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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)

Location:
Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 298

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    doors and let them die of hunger. When they were dead the wicked men buried them in the same hole together without anything over them. The most wealthy people in Ireland were exiled to America. On the way most of them died and were thrown into the sea.
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    In the year 1846 there were eight and a half million people in Ireland. The most of them were very poor and they had nothing to eat only potatoes and milk. They
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Manton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moyneard, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Peggy Manton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moyneard, Co. Tipperary