger, but pride kept their wants hidden.”
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“Billy Hough was asked once if he ever felt the hunger of those days.”
Billy Hough was asked once if he ever felt the hunger of those days. He replied that he was forced once to go to his work without his breakfast.