School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 366
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- 3. There was a plague of flu in our district in the year 1936. Nearly everyone in the district took it. It started with a dizziness in the head. Then a cough began and a person had to stay in bed because if they got up they would be falling with the dizziness in their head. I was in bed for three days only, but my sisters were in bed for a fortnight. My father and mother took it also. In my grandfather's all of them took it but one boy and my mother had to make bread and send it to her, and from them we took it.
- Collector
- Christina Toman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brislagh, Co. Roscommon
