Scoil: Lisdoonan

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1. Composition - Famine Times (ar lean)

   

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   of thousands; they perished in the houses, in the fields, by the roadsides, in the ditches, perished from hunger, from cold, but most of all from the famine fever. Here and there by the wayside there lay many living corpses who stared at those who passed by and lay against the ditch to get shelter. At that time they would eat grass and nettles to keep them alive. All the day long carts would be seen moving to the graveyards with loads of dead people uncoffined. There would not be graves made they would be thrown on the top of each other about twenty in every heap and covered with clay.
   In the towns it was even worse. Great fires were kept blazing at the ends of the towns to purify the air. At every watch of the night the priest was called on and as he opened his door two or three corpse-like people fell into his arms.
   A man named Nelson from the parish of

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Ena Mc Cabe

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Corr Mhaí, Co. Mhuineacháin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Owen Mc Cabe

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Corr Mhaí, Co. Mhuineacháin