Scoil: Carnalassan (uimhir rolla 6106)

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1. Famine Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In the years 1846 and 1847 a terrible famine occurred in Ireland, owing to the failure of the potato crop, which was the principal food of the Irish people. Of course there were rich people who were not depending on the crops, but it meant starvation for the poorer or farming class.
   The was a population of eight millions and after two years of famine there were only four millions left, the others had died of starvation or gone to America. To this day we can see the ruins of their houses, and old people can tell us how they had to leave their houses and lands there in the bad times. They had not the seed to put in the land, nor the strength to sow it. Famine and fever raged all over the country. The

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   Topaicí

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   John O Dowd

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   56

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Rathconor, Co. Roscommon