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School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)

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Cloyne, Co. Cork
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E. Geeleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 248

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  1. Proverbs

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Lane
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    James Lane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Maytown, Co. Cork

  2. Food in Olden Times

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    Long ago, people had three meals a day. For their breakfast they had a bowl of porridge, for dinner they had potatoes and skimmed milk and for their supper they had wheaten bread and thick milk. They never ate meat only at Christmas and then they killed their own pig. They got up at half-past six and they went out working and at eight o'clock they came in for breakfast.
    They never used table-cloths long ago, but the tables were scrubbed very white. They had dinner at twelve o'clock every day, and the potatoes
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