School: Árd Bán (roll number 11904)

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   “The people usen't to get as many kinds of bread in olden times as they get now.”

   

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   potatoe bread. Sometimes this bread is made yet. This is the way they used to bake it. They used to put it into a dish and mix it through other and then they would bake it on a table or a board.

   

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   “Once upon a time a man went away to look for work.”

   

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   Once upon a time a man went away to look for work. He walked on and when night came he got no work and he lay down under bushes till morning. He started to walk again in the morning and about twelve o'clock he met a woman and he told her that he was very poor and he had no money and he was looking for work. The woman told him that she would give him plenty of money if he would do what she would tell him. He said he would and they walked on till they came to a big bush on a hill and the woman said if he would climb this bush he would see a door on the top of it and if he would lift it he

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anna Bella Brogan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   11

   Address

   Tullynaha, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Condy Brogan

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   83

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Tullynaha, Co. Donegal