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School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

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Drom, Co. Tipperary
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Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 316

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  1. Local Poets (continued)

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    sung by the people in this district.
    About one hundred years ago a man by the name of John Bourke who was a poet lived in the parish of Drom, Bo.Tipperary. He tried to banish talo from a house by singing a song, but failed.
    Una Costello, kilvilcorris, Drom, Thurles, Co. Tipper.
    Material obtained from:-
    James Kennedy, Kilvilcorris, Drom, Thurles. Co. Tipper.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Famine Times - Blight

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    Famine Times-Blight
    There was a great famine in this country from 1846 to 1867. The blight came from a heavy Fog and fire going with it. It was in the pits that the potatoes decayed. The union supplied the people with seed potatoes for the following year. A man by the name of Muttay fed the people in this district, as he used get yellow meal from the union and he used distribute it amount the people. No farmers got the meal but the poor peoples.
    Rita Cahill, Droms, Thurles, Co, Tipperary. Material obtained from:-
    Con Murrary, Drom, Thurles,Co, Tipperary.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Cahill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Con Murray
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary