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School: Ballinacliffy

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Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 125

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 125

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  1. Local Happenings - The Famine 1847

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    People ate water-cress and weeds. You would be digging all day before you would get your dinner of good potatoes. In some cases the people died of fever which they took from the bad food.
    Stories are told of people who had to carry their dead on their backs to the grave yards and bury them without any help or without coffins.
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  2. The Black Flu of Spring 1918

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    This epidemic swept through this district and attacked young and old. Even the strongest young men were swept away by it.
    Most of the deaths were pneumonia. Some of the bodies turned black after death. Even those who recovered were not the same for years. Whole households
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