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School: Coillte Críotáin

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Erris, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 304

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  1. The Great Famine (continued)

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    eat along with them.
    Hundreds of thousands of people, locally, died in the famine year. They sold all they had and bought their passage to America.
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  2. The Great Famine

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    4. The Famine year was in 1846-47. Some of the old people or the most of them have stories about the Famine. All round this part of the country, it had much effect on the people and crop. People who were not able to keep themselves in their
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Tivenan
    Gender
    Male