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School: Doirín Árd, Béal Átha an Dá Chab (roll number 15969)

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Cappagh More, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Dubhgáin
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  1. The Famine Time (continued)

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    "Thank God" I didn't bury the food. The following year the English men came over and opened copper mines and slate quarries and gave employment to thousands of people and paid them 3d and 4d a day
    The people were so much in the want of food, they used steal milk from their neighbours cows in the night.
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  2. The Famine Time

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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Duggan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreenard, Co. Cork