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School: St Boden's, Culdaff

Location:
Culdaff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 250

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  1. A Famine Story

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    Long ago the time of the famine the Catholics were dying with hunger. When the Protestants saw that, .. they gathered the people and built a house in Doon, north of Culdaff, and gave the Catholics Protestant Bibles to read and food to eat.
    They all kept the books in the wee house. In the evening the people would gather in and read them.
    One day the priest was passing by going to a sick call and saw the books. He ordered two men with their creels in the bog to burn the book. The men filled the creels with the books and burned them.
    At the time somebody was
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Shiels
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Shiels
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Muff, Co. Donegal