School: St Mary's, Buncrana

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   “When he was a small boy he said he was hired and had to work very hard.”

   

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   For a while the kael were plentiful, and were boiled every day, and a large dish of them put on the table. Salt was mixed with these, and they ate the kael to their potatoes.
   On the evening they got oatcake and milk; of ten at night potatoes were boiled to have a roughness.
   The dinner was made ready for one oclock, and the potatoes were poured into a basket, and each sat round.
   Each person for a mug of buttermilk, and perhaps an onion, for onions were grown on the farm.
   When work was at the hardest the man of the house got a raw egg beaten in a bowl, as kitchen for his (potaoes) potatoes.
   There were no puddings or tea and fancies. One day when he was at the kael and potatoes the master walked in and stood for a minute or two looking around him. The master clapper him on the back, and said the good food was putting a bone in hime. "Yes, sir" said he "but I get no beef." "O well" said the master at the time of the hiring _ "when I told you that you would

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Buncrana, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mr James Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   78

   Occupation

   Driver

   Address

   Buncrana, Co. Donegal