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School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)

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Abbey, Co. Galway
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Séan de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0052, Page 0429

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  1. The Great Famine

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    1. The great famine began in 1845. It was directly caused by a failure of the potato crop. The potato became the chief food of the Irish People about the year 1700.
    2. Ever since that time a failure of the potato crop always meant misery and starvation. There did a good deal of people die in Abbey. Between 1800 and 1845 there were potato famines in several districts, but the famine which began 1845 was far worse than any of these.
    3. In that year potato blight appeared in Ireland for the first time. Thousants of died of sickness and starvation in the winter of 1845-6
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Madden
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barnaboy, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Bob Larkin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Barnaboy, Co. Galway